The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 10J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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Page 22
... Theobald has endeavoured to improve the sense of this passage , by altering the punctuation thus : they were As cannons overcharg'd ; with double cracks So they redoubled strokes . He declares , with some degree of exultation , that he ...
... Theobald has endeavoured to improve the sense of this passage , by altering the punctuation thus : they were As cannons overcharg'd ; with double cracks So they redoubled strokes . He declares , with some degree of exultation , that he ...
Page 34
... THEOBald . Mr. Theobald has very justly explained forbid by accursed , but without giving any reason of his interpretation . To bid is originally to pray , as in this Saxon fragment : He ir pir bit bore , & c . 7 He is wise that prays ...
... THEOBald . Mr. Theobald has very justly explained forbid by accursed , but without giving any reason of his interpretation . To bid is originally to pray , as in this Saxon fragment : He ir pir bit bore , & c . 7 He is wise that prays ...
Page 37
... Theobald . The following passage in Bellenden's translation of Hector Boethius , fully supports the emendation : Be aventure Makbeth and Banquho were passand to Fores , quhair kyng Duncane hapnit to be for ye tyme , and met be ye gait ...
... Theobald . The following passage in Bellenden's translation of Hector Boethius , fully supports the emendation : Be aventure Makbeth and Banquho were passand to Fores , quhair kyng Duncane hapnit to be for ye tyme , and met be ye gait ...
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... THEobald . The old copies read— " on the insane root . " REED . Shakspeare alludes to the qualities anciently ascribed to hem- lock . So , in Greene's Never too late , 1616 : " You gaz'd against the sun , and so blemished your sight ...
... THEobald . The old copies read— " on the insane root . " REED . Shakspeare alludes to the qualities anciently ascribed to hem- lock . So , in Greene's Never too late , 1616 : " You gaz'd against the sun , and so blemished your sight ...
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... Theobald's emendation , un- doubtedly right . The old edition has school , and Dr. Warburton shelve . JOHNSON . By the shoal of time , our author means the shallow ford of life , between us and the abyss of eternity . STEEVENS . ' We'd ...
... Theobald's emendation , un- doubtedly right . The old edition has school , and Dr. Warburton shelve . JOHNSON . By the shoal of time , our author means the shallow ford of life , between us and the abyss of eternity . STEEVENS . ' We'd ...
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