The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added NotesT. Longman, 1793 |
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Page 17
... Shakspeare's author ; but Holinshed , and not Hall , was his author ; as is proved here by the words which I have printed in Italicks , which are not found fo combined in Hall's Chronicle . This fact is indeed proved by various ...
... Shakspeare's author ; but Holinshed , and not Hall , was his author ; as is proved here by the words which I have printed in Italicks , which are not found fo combined in Hall's Chronicle . This fact is indeed proved by various ...
Page 69
... Shakspeare's time . When a perfon was to be discovered in a different apartment from that in which the original speakers in the scene are exhibited , the artless mode of our author's time , was to place such person in the back part of ...
... Shakspeare's time . When a perfon was to be discovered in a different apartment from that in which the original speakers in the scene are exhibited , the artless mode of our author's time , was to place such person in the back part of ...
Page 101
... Shakspeare's age , often signified , malice . So , after- wards : " Ye turn the good we offer into envy . " MALONE . 2 Seek me out , & c . ] I believe that a word has dropt out here , and that we should read , - If your business Seek me ...
... Shakspeare's age , often signified , malice . So , after- wards : " Ye turn the good we offer into envy . " MALONE . 2 Seek me out , & c . ] I believe that a word has dropt out here , and that we should read , - If your business Seek me ...
Page 146
... Shakspeare's tragedies , and perhaps above any scene of any other poet , tender and pathetick , without gods , or furies , or poifons , or precipices , without the help of romantick circumstances , without improbable fallies of poetical ...
... Shakspeare's tragedies , and perhaps above any scene of any other poet , tender and pathetick , without gods , or furies , or poifons , or precipices , without the help of romantick circumstances , without improbable fallies of poetical ...
Page 148
... Shakspeare's knowledge was from Holinshed , whom he follows verbatim : " This cardinal was of a great ftomach , for he compted him- self equal with princes , and by craftie suggestion got into his hands innumerable treasure : he forced ...
... Shakspeare's knowledge was from Holinshed , whom he follows verbatim : " This cardinal was of a great ftomach , for he compted him- self equal with princes , and by craftie suggestion got into his hands innumerable treasure : he forced ...
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Achilles Æneas AGAM Agamemnon Ajax Alcibiades almoſt alſo anſwer Antony and Cleopatra APEM Apemantus becauſe beſt buſineſs Calchas cardinal cauſe Creffida CRES Creſſida Diomed doth editors emendation Engliſh Enter Exeunt faid falſe fame fays fignifies firſt folio fome fool fuch GENT Hanmer hath heart heaven HECT Hector Holinſhed honour houſe inſtance itſelf JOHNSON King Henry lady laſt leſs lord MALONE maſter means meaſure moſt muſt noble obſerved occafion old copy Pandarus paſſage Patroclus perſon play pleaſe pleaſure poet preſent purpoſe quarto queen reaſon ſame ſays ſcene ſecond ſeems ſeen ſenſe ſervant ſervice Shakſpeare Shakſpeare's ſhall ſhe ſhould ſhow Sir Thomas Hanmer ſome ſpeak ſpeech ſpirit ſtand ſtate STEEVENS ſtill ſtrange ſuch ſuppoſe ſweet thee THEOBALD THER theſe thoſe thou Timon Troilus Trojan Troy ULYSS uſed verſe WARBURTON whoſe Wolfey word
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Page 129 - This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 541 - Demand me nothing ; what you know, you know : From this time forth I never will speak word.
Page 74 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Page 135 - Pr'ythee, lead me in : There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny : 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Page 130 - Why, well; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Page 133 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee; Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of...
Page 134 - Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels; how can man then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it?
Page 248 - Amidst the other : whose med'cinable eye Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil, And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check to good and bad : but when the planets In evil mixture to disorder wander.
Page 129 - There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have ; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, }Never to hope again.
Page 348 - There is a mystery (with whom relation Durst never meddle) in the soul of state; Which hath an operation more divine, Than breath, or pen, can give expressure to...