The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 11F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... suppose they are reciting a verse , may profit by the direction they have received . The pronoun " their , " having two vowels together , may be split into two syllables ; but the adverb " there " can only be used as a monosyllable ...
... suppose they are reciting a verse , may profit by the direction they have received . The pronoun " their , " having two vowels together , may be split into two syllables ; but the adverb " there " can only be used as a monosyllable ...
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... suppose the meaning is , that fortune , while she smiled on him , deceived him . Shak- speare probably alludes to Macdowald's first successful action , Which smok'd with bloody execution , Like valour's minion , 18 ACT 1 . MACBETH . For ...
... suppose the meaning is , that fortune , while she smiled on him , deceived him . Shak- speare probably alludes to Macdowald's first successful action , Which smok'd with bloody execution , Like valour's minion , 18 ACT 1 . MACBETH . For ...
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... suppose to have been coined by Shakspeare , is used by Spenser , in a sonnet to Lord Buck- hurst , prefixed to his Pastorals , 1579 : " In vaine I thinke , right honourable lord , " By this rude rine to memorize thy name . " T. WARTON ...
... suppose to have been coined by Shakspeare , is used by Spenser , in a sonnet to Lord Buck- hurst , prefixed to his Pastorals , 1579 : " In vaine I thinke , right honourable lord , " By this rude rine to memorize thy name . " T. WARTON ...
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... suppose that a rowan tree was the origin of the phrase , it is probable that Shak- speare adopted the corruption as he found it ; as he has done handsaw , for hernshaw , in Hamlet . Boswell . There is no doubt that aroint signifies away ...
... suppose that a rowan tree was the origin of the phrase , it is probable that Shak- speare adopted the corruption as he found it ; as he has done handsaw , for hernshaw , in Hamlet . Boswell . There is no doubt that aroint signifies away ...
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... suppose the messenger acquainted with the hidden im- port of his message , speed alone had intercepted his breath , as repetition the raven's voice ; though the lady considered both as organs of that destiny which hurried Duncan into ...
... suppose the messenger acquainted with the hidden im- port of his message , speed alone had intercepted his breath , as repetition the raven's voice ; though the lady considered both as organs of that destiny which hurried Duncan into ...
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Page 40 - Are ye fantastical, or that indeed Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner You greet with present grace, and great prediction Of noble having, and of royal hope, That he seems rapt withal; to me you speak not: If you can look into the seeds of time, And say, which grain will grow, and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg, nor fear, Your favours, nor your hate.
Page 170 - Blood hath been shed ere now, i the olden time, Ere human statute purg'd the gentle weal ; Ay, and since too, murthers have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear : the times have been, That when the brains were out the man would die, And there an end : but now, they rise again, With twenty mortal murthers on their crowns, And push us from our stools : This is more strange Than such a murther is.
Page 95 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee : I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Page 242 - The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What! will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.
Page 52 - Highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance. Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he ow'd, As 'twere a careless trifle.
Page 242 - To bed, to bed; there's knocking at the gate. Come, come, come, come, give me your hand ; What's done, cannot be undone : To bed, to bed, to bed.
Page 272 - And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. I'll not fight with thee. MACDUFF: Then yield thee, coward; And live to be the show and gaze o
Page 46 - tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths ; Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence Cousins, a word, . I pray you.
Page 83 - 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 96 - I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going; And such an instrument I was to use. Mine eyes are made the fools o...