The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 17C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
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... doubt on the question.— I will however mention one mode by which it may be easily as- certained . Let the reader only peruse a few lines of Appius and Virginia , Tancred and Gismund , The Battle of Alcazar , Jeronimo , Selimus Emperor ...
... doubt on the question.— I will however mention one mode by which it may be easily as- certained . Let the reader only peruse a few lines of Appius and Virginia , Tancred and Gismund , The Battle of Alcazar , Jeronimo , Selimus Emperor ...
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... doubt that the writer of this play had read Euripides in the original . Mr. Steevens justly observes in a subsequent note near the end of this scene , that there is " a plain allusion to the Ajax of Sophocles , of which no translation ...
... doubt that the writer of this play had read Euripides in the original . Mr. Steevens justly observes in a subsequent note near the end of this scene , that there is " a plain allusion to the Ajax of Sophocles , of which no translation ...
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... doubt , of one or other of the writers al- ready named , as a genuine and not unfavourable specimen . Indeed , I should take Kyd to have been the author of Titus Andronicus , because he seems to delight in murders and scraps of Latin ...
... doubt , of one or other of the writers al- ready named , as a genuine and not unfavourable specimen . Indeed , I should take Kyd to have been the author of Titus Andronicus , because he seems to delight in murders and scraps of Latin ...
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... doubt but the text is as the author wrote it . Let him answer for the blunder . In a subsequent line Titus sup- poses himself his own executioner : 4 " Now all the service I require of them " & c . Malone . O , that delightful engine of ...
... doubt but the text is as the author wrote it . Let him answer for the blunder . In a subsequent line Titus sup- poses himself his own executioner : 4 " Now all the service I require of them " & c . Malone . O , that delightful engine of ...
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... doubt was an error of the press for Lest . The editor of the folio finding the sentiment as exhibited in the quarto , in consequence of this error , not proper in the mouth of a Roman , for Roman lord substituted Goth . In correcting ...
... doubt was an error of the press for Lest . The editor of the folio finding the sentiment as exhibited in the quarto , in consequence of this error , not proper in the mouth of a Roman , for Roman lord substituted Goth . In correcting ...
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Page 195 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?
Page 193 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Page 149 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 250 - And brass eternal slave to mortal rage ; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state...
Page 273 - Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety : other women cloy The appetites they feed : but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies : for vilest things Become themselves in her; that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.
Page 288 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 247 - tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, Carry them here and there ; jumping o'er times ; Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass...