The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 7C. and A. Conrad, 1806 |
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... arm ' gainst arm , Curbing his lavish spirit : And , to conclude , The victory fell on us ; Dun . Rosse . That now Great happiness ! Sweno , the Norways ' king , ' craves composition ; Nor would we deign him burial of his men , Till he ...
... arm ' gainst arm , Curbing his lavish spirit : And , to conclude , The victory fell on us ; Dun . Rosse . That now Great happiness ! Sweno , the Norways ' king , ' craves composition ; Nor would we deign him burial of his men , Till he ...
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... arms . " 8 Steevens . Come , come , you spirits - ] For the sake of the metre I have ventured to repeat the word - come , which occurs only once in the old copy . All had been added by Sir William D'Avenant , to supply the same ...
... arms . " 8 Steevens . Come , come , you spirits - ] For the sake of the metre I have ventured to repeat the word - come , which occurs only once in the old copy . All had been added by Sir William D'Avenant , to supply the same ...
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... arm . 66 and then the sewre " Pour'd water from a great and golden ewre . ' 66 - 99 The sewer's chief mark of distinction was a towel round his So , in Ben Jonson's Silent Woman : - clap me a clean towel about you , like a sewer ...
... arm . 66 and then the sewre " Pour'd water from a great and golden ewre . ' 66 - 99 The sewer's chief mark of distinction was a towel round his So , in Ben Jonson's Silent Woman : - clap me a clean towel about you , like a sewer ...
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... arms against a sea of troubles is a well - known example of this kind , and twenty others might be produced . Our author certainly alludes to the waters , which are capable of discoloration , and not to the fishes . His allusion to the ...
... arms against a sea of troubles is a well - known example of this kind , and twenty others might be produced . Our author certainly alludes to the waters , which are capable of discoloration , and not to the fishes . His allusion to the ...
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... arms " With blood of our own nation . " Shakspeare repeats the image in King John : " Their armours that march'd hence so silver bright , " Hither return all gilt with Frenchmen's blood . " Steevens . We meet with the same antithesis in ...
... arms " With blood of our own nation . " Shakspeare repeats the image in King John : " Their armours that march'd hence so silver bright , " Hither return all gilt with Frenchmen's blood . " Steevens . We meet with the same antithesis in ...
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Page 135 - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.
Page 14 - Fair is foul, and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air.
Page 375 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 382 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet) Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent.
Page 83 - I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Page 100 - I hear a knocking At the south entry : — retire we to our chamber : A little water clears us of this deed : How easy is it then ! Your constancy Hath left you unattended.
Page 71 - Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely ? From this time Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire?
Page 173 - Howe'er you come to know it, answer me: Though you untie the winds and let them fight Against the churches; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders...
Page 51 - It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way : thou wouldst be great ; Art not without ambition ; but without The illness should attend it : what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily ; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win...
Page 52 - 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.