The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index, Volume 4 |
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... romances , and in their very style . Why he says , from tawny Spain , is , be- cause those romances , being of Spanish original , the heroes and the scene were generally of that country . Why he says , lost in the world's debate , is ...
... romances , and in their very style . Why he says , from tawny Spain , is , be- cause those romances , being of Spanish original , the heroes and the scene were generally of that country . Why he says , lost in the world's debate , is ...
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... romance of the Sowdon of Baby- loyne , p . 56 : 66 sir Gye my love so free , " Thou kanste welle hit the pricke ; " He shall make no booste in his contre , " God gyfe him sorowe thikke . " Mar. Wide o ' the bow hand ! 2 I 62 LOVE'S ...
... romance of the Sowdon of Baby- loyne , p . 56 : 66 sir Gye my love so free , " Thou kanste welle hit the pricke ; " He shall make no booste in his contre , " God gyfe him sorowe thikke . " Mar. Wide o ' the bow hand ! 2 I 62 LOVE'S ...
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... romance of Syr Eglamoure of Artoys , no date : " The erle had no chylde but one , " A mayden as white as whales bone . " Steevens . This white whale his bone , now superseded by ivory , was the tooth of the Horse - whale , Morse , or ...
... romance of Syr Eglamoure of Artoys , no date : " The erle had no chylde but one , " A mayden as white as whales bone . " Steevens . This white whale his bone , now superseded by ivory , was the tooth of the Horse - whale , Morse , or ...
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... romance of The Sowdon of Babyloyne , MS . p . 80 : " That alle men shall take hede " What deth traytours shall fele , " That assente to such falshede , " Howe the wynde theyr bodyes shal kele . " Again , in Gower De Confessione Amantis ...
... romance of The Sowdon of Babyloyne , MS . p . 80 : " That alle men shall take hede " What deth traytours shall fele , " That assente to such falshede , " Howe the wynde theyr bodyes shal kele . " Again , in Gower De Confessione Amantis ...
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... Romances , has said little or nothing of these in that superficial work . For having brought down the account of Romances to the later Greeks , and entered upon those composed by the barbarous western writers , which have now the name ...
... Romances , has said little or nothing of these in that superficial work . For having brought down the account of Romances to the later Greeks , and entered upon those composed by the barbarous western writers , which have now the name ...
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Page 409 - Nay, take my life and all ; pardon not that : You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 365 - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 317 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 10 - Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are.
Page 157 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, 920 Unpleasing to a married ear!
Page 68 - Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts...
Page 408 - Therefore prepare thee to cut off the flesh. Shed thou no blood, nor cut thou less nor more But just a pound of flesh. If thou tak'st more Or less than a just pound, be it but so much As makes it light or heavy in the substance Or the division of the twentieth part Of one poor scruple, nay, if the scale do turn But in the estimation of a hair, Thou diest, and all thy goods are confiscate.
Page 419 - By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature.
Page 320 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes
Page 32 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.