Remarks, Critical, Conjectural, and Explanatory, Upon the Plays of Shakspeare: Resulting from a Collation of the Early Copies, with that of Johnson and Steevens, Ed. by Isaac Reed, Esq., Together with Some Valuable Extracts from the Mss. of the Late Right Honourable John, Lord Chedworth, Issue 2J. Wright, 1805 |
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... speech , the using " as , " for that , is an abuse which our poet himself seems to have been prompt to reprehend , if I mistake not , the meaning of a passage in Coriolanus , where Me- nenius , railing at the citizens , says , " I find ...
... speech , the using " as , " for that , is an abuse which our poet himself seems to have been prompt to reprehend , if I mistake not , the meaning of a passage in Coriolanus , where Me- nenius , railing at the citizens , says , " I find ...
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... speech . 299 . 66 High - sighted tyranny . " . Tyranny looking aloft , ambitious . " What need we any spur , but our own cause , " To prick us to redress ? " - We find in Macbeth a similar expression : ( C I have no spur , " To prick ...
... speech . 299 . 66 High - sighted tyranny . " . Tyranny looking aloft , ambitious . " What need we any spur , but our own cause , " To prick us to redress ? " - We find in Macbeth a similar expression : ( C I have no spur , " To prick ...
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... speech is to deprecate what is here recommended : " and , " in the first line , unquestionably should be " nor . " " We shall be call'd purgers , not murderers . " What sort of a line is this ? We can count , indeed , just ten syllables ...
... speech is to deprecate what is here recommended : " and , " in the first line , unquestionably should be " nor . " " We shall be call'd purgers , not murderers . " What sort of a line is this ? We can count , indeed , just ten syllables ...
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... speech of Brutus , wherein I can , by no means , recognise the justness of Dr. Warburton's remark , which states , " it is very fine in its kind , impresses me with a strong persuasion that it is not at all the production of our poet ...
... speech of Brutus , wherein I can , by no means , recognise the justness of Dr. Warburton's remark , which states , " it is very fine in its kind , impresses me with a strong persuasion that it is not at all the production of our poet ...
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... speeches of Antony over the dead body of Cæsar , and the artful eloquence with which he captivates the multitude , as class- ing among the happiest effusions of the poet ; and there are few instances , perhaps , to be found of more ...
... speeches of Antony over the dead body of Cæsar , and the artful eloquence with which he captivates the multitude , as class- ing among the happiest effusions of the poet ; and there are few instances , perhaps , to be found of more ...
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Antony Apemantus appears believe better Brutus CAPEL LOFFT Cassio Coriolanus correction corruption Cymbeline death Desd Desdemona disorder do't dost doth Duke ejected ellipsis emendation Emil expression eyes fair false fear folio give Hamlet hast hath hear heart heaven hemistic Henry honour hypermeter Iago Iago's interpolation Johnson Juliet Julius Cæsar Kent king King Lear knave lady Lear LOFFT LORD CHEDWORTH lost Macbeth madam Malone Mark Antony meaning measure Merchant of Venice metre nature ne'er never occurs omitted Othello passage perhaps play poet Posthumus pray PRINCE OF TYRE propose quarto reads queen regulate remark Romeo says SCENE SCENE II seems sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew speak speech stand Steevens Steevens's strange STRUTT suppose swear syllable thee thing thou thought Timon tion useless verb verse villain wanting Warburton's words