The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 15J. Johnson, 1803 |
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Page 40
... THEOBALD . • To gain the love- ] The old copy reads - To the love . STEEVENS . For the infertion of the word gain I am anfwerable . From the correfponding paffage in Holinthed , it appears evidently to have been omitted through the ...
... THEOBALD . • To gain the love- ] The old copy reads - To the love . STEEVENS . For the infertion of the word gain I am anfwerable . From the correfponding paffage in Holinthed , it appears evidently to have been omitted through the ...
Page 51
... THEOBALD . Sir T. Hanmer has mended it more elegantly , but with greater violence : 8 As firft , good company , then good wine , & c . JOHNSON . a running banquet- ] A running banquet , literally fpeaking , is a hafty refreshment , as ...
... THEOBALD . Sir T. Hanmer has mended it more elegantly , but with greater violence : 8 As firft , good company , then good wine , & c . JOHNSON . a running banquet- ] A running banquet , literally fpeaking , is a hafty refreshment , as ...
Page 77
... Theobald . MALONE . 6 To give her the avaunt ! ] To fend her away contemptu- oufly ; to pronounce against her a sentence of ejection . JOHNSON . " Yet , if that quarrel , fortune , ] She calls Fortune a quarrel or arrow , from her ...
... Theobald . MALONE . 6 To give her the avaunt ! ] To fend her away contemptu- oufly ; to pronounce against her a sentence of ejection . JOHNSON . " Yet , if that quarrel , fortune , ] She calls Fortune a quarrel or arrow , from her ...
Page 84
... THEOBALD . I a gem , To lighten all this ifle ? ] Perhaps alluding to the carbuncle , a gem fuppofed to have intrinfick light , and to fhine in the dark : any other gem may reflect light , but cannot give it . JOHNSON . ANNE . My honour ...
... THEOBALD . I a gem , To lighten all this ifle ? ] Perhaps alluding to the carbuncle , a gem fuppofed to have intrinfick light , and to fhine in the dark : any other gem may reflect light , but cannot give it . JOHNSON . ANNE . My honour ...
Page 99
... THEobald . 8 Scruple , and prick , ] Prick of confcience was , the term in confeffion . JOHNSON . The expreffion is from Holinfhed , where the King says : " The fpecial cause that moved me unto this matter was a cer- taine fcrupulofitie ...
... THEobald . 8 Scruple , and prick , ] Prick of confcience was , the term in confeffion . JOHNSON . The expreffion is from Holinfhed , where the King says : " The fpecial cause that moved me unto this matter was a cer- taine fcrupulofitie ...
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Achilles Æneas againſt AGAM Agamemnon Ajax alfo anſwer Antony and Cleopatra becauſe buſineſs Calchas cardinal Creffida CRES defire Diomed doth Duke eringoes Exeunt faid fame fays fecond feems fenfe fhall fhould firft firſt folio fome fpeech ftand ftate ftill ftrong fuch fuppofe fweet fword GENT Grecian Greeks Hanmer hath heaven HECT Hector Helen highneſs himſelf Holinfhed honour inftance itſelf JOHNSON KATH King Henry King Richard III king's lady lord Lord Chamberlain MALONE means meaſure Menelaus moft moſt muft muſt Neftor Neoptolemus noble obferves old copy paffage Pandarus Patroclus perfon play pleaſe pleaſure praiſe prefent Priam prince purpoſe quarto queen reafon ſay Shakspeare ſhall ſhe Sir Thomas Hanmer ſpeak STEEVENS thee thefe THEOBALD THER Therfites theſe thofe thoſe thou Troilus Trojan Troy Ulyffes ULYSS uſed WARBURTON whofe Wolfey word