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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... speech of Rumour is not inelegant or unpoetical , but it is wholly useless , since we are told nothing which the first scene does not clearly and naturally discover . The only end of such prologues is to inform the audience of some ...
... speech of Rumour is not inelegant or unpoetical , but it is wholly useless , since we are told nothing which the first scene does not clearly and naturally discover . The only end of such prologues is to inform the audience of some ...
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... speech , might be imputed to the distraction of Northumberland's mind ; but the calmness of the reflection , con- tained in the last lines , seems not much to countenance such a supposition . I will venture to distribute this passage in ...
... speech , might be imputed to the distraction of Northumberland's mind ; but the calmness of the reflection , con- tained in the last lines , seems not much to countenance such a supposition . I will venture to distribute this passage in ...
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... speech is extremely striking . There is no need to suppose it exactly philosophical ; darkness , in poetry , may be ab- sence of eyes , as well as privation of light . Yet we may remark , that by an ancient opinion it has been held ...
... speech is extremely striking . There is no need to suppose it exactly philosophical ; darkness , in poetry , may be ab- sence of eyes , as well as privation of light . Yet we may remark , that by an ancient opinion it has been held ...
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... speech , are not to be found in the first editions , till that in the folio of 1623. A very great number of other lines in this play were inserted after the first edition in like manner , but of such spirit and mastery generally , that ...
... speech , are not to be found in the first editions , till that in the folio of 1623. A very great number of other lines in this play were inserted after the first edition in like manner , but of such spirit and mastery generally , that ...
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... speech was taken up o ' the poet too , which if he never be paid for now , ' tis no matter . " STEEVENS . 65 8the horn of abundance , ] So , in Pasquil's Night - Cap , 1612 , p . 43 : - " But chiefly citizens , upon whose crowne ...
... speech was taken up o ' the poet too , which if he never be paid for now , ' tis no matter . " STEEVENS . 65 8the horn of abundance , ] So , in Pasquil's Night - Cap , 1612 , p . 43 : - " But chiefly citizens , upon whose crowne ...
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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.