The Works of Shakespeare ...Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1907 |
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... Steevens mentions that , in his day , one of the bearers of the name Woodville pro- nounced it in this way . " England ' and " Henry , " among other words , are often found in places where it is neces- sary to pronounce them as ...
... Steevens mentions that , in his day , one of the bearers of the name Woodville pro- nounced it in this way . " England ' and " Henry , " among other words , are often found in places where it is neces- sary to pronounce them as ...
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... Steevens emended the metre by giving a whole line to " A cherry lip . " Pope omitted " a bonny eye . " Is it not possible that the line is a snatch from some old song in " fourteen " metre ? 94. bonny ] Compare 2 Henry VI . v . ii . 12 ...
... Steevens emended the metre by giving a whole line to " A cherry lip . " Pope omitted " a bonny eye . " Is it not possible that the line is a snatch from some old song in " fourteen " metre ? 94. bonny ] Compare 2 Henry VI . v . ii . 12 ...
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... about you . " See below , lines 147 , 148 . 116. patience . . . perforce ] Steevens sees an allusion to the proverb " Pa- tience perforce is a medicine for a mad dog . " Glou . No doubt , no doubt ; and so SC . I. ] 15 KING RICHARD III.
... about you . " See below , lines 147 , 148 . 116. patience . . . perforce ] Steevens sees an allusion to the proverb " Pa- tience perforce is a medicine for a mad dog . " Glou . No doubt , no doubt ; and so SC . I. ] 15 KING RICHARD III.
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... Steevens quotes Arden of ( Dyce , 123 ) : - Feversham , 1592 : - " The more I sound his name , the more he bleeds : This blood condemns me , and in gushing forth Speaks as it falls , and asks me why I did it . " Aldis Wright notices ...
... Steevens quotes Arden of ( Dyce , 123 ) : - Feversham , 1592 : - " The more I sound his name , the more he bleeds : This blood condemns me , and in gushing forth Speaks as it falls , and asks me why I did it . " Aldis Wright notices ...
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... - tions - e.g . Steevens , Some dungeon perhaps . Glou . Your bed - chamber , " in which " dungeon " is a trisyllable- seem to be unnecessary . 66 Anne . Il rest betide the chamber where thou liest SC . II . ] 23 KING RICHARD III.
... - tions - e.g . Steevens , Some dungeon perhaps . Glou . Your bed - chamber , " in which " dungeon " is a trisyllable- seem to be unnecessary . 66 Anne . Il rest betide the chamber where thou liest SC . II . ] 23 KING RICHARD III.
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Page 7 - Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York ; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Page 8 - Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds, To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
Page 47 - But then I sigh, and with a piece of Scripture, Tell them — that God bids us do good for evil ; And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends, stolen forth of holy writ ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Page 199 - By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard, Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers, Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond.
Page 9 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Page vii - The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. Containing, His treacherous Plots against his brother Clarence : the pittiefull murther of his innocent nephewes : His tyrannicall vsurpation : with the whole course of his detested life, and most deserucd death. As it hath beene lately acted by the Right honourable the Lord Chamberlaine, his seruants.
Page 199 - ... a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree ; Murder, stern murder, in the dir'st degree ; All several sins, all us'd in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, — Guilty ! guilty ! I shall despair.
Page 110 - My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; I do beseech you, send for some of them.
Page 10 - Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover. To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Page 51 - With that grim ferryman which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. The first that there did greet my stranger soul, Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick ; Who cried aloud, " What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence...