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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... less reprehensible , and every poetic ear must be offended by metrical dissonance . Yet all these faults abound without even a comment in the last edition of Shaks- peare's plays . Upon examining the com- positions before us , we must ...
... less reprehensible , and every poetic ear must be offended by metrical dissonance . Yet all these faults abound without even a comment in the last edition of Shaks- peare's plays . Upon examining the com- positions before us , we must ...
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... less verses and scenes in the plays , which prove he had an ear as correctly tuned as that of Pope , but far surpassing him in true and various melody : and equal , if not superior , even to Milton himself . When- ever , therefore , we ...
... less verses and scenes in the plays , which prove he had an ear as correctly tuned as that of Pope , but far surpassing him in true and various melody : and equal , if not superior , even to Milton himself . When- ever , therefore , we ...
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... less impertinent than would be that of the dative before the adverbs hither , thither , whither , were they to be set down to hither , to thither , to whither . ( 6 ) It is not improbable that the poet 18 NOTES ON THE INTRODUCTION .
... less impertinent than would be that of the dative before the adverbs hither , thither , whither , were they to be set down to hither , to thither , to whither . ( 6 ) It is not improbable that the poet 18 NOTES ON THE INTRODUCTION .
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... less defective than redundant . " " Tis strange ; your father's in some passion . " Passion is here , as in various other places , a trisyllable . " You do look , my son , in a mov'd sort . ' A slight transposition , and the enlargement ...
... less defective than redundant . " " Tis strange ; your father's in some passion . " Passion is here , as in various other places , a trisyllable . " You do look , my son , in a mov'd sort . ' A slight transposition , and the enlargement ...
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... less outrage , I believe , may be styled nonsensical ; such a thing , if it could exist , being an object not of sight , or " shew , " but of feeling . Mr. Upton would read , ( and Dr. Johnson adds , not improbably , ) " and wonderous ...
... less outrage , I believe , may be styled nonsensical ; such a thing , if it could exist , being an object not of sight , or " shew , " but of feeling . Mr. Upton would read , ( and Dr. Johnson adds , not improbably , ) " and wonderous ...
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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?