The Plays of William Shakespeare ...T. Bensley, 1803 |
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... obscure , and doubtful . Line . 276. she that from Naples JOHNSON . Can have no note , & c . ] Shakespeare's great ignorance of geography is not more conspicuous in any instance than in this , where he supposes Tunis and Naples to have ...
... obscure , and doubtful . Line . 276. she that from Naples JOHNSON . Can have no note , & c . ] Shakespeare's great ignorance of geography is not more conspicuous in any instance than in this , where he supposes Tunis and Naples to have ...
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... obscure : the putter out must be a traveller , else how could he give this account ? the five for one is money to be received by him at his return . Mr. Theobald has well illus- trated this passage by a quotation from Jonson . JOHNSON ...
... obscure : the putter out must be a traveller , else how could he give this account ? the five for one is money to be received by him at his return . Mr. Theobald has well illus- trated this passage by a quotation from Jonson . JOHNSON ...
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... obscure , and probably corrupted passage , that our author aimed a satire on Sir Thomas Lucy , by whom he had been prosecuted in the younger part of his life for a misdemeanor , under the character of Justice Shallow . Line 35. The ...
... obscure , and probably corrupted passage , that our author aimed a satire on Sir Thomas Lucy , by whom he had been prosecuted in the younger part of his life for a misdemeanor , under the character of Justice Shallow . Line 35. The ...
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... obscure ; but the meaning is , though love permit reason to tell what is fit to be done , he seldom follows its advice . --By precisian , is meant one who pretends to a more than ordinary degree of virtue and sanctity . On which account ...
... obscure ; but the meaning is , though love permit reason to tell what is fit to be done , he seldom follows its advice . --By precisian , is meant one who pretends to a more than ordinary degree of virtue and sanctity . On which account ...
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... obscure ; we might read , Come , a kiss then , sweet , and twenty . Yet I know not whether the present reading be not right : for in some counties sweet , and twenty , whatever be the meaning , is a phrase of endearment . Line 149 ...
... obscure ; we might read , Come , a kiss then , sweet , and twenty . Yet I know not whether the present reading be not right : for in some counties sweet , and twenty , whatever be the meaning , is a phrase of endearment . Line 149 ...
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Page 52 - With coral clasps and amber studs — And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
Page 53 - The rest complains of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward Winter reckoning yields: A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither...
Page 274 - Thus thou must do, if thou have it'; And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear, And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
Page 279 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace. With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Page 667 - That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Page 94 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased ; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 421 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds: I will be like the most High.
Page 287 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and howlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. ALL. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. THIRD WITCH. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witches...
Page 73 - twill endure wind and weather. Vio. 'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on : Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive, If you will lead these graces to the grave, And leave the world no copy.