The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 9C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1807 |
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... copies read -worm - eaten hole . Malone . Northumberland had retired and fortified himself in his castle , a place of strength in those times , though the building might be impaired by its antiquity ; and , therefore , I believe our ...
... copies read -worm - eaten hole . Malone . Northumberland had retired and fortified himself in his castle , a place of strength in those times , though the building might be impaired by its antiquity ; and , therefore , I believe our ...
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... copies - at a face - royal . Corrected by the editor of the second folio . Malone . Perhaps this quibbling allusion is to the English real , rial , or royal The poet seems to mean that a barber can no more earn sixpence by his face ...
... copies - at a face - royal . Corrected by the editor of the second folio . Malone . Perhaps this quibbling allusion is to the English real , rial , or royal The poet seems to mean that a barber can no more earn sixpence by his face ...
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... copy , I have no doubt , merely from Oldcastle being , behind the scenes , the familiar theatrical appellation of Falstaff , who was his stage - successor . All the actors , copyists , & c . were undoubtedly well acquainted with the ...
... copy , I have no doubt , merely from Oldcastle being , behind the scenes , the familiar theatrical appellation of Falstaff , who was his stage - successor . All the actors , copyists , & c . were undoubtedly well acquainted with the ...
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... copy reads : Yes , if this present & c . I believe the old reading is the true one , and that a line is lost ; but have adopted Dr. Johnson's emendation , because it makes sense . The punctuation now introduced appears to me preferable ...
... copy reads : Yes , if this present & c . I believe the old reading is the true one , and that a line is lost ; but have adopted Dr. Johnson's emendation , because it makes sense . The punctuation now introduced appears to me preferable ...
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... copy not under- stood , are properly regulated in the next edition , and are here only mentioned to show what errors may be suspected to remain . Johnson . I believe the editor of the folio did not correct the quarto rightly ; in which ...
... copy not under- stood , are properly regulated in the next edition , and are here only mentioned to show what errors may be suspected to remain . Johnson . I believe the editor of the folio did not correct the quarto rightly ; in which ...
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Page 341 - I tell you, captain, — if you look in the maps of the "orld, I warrant you shall find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon ; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth...
Page 157 - It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one of another : therefore let men take heed of their company.
Page 325 - God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold; Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if men my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires; But, if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive No, 'faith, my coz, wish not a man from England: God's peace!
Page 85 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep!
Page 325 - Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart ; his passport shall be made And crowns for convoy put into his purse : We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us.
Page 326 - This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered...
Page 267 - Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war. And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture...
Page 88 - Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea! and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors ! O, if this were seen, The happiest youth, viewing his progress through,— What perils past, what crosses to ensue,— Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.
Page 153 - Laud be to God ! — even there my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years, I should not die but in Jerusalem ; Which vainly I suppos'd, the Holy Land : — But, bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie ; In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.
Page 326 - And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered : We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition...