The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 17F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... ancient custom of vail - staff , 66 Keep it still ; claim thou privilege from me : " If any ask a reason , why ? or how ? 66 Say , English Edward vail'd his staff to you . " See vol . ix . p . 178 , n . 4 . STEEVENS . ' Having been well ...
... ancient custom of vail - staff , 66 Keep it still ; claim thou privilege from me : " If any ask a reason , why ? or how ? 66 Say , English Edward vail'd his staff to you . " See vol . ix . p . 178 , n . 4 . STEEVENS . ' Having been well ...
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... ancient language , signifies bodily pain , as well as sor- So , in A Treatise of Sundrie Diseases , & c . by T. T. 1591 : he being at that time griped sore , and having grief in his lower bellie . ' Dolor ventris is , by our old writers ...
... ancient language , signifies bodily pain , as well as sor- So , in A Treatise of Sundrie Diseases , & c . by T. T. 1591 : he being at that time griped sore , and having grief in his lower bellie . ' Dolor ventris is , by our old writers ...
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... ancient opinion it has been held , that if the human race , for whom the world was made , were extirpated , the whole system of sublunary nature would cease . JOHNSON . A passage resembling this speech , but feeble in comparison , is ...
... ancient opinion it has been held , that if the human race , for whom the world was made , were extirpated , the whole system of sublunary nature would cease . JOHNSON . A passage resembling this speech , but feeble in comparison , is ...
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... ancient , as appears by Artemi- dorus , who says : Προειπεῖν ἀντῶ ὅτι ἡ γυνή σου πορνεύσει , καὶ τὸ λεγομενον , κέρατα αυτῶ ποιήσει , και ὄντως ἀπέβη . Όνειροι . lib . ii . cap . 12. And he copied from those before him . WARBURTON . The ...
... ancient , as appears by Artemi- dorus , who says : Προειπεῖν ἀντῶ ὅτι ἡ γυνή σου πορνεύσει , καὶ τὸ λεγομενον , κέρατα αυτῶ ποιήσει , και ὄντως ἀπέβη . Όνειροι . lib . ii . cap . 12. And he copied from those before him . WARBURTON . The ...
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... ancient language , however , single often means small , as in the instance of beer ; the strong and weak being denominated double and single beer . So , in The Captain , by Beaumont and Fletcher : " sufficient single beer , as cold as ...
... ancient language , however , single often means small , as in the instance of beer ; the strong and weak being denominated double and single beer . So , in The Captain , by Beaumont and Fletcher : " sufficient single beer , as cold as ...
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alludes ancient appears BARD Bardolph battle of Agincourt believe Ben Jonson blood BOSWELL brother called captain Colevile Constable of France crown dead death doth DOUCE duke Earl edition editors emendation England English Enter Exeunt Falstaff father fear Fluellen folio former France French give grace Hanmer Harfleur Harry hast hath heart heaven Henry VI Holinshed honour HOST humour JOHNSON Julius Cæsar Justice KATH King Henry King Henry IV king's kirtle knight look lord Love's Labour's Lost majesty MALONE MASON master means merry never noble observed old copy peace perhaps PIST Pistol play poet POINS Pope pray prince quarto RITSON says scene seems sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's SHAL Shallow signifies Sir Dagonet sir John soldier speak speech STEEVENS suppose sword tell thee THEOBALD thing thou thought unto WARBURTON Westmoreland word
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Page 105 - 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 deaf ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes...
Page 339 - Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war. And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding— which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
Page 261 - Hear him but reason in divinity, And, all-admiring, with an inward wish You would desire the king were made a prelate : Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would say, it hath been...
Page 284 - Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth : your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all posterity, That wear this...
Page 417 - We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition...
Page 105 - O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 417 - This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered...
Page 416 - Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made • And crowns for convoy put into his purse : We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us.
Page 23 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me. The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent anything that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is invented on me: I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Page 112 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie in treasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...