Remarks, Critical, Conjectural, and Explanatory, Upon the Plays of Shakspeare: Resulting from a Collation of the Early Copies, with that of Johnson and Steevens, Ed. by Isaac Reed, Esq., Together with Some Valuable Extracts from the Mss. of the Late Right Honourable John, Lord Chedworth, Issue 1J. Wright, 1805 |
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... leave questionable the authority even of the best copies , for , excepting A Midsummer Night's Dream , we shall not , perhaps , find a single play that is not evidently corrupted ; and there exists no other rule whereby we can ...
... leave questionable the authority even of the best copies , for , excepting A Midsummer Night's Dream , we shall not , perhaps , find a single play that is not evidently corrupted ; and there exists no other rule whereby we can ...
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... leaves of roses . " Some food we had , and some fresh water , that " A noble Neapolitan , Gonzalo , 66 Out of his charity ( who being then ap- pointed " Master of this design ) did give us , " & c . Mr. Steevens need not have scrupled ...
... leaves of roses . " Some food we had , and some fresh water , that " A noble Neapolitan , Gonzalo , 66 Out of his charity ( who being then ap- pointed " Master of this design ) did give us , " & c . Mr. Steevens need not have scrupled ...
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... leave them , whilst I visit " Young Ferdinand , ( whom they suppose is drown'd . ) " Strange , that any editor should overlook so barbarous a breach of grammar as this ; and yet it has polluted the text in all the successive edi- tions ...
... leave them , whilst I visit " Young Ferdinand , ( whom they suppose is drown'd . ) " Strange , that any editor should overlook so barbarous a breach of grammar as this ; and yet it has polluted the text in all the successive edi- tions ...
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... leave ; and the words of Escalus seem only intended to follow him . " And it concerns me . " I believe we should read , as it concerns me . " I am not yet instructed . " To this hemistic perhaps was added " And would learn . " G 2 Qui ...
... leave ; and the words of Escalus seem only intended to follow him . " And it concerns me . " I believe we should read , as it concerns me . " I am not yet instructed . " To this hemistic perhaps was added " And would learn . " G 2 Qui ...
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... leaving the nomina- tive noun , in this sentence , singular , we should read becomes , instead of become . ut Mercy has a similar pre - eminence in the Mer- chant of Venice : It becomes " The throned monarch better than his crown ...
... leaving the nomina- tive noun , in this sentence , singular , we should read becomes , instead of become . ut Mercy has a similar pre - eminence in the Mer- chant of Venice : It becomes " The throned monarch better than his crown ...
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66 SCENE accentuation admit allusion appears Banquo believe better blood called censure certainly conjecture Coriolanus correction corruption Cymbeline death dissyllable doth Duke ellipsis emendation expression eyes Falstaff fear give grace grief Hamlet hand hast hath heart heaven hemistic Henry VI honour Hotspur hypermeter implies instance Johnson Julius Cæsar King Henry King Lear lady LORD CHEDWORTH Macbeth Malone Malone's Mason meaning measure Measure for Measure metre Milton murder nature never noun numbers occurs omitted Othello Paradise Lost passage peace perhaps phrase play pleonasm poet poet's pronoun quarto remarks Richard Romeo and Juliet seems sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew sleep soul speak speech stand Steevens Steevens's strange STRUTT suppose sure sweet sword syllable Tacitus tell thee thing thou thought tion tongue transposition trisyllable true uttered verb verse virtue wanting Warburton word
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Page 188 - Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off ; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.
Page 188 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...
Page 346 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 24 - But what my power might else exact, — like one Who having unto truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie...
Page 188 - He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Page 349 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
Page 44 - The seasons alter : hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose ; And on old Hyems' chin, and icy crown, An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set.
Page 254 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Page 440 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Page 199 - I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?