The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 21F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... leave it to be observed that he had printed many passages in Pericles without an effort to exhibit them ( as they must have originally appeared ) with some obvious meaning , and a tolerable flow of versification . The pebble which ...
... leave it to be observed that he had printed many passages in Pericles without an effort to exhibit them ( as they must have originally appeared ) with some obvious meaning , and a tolerable flow of versification . The pebble which ...
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... leave , ) nature bestowed this dowry upon her - While she was struggling into the world , the planets held a consultation how they should unite in her the utmost perfection their blended influence could bestow . " - It should be ...
... leave , ) nature bestowed this dowry upon her - While she was struggling into the world , the planets held a consultation how they should unite in her the utmost perfection their blended influence could bestow . " - It should be ...
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... , in Love's Labour's Lost : 66 Study his bias leaves , and makes his book thine eyes , " Where all those pleasures live , that art could compre- hend . " Sorrow were ever ras'd ' , and testy wrath Could 20 ACT I. PERICLES ,
... , in Love's Labour's Lost : 66 Study his bias leaves , and makes his book thine eyes , " Where all those pleasures live , that art could compre- hend . " Sorrow were ever ras'd ' , and testy wrath Could 20 ACT I. PERICLES ,
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... leave to love my head . the publication of their shame , they will , of course , prevent a repe- tition of it , by destroying the person who divulged it : He pursues the same idea in the instance of the mole , and concludes with re ...
... leave to love my head . the publication of their shame , they will , of course , prevent a repe- tition of it , by destroying the person who divulged it : He pursues the same idea in the instance of the mole , and concludes with re ...
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... leave out the word should , which injures both the sense and the metre , and read : " Let none disturb us : why this change of thoughts ? " M. MASON . 3 The sad companion , DULL - EY'D MELANCHOLY , ] So , in The Comedy of Errors : 66 ...
... leave out the word should , which injures both the sense and the metre , and read : " Let none disturb us : why this change of thoughts ? " M. MASON . 3 The sad companion , DULL - EY'D MELANCHOLY , ] So , in The Comedy of Errors : 66 ...
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Page 268 - Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods ? Draw near them then in being merciful : Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge, Thrice-noble Titus, spare my first-born son.
Page 170 - And brass eternal slave to mortal rage ; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay ; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away.
Page 102 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Page 51 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 136 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 198 - Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety : other women cloy The appetites they feed : but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies : for vilest things Become themselves in her; that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.
Page 139 - Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...