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... editions of modern times . " Having mastered and noted the variæ lectiones in the old copies , the task of selection i a play found only in the folios was not difficult , the first copy , 1623 , being in almost al cases preferable to ...
... editions of modern times . " Having mastered and noted the variæ lectiones in the old copies , the task of selection i a play found only in the folios was not difficult , the first copy , 1623 , being in almost al cases preferable to ...
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... Old copies , it . ( + ) The folio , 1623 , bankerout , omitting quite . ( 1 ) Old copies , fast . a Fat paunches have lean pates , & c . ] " Pinguis venter non gignit sensum tenuem . ” There is a more elegant Greek proverb , mentioned ...
... Old copies , it . ( + ) The folio , 1623 , bankerout , omitting quite . ( 1 ) Old copies , fast . a Fat paunches have lean pates , & c . ] " Pinguis venter non gignit sensum tenuem . ” There is a more elegant Greek proverb , mentioned ...
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... Old copies , sworne . ( t ) First folio , shall . Well , sit you out ; ] The folio reads , fit you out , which is a palpable misprint . To sit out , a phrase borrowed from the card table , was a common expression in Shakespeare's age ...
... Old copies , sworne . ( t ) First folio , shall . Well , sit you out ; ] The folio reads , fit you out , which is a palpable misprint . To sit out , a phrase borrowed from the card table , was a common expression in Shakespeare's age ...
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... old copies have , " forbear hearing . " The emendation is due to Capell . d I was taken with the manner . ] Costard quibbles on manner . written mainour in the old law - books ; i.e. the thing stolen , and manor house , where he was ...
... old copies have , " forbear hearing . " The emendation is due to Capell . d I was taken with the manner . ] Costard quibbles on manner . written mainour in the old law - books ; i.e. the thing stolen , and manor house , where he was ...
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... old copies we have Braggart , instead of Armado . b Thou pretty , because little : ] So in Ben Jonson's play of " The Fox , " ( Gifford's edition , ) vol . iii . p . 236 : - " First for your dwarf , he's little and witty , And every ...
... old copies we have Braggart , instead of Armado . b Thou pretty , because little : ] So in Ben Jonson's play of " The Fox , " ( Gifford's edition , ) vol . iii . p . 236 : - " First for your dwarf , he's little and witty , And every ...
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Page 355 - This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed, and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, (For Christian service, and true chivalry...
Page 355 - Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out (I die pronouncing it), Like to a tenement, or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds: That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Page 462 - With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And, in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king ? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 410 - I'll sup. Farewell. Poins. Farewell, my lord. [Exit POINS. P. Hen. I know you all, and will a while uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness : Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world, That when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours, that did seem to strangle him.
Page 29 - Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her ? Holy, fair and wise is she ; The heaven such grace did lend her That she might admired be. Is she kind as she is fair ? for beauty lives with kindness : Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness ; And, being help'd, inhabits there.
Page 311 - 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? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong...
Page 295 - Shylock, we would have moneys :" — you say so ; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold : moneys is your suit. What should I say to you ? Should I not say, " Hath a dog money ? is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats...