The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 17F. C. and J. Rivington; T. Egerton; J. Cuthell; Scatcherd and Letterman; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Cadell and Davies ... [and 28 others in London], J. Deighton and sons, Cambridge: Wilson and son, York: and Stirling and Slade, Fairbairn and Anderson, and D. Brown, Edinburgh., 1821 |
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... POPE . 4 - 4 bpA Y the DROOPING West , ] A passage in Macbeth will best explain the force of this epithet : 1 So Good things of day begin to droop and drowse , 150g 10 And night's black agents to their preys do rouse . " om MALONE ...
... POPE . 4 - 4 bpA Y the DROOPING West , ] A passage in Macbeth will best explain the force of this epithet : 1 So Good things of day begin to droop and drowse , 150g 10 And night's black agents to their preys do rouse . " om MALONE ...
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... POPE . To this note I have nothing to add , but that the editor speaks of more editions than I believe him to have seen , there having been but one edition yet discovered by me that precedes the first folio . JOHNSON . Dr. Johnson was ...
... POPE . To this note I have nothing to add , but that the editor speaks of more editions than I believe him to have seen , there having been but one edition yet discovered by me that precedes the first folio . JOHNSON . Dr. Johnson was ...
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... Pope reads with the folio , 1623 , - - " evil angel . " STEEVENS . What a precious collator has Mr. Pope approved himself in this passage ! Besides , if this were the true reading , Falstaff could not have made the witty and humorous ...
... Pope reads with the folio , 1623 , - - " evil angel . " STEEVENS . What a precious collator has Mr. Pope approved himself in this passage ! Besides , if this were the true reading , Falstaff could not have made the witty and humorous ...
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... Pope altered thus : " Yes , if this present quality of war 66 Impede the instant act . " This has been silently followed by Mr. Theobald , Sir Thomas Hanmer , and Dr. Warburton ; but the corruption is certainly deeper , for , in the ...
... Pope altered thus : " Yes , if this present quality of war 66 Impede the instant act . " This has been silently followed by Mr. Theobald , Sir Thomas Hanmer , and Dr. Warburton ; but the corruption is certainly deeper , for , in the ...
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... Pope's reading is still less reasonable . JOHNSON . I have adopted Dr. Johnson's emendation , though I think we might read : 66 66 - if this present quality of war Impel the instant action . " Hastings says , it never yet did hurt to ...
... Pope's reading is still less reasonable . JOHNSON . I have adopted Dr. Johnson's emendation , though I think we might read : 66 66 - if this present quality of war Impel the instant action . " Hastings says , it never yet did hurt to ...
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Page 103 - 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 335 - 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 257 - 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 280 - 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 413 - 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 413 - 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 412 - 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.