The Text of Shakespeare Vindicated from the Interpolations and Corruptions Advocated by John Payne Collier, Esq., in His Notes and EmendationsW. Pickering, 1853 - 312 pages |
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... old text , I could not bring myself to believe that he would indulge in a hoax which might lead to mischievous results . I am constrained , there- fore , to imagine it possible that he has himself been made the victim of such a delusion ...
... old text , I could not bring myself to believe that he would indulge in a hoax which might lead to mischievous results . I am constrained , there- fore , to imagine it possible that he has himself been made the victim of such a delusion ...
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... text of every old edition , and of rejecting that of every modern one . " ( Vol . iv . p . 137. ) Again : " Malone and the modern editors silently omit ' an , ' probably under the notion that they had a right to cor- rect Shakespeare's ...
... text of every old edition , and of rejecting that of every modern one . " ( Vol . iv . p . 137. ) Again : " Malone and the modern editors silently omit ' an , ' probably under the notion that they had a right to cor- rect Shakespeare's ...
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... old genuine text is therefore not to be tolerated for a moment . P. 9 . ACT II . SCENE I. And the fair soul herself Weigh'd , between lothness and obedience , at Which end o ' the beam she'd bow . The corrector would read And the fair ...
... old genuine text is therefore not to be tolerated for a moment . P. 9 . ACT II . SCENE I. And the fair soul herself Weigh'd , between lothness and obedience , at Which end o ' the beam she'd bow . The corrector would read And the fair ...
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... Text . The same remark applies to the alterations to rhyme throughout this play . P. 30 . “ A MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR . ACT I. SCENE III . MISPRINT in the old editions of ' carves for craves , has occasioned some difficulty in the ...
... Text . The same remark applies to the alterations to rhyme throughout this play . P. 30 . “ A MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR . ACT I. SCENE III . MISPRINT in the old editions of ' carves for craves , has occasioned some difficulty in the ...
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... old com- positor became strangely metamorphosed into cried game . " A strange metamorphose indeed ! Perhaps a more absurd conjecture was never entertained . There can be no doubt that Mr. Dyce's suggestion of " Cried I aim " [ i . e ...
... old com- positor became strangely metamorphosed into cried game . " A strange metamorphose indeed ! Perhaps a more absurd conjecture was never entertained . There can be no doubt that Mr. Dyce's suggestion of " Cried I aim " [ i . e ...
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Page xviii - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart • Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took, Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving ; And, so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
Page 39 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons...
Page 273 - Here, take this purse, thou whom the heavens' plagues Have humbled to all strokes : that I am wretched Makes thee the happier : — heavens, deal so still ! Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man, That slaves your ordinance, that will not see Because he doth not feel, feel your power quickly ; So distribution should undo excess, And each man have enough.
Page 255 - ... you come to know it,) answer me : Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches ; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders...
Page 277 - I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. — She's gone for ever ! — I know when one is dead, and when one lives ; She's dead as earth. — Lend me a looking-glass ; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives.
Page 33 - Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word, The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest.
Page 249 - This was the noblest Roman of them all : All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man!
Page 130 - The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp That beats upon the high shore of this world No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony, Not all these, laid in bed majestical, Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave...
Page 203 - There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body. O, these encounterers, so glib of tongue, That give a coasting welcome ere it comes.
Page 63 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. — That strain again ! — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, (') That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour ! — Enough ; no more : 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.