The Works of William Shakespeare: The Plays Ed. from the Folio of MDCXXIII, with Various Readings from All the Editions and All the Commentators, Notes, Introductory Remarks, a Historical Sketch of the Text, an Account of the Rise and Progress of the English Drama, a Memoir of the Poet, and an Essay Upon the Genius, Volume 11Little, Brown, 1862 |
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... Lear , Act V. Sc . 3 , " packs and sects of great ones . " " And recks not his own read " : — i . e . , is regardless of his own words , does not practise what he preaches . with hoops of steel " : - Although the first 4to . has , " a ...
... Lear , Act V. Sc . 3 , " packs and sects of great ones . " " And recks not his own read " : — i . e . , is regardless of his own words , does not practise what he preaches . with hoops of steel " : - Although the first 4to . has , " a ...
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... Lear preceded the first of the two Cæsars of that name more than a thousand years . They might as well have said two ... Lear's story in Holinshed's Chronicles , in the Mirror of Magistrates , in the Romance of Perce- forest , in the ...
... Lear preceded the first of the two Cæsars of that name more than a thousand years . They might as well have said two ... Lear's story in Holinshed's Chronicles , in the Mirror of Magistrates , in the Romance of Perce- forest , in the ...
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... Lear exclaims , - " ' twas this flesh begot Those pelican daughters , " we may be quite sure that we hear an echo of these lines by the forgotten dramatist : " I am as kind as is the pelican That kills it self to save her young ones ...
... Lear exclaims , - " ' twas this flesh begot Those pelican daughters , " we may be quite sure that we hear an echo of these lines by the forgotten dramatist : " I am as kind as is the pelican That kills it self to save her young ones ...
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... Lear , as yt was played before the King's Majestie at Whitehall , upon St. Stephen's night , at Christmas last , by his Majesties Servants playing usually at the Globe on the Bank - side . " King Lear was therefore written before ...
... Lear , as yt was played before the King's Majestie at Whitehall , upon St. Stephen's night , at Christmas last , by his Majesties Servants playing usually at the Globe on the Bank - side . " King Lear was therefore written before ...
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... Lear in the storm , - tears his white hair , ' & c . But mark , —it is description ; and the judgment of Shakespeare in omitting it is unquestionable , for he subsequently shows Lear in action under precisely the same circumstances . In ...
... Lear in the storm , - tears his white hair , ' & c . But mark , —it is description ; and the judgment of Shakespeare in omitting it is unquestionable , for he subsequently shows Lear in action under precisely the same circumstances . In ...
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Page 83 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life ; But that the dread of something after death, — The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, — puzzles the will ; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 51 - With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, And in the porches of mine ears did pour The leperous distilment; whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Page 47 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Page 211 - Lear. Let it be so, — thy truth, then, be thy dower : For, by the sacred radiance of the sun, The mysteries of Hecate, and the night ; By all the operation of the orbs From whom we do exist, and cease to be ; Here I disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity and property of blood, And, as a stranger to my heart and me, Hold thee, from this, for ever.
Page 118 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Page 88 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 387 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear • Devour up my discourse: which I, observing, Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels...
Page 86 - O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious, periwigpated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise.
Page 42 - But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, Bear it, that the opposer may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice: Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy: For the apparel oft proclaims the man; And thej' in France, of the best rank and station, Are most select and generous, chief in that.
Page 476 - It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul, — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause...