The Works of William Shakespeare: The Plays Ed. from the Folio of MDCXXIII, with Various Readings from All the Editions and All the Commentators, Notes, Introductory Remarks, a Historical Sketch of the Text, an Account of the Rise and Progress of the English Drama, a Memoir of the Poet, and an Essay Upon the Genius, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1871 |
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... language which took place during Shakespeare's career as a drama- tist , and which the printers of the folio of 1623 , with all their negligence in other respects , carefully pre- served . The editors A certain class of merely ...
... language which took place during Shakespeare's career as a drama- tist , and which the printers of the folio of 1623 , with all their negligence in other respects , carefully pre- served . The editors A certain class of merely ...
Page xxiv
... language except as a contraction of Philomath . ' Yet when we read , in Mercutio's description of Queen Mab's equipage , " the lash of philom , " we see that the compositor merely put in type a mispronun- ciation of film , ' fillum ...
... language except as a contraction of Philomath . ' Yet when we read , in Mercutio's description of Queen Mab's equipage , " the lash of philom , " we see that the compositor merely put in type a mispronun- ciation of film , ' fillum ...
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... pos- session of ordinary intelligence and knowledge of our language and literature by the reader has been as- * Tracts and Miscellaneous Criticisms , p . 89 . sumed , but no special knowledge , or what may PREFACE . xxvii.
... pos- session of ordinary intelligence and knowledge of our language and literature by the reader has been as- * Tracts and Miscellaneous Criticisms , p . 89 . sumed , but no special knowledge , or what may PREFACE . xxvii.
Page xxix
... language . No exercise of the editorial function seems to me so superfluous , I will say so impertinent . That a recent commentator should complain , as one , learned if not appreciative , has complained , that in these passages " No ...
... language . No exercise of the editorial function seems to me so superfluous , I will say so impertinent . That a recent commentator should complain , as one , learned if not appreciative , has complained , that in these passages " No ...
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... language as that of which these passages are examples , had better lay down Shakespeare , or any true poet , as a sealed book . To explain such phrases is to insult the reader by implying his incapacity of poetic apprehension ; while to ...
... language as that of which these passages are examples , had better lay down Shakespeare , or any true poet , as a sealed book . To explain such phrases is to insult the reader by implying his incapacity of poetic apprehension ; while to ...
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Page 186 - And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted, And right perfection wrongfully disgraced, And strength by limping sway disabled, And art made tongue-tied by authority...
Page 180 - O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses; But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest...
Page ccii - Save base authority from others' books. • These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are.
Page 169 - O! then vouchsafe me but this loving thought: 'Had my friend's Muse grown with this growing age, A dearer birth than this his love had brought, To march in ranks of better equipage: But since he died and poets better prove, Theirs for their style I'll read, his for his love'.
Page 217 - Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait, On purpose laid to make the taker mad : Mad in pursuit, and in possession so ; Had, having...
Page 162 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day ? Thou art more lovely and more temperate : Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date...
Page xciii - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Page 218 - Coral is far more red than her lips' red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound...
Page lxii - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James!
Page ccxxii - But, look, the morn in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill.