The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 17J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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Page 59
... metre . STEEVENS . -thy wan'd lip ! ] In the old edition it is thy wand lip ! Perhaps , for fond lip , or warm lip , says Dr. Johnson . Wand , if it stand , is either a corruption of wan , the adjective , or a contraction of wanned , or ...
... metre . STEEVENS . -thy wan'd lip ! ] In the old edition it is thy wand lip ! Perhaps , for fond lip , or warm lip , says Dr. Johnson . Wand , if it stand , is either a corruption of wan , the adjective , or a contraction of wanned , or ...
Page 61
... than from Egypt to Rome . STEEVENS . I could have given & c . ] I cannot help supposing , on ac- count of the present irregularity of metre , that the name of A better ear . - Menas , I did not SC . I. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA . 61.
... than from Egypt to Rome . STEEVENS . I could have given & c . ] I cannot help supposing , on ac- count of the present irregularity of metre , that the name of A better ear . - Menas , I did not SC . I. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA . 61.
Page 71
... both to the sense and metre . The plain meaning of Antony is - I wish you had my wife's spirit in another wife ; -i.e . in a wife of your own . STEEVENS . CES . I wrote to you , When rioting in SC . II . ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA . 71.
... both to the sense and metre . The plain meaning of Antony is - I wish you had my wife's spirit in another wife ; -i.e . in a wife of your own . STEEVENS . CES . I wrote to you , When rioting in SC . II . ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA . 71.
Page 75
... metre , there- fore , is not defective . MALONE . That the metre is completed by reading your as a dissyllable , my ear , at least , is unconvinced . STEEVENS . As Enobarbus , to whom this line belongs , generally speaks in plain prose ...
... metre , there- fore , is not defective . MALONE . That the metre is completed by reading your as a dissyllable , my ear , at least , is unconvinced . STEEVENS . As Enobarbus , to whom this line belongs , generally speaks in plain prose ...
Page 77
... metre . We might read , I think , with less alliteration - as tales . STEEVENS . 9 - already . ] This adverb may be fairly considered as an interpolation . Without enforcing the sense , it violates the mea- sure . STEEVENS . May I never ...
... metre . We might read , I think , with less alliteration - as tales . STEEVENS . 9 - already . ] This adverb may be fairly considered as an interpolation . Without enforcing the sense , it violates the mea- sure . STEEVENS . May I never ...
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Alexas ancient Antony better called CHAR Charmian CLEO Cleopatra Cordelia Coriolanus CORN Cymbeline daughters death doth Edgar edition editors Edmund Egypt emendation Enobarbus Enter Eros Exeunt Exit eyes father folio reads fool fortune give Gloster gods Goneril Hanmer hath hear heart honour IRAS JOHNSON Julius Cæsar KENT King Henry King Lear knave lady LEAR lord Macbeth madam MALONE Mark Antony MASON means MESS metre never night noble o'the Octavia old copy old reading omitted Othello passage perhaps play Plutarch poet Pompey poor pray Proculeius quartos read queen Regan RITSON says scene second folio seems sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's signifies Sir Thomas Hanmer speak speech STEEVENS suppose sword tell thee THEOBALD thine thing thou art thought Timon of Athens TOLLET Troilus and Cressida WARBURTON word ΕΝΟ Ром