The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 13J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... passages are to be found here , though several are scattered through the two other parts . I am therefore decisively of opinion that this play was not written by Shakspeare . The reasons on which that opinion is founded , are stated at ...
... passages are to be found here , though several are scattered through the two other parts . I am therefore decisively of opinion that this play was not written by Shakspeare . The reasons on which that opinion is founded , are stated at ...
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... passage of our author may signify a nurse , as it apparently does in the Tragedies of John Bochas , by Lydgate , B. I. c . xii : " Athenes whan it was in his floures " Was called nourish of philosophers wise . " · Juba tellus generat ...
... passage of our author may signify a nurse , as it apparently does in the Tragedies of John Bochas , by Lydgate , B. I. c . xii : " Athenes whan it was in his floures " Was called nourish of philosophers wise . " · Juba tellus generat ...
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... passage the word Nero was omitted for the same reason . See the Dissertation at the end of the third part of King Henry VI . 3 MALONE . Guienne , Champaigne , Rheims , Orleans , ] This verse might be completed by the insertion of Rouen ...
... passage the word Nero was omitted for the same reason . See the Dissertation at the end of the third part of King Henry VI . 3 MALONE . Guienne , Champaigne , Rheims , Orleans , ] This verse might be completed by the insertion of Rouen ...
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... passage , and that it should be read thus : The king from Eltham I intend to steal , And sit at chiefest stern of publick weal . This slight alteration preserves the sense , and the rhyme also , with which many scenes in this play ...
... passage , and that it should be read thus : The king from Eltham I intend to steal , And sit at chiefest stern of publick weal . This slight alteration preserves the sense , and the rhyme also , with which many scenes in this play ...
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... passage in Plutarch's Life of Julius Cæsar , thus translated by Sir Thomas North : " Cæsar hearing that , straight discovered himselfe unto the maister of the pynnase , who at the first was amazed when he saw him ; but Cæsar , & c ...
... passage in Plutarch's Life of Julius Cæsar , thus translated by Sir Thomas North : " Cæsar hearing that , straight discovered himselfe unto the maister of the pynnase , who at the first was amazed when he saw him ; but Cæsar , & c ...
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Page 348 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school : and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. It will be proved to thy face that thou hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun and a verb, and such abominable words as no Christian ear can endure to hear.
Page 308 - I'll give a thousand pound to look upon him. — He hath no eyes, the dust hath blinded them. — Comb down his hair ; look, look ! it stands upright, Like lime-twigs set to catch my winged soul ! — Give me some drink ; and bid the apothecary Bring the strong poison that I bought of him.
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Page 67 - Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch, Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth, Between two blades, which bears the better temper, Between two horses, which doth bear him best, Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye, I have, perhaps, some shallow spirit of judgment : • But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.