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I cannot determine exactly when this Epiftle was first published ; but , I fancy , it
will carry the original Hamlet somewhat further back than we have hitherto done :
and it may be observed , that the oldelt copy now extant , is said to be “ enlarged
...
I cannot determine exactly when this Epiftle was first published ; but , I fancy , it
will carry the original Hamlet somewhat further back than we have hitherto done :
and it may be observed , that the oldelt copy now extant , is said to be “ enlarged
...
Page 86
Again , in an ancient MS , of which some account is given in a note on the first
scene of the first act of The Merry Wives of Windsor , the oath taken by a majter of
defence when his degree was conferred on him , is preserved , and runs as ...
Again , in an ancient MS , of which some account is given in a note on the first
scene of the first act of The Merry Wives of Windsor , the oath taken by a majter of
defence when his degree was conferred on him , is preserved , and runs as ...
Page 134
To which are Added Notes William Shakespeare. know , It came to pass , As most
like it was , — The first row of the pious chanson9 will show you more ; for look ,
my abridgment ? comes . Christopherson in 1546 , and another by Buchanan ...
To which are Added Notes William Shakespeare. know , It came to pass , As most
like it was , — The first row of the pious chanson9 will show you more ; for look ,
my abridgment ? comes . Christopherson in 1546 , and another by Buchanan ...
Page 156
Dr . Johnson ' s explication of the first five lines of this passage is surely wrong .
Hamlet is not deliberating whether after our pre . sent state we are to exist or not ,
but whether he should continue to live , or put an end to his life : as is pointed out
...
Dr . Johnson ' s explication of the first five lines of this passage is surely wrong .
Hamlet is not deliberating whether after our pre . sent state we are to exist or not ,
but whether he should continue to live , or put an end to his life : as is pointed out
...
Page 305
Loggeting in the fields is mentioned for the first time among other “ new and crafty
games and plays , ” in the statute of 33 Henry VIII . c . 9 . Not being mentioned in
former acts against unlawful games , it was probably not practised long before ...
Loggeting in the fields is mentioned for the first time among other “ new and crafty
games and plays , ” in the statute of 33 Henry VIII . c . 9 . Not being mentioned in
former acts against unlawful games , it was probably not practised long before ...
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Page 197 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass: and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think, I am easier to be played on than a pipe...
Page 30 - ... uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Page 43 - Are most select and generous, chief in that. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Page 72 - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!
Page 42 - Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Page 27 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 199 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
Page 161 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 529 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Page 205 - I'll look up;] My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder'?
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| Title | The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes, Volume 15 The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | T. Longman, 1793 |
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