The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text by G. Steevens and E. Malone, with a selection of notes, by A. Chalmers, Volume 4 |
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... play , nor any one incident but what must , of course be common to every translation . Sir William Blackstone , I observe , suspects " this and all other plays where much rhyme is used , and especially long hobbling verses , to have ...
... play , nor any one incident but what must , of course be common to every translation . Sir William Blackstone , I observe , suspects " this and all other plays where much rhyme is used , and especially long hobbling verses , to have ...
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... play was no work of his , is an opinion which ( as Benedick says ) " fire cannot melt out of me ; I will die in it at the stake . " Thus , as we are informed by Aulus Gellius , Lib . III . cap . 3. some plays were absolutely ascribed to ...
... play was no work of his , is an opinion which ( as Benedick says ) " fire cannot melt out of me ; I will die in it at the stake . " Thus , as we are informed by Aulus Gellius , Lib . III . cap . 3. some plays were absolutely ascribed to ...
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... play is deservedly celebrated for the propriety of its fictions , and solemnity , grandeur , and variety of its action ; but it has no nice discriminations of character : the events are too great to admit the influence of particular ...
... play is deservedly celebrated for the propriety of its fictions , and solemnity , grandeur , and variety of its action ; but it has no nice discriminations of character : the events are too great to admit the influence of particular ...
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... play is entirely different , and infinitely superior to it . POPE . The edition of 1611 has no mention of Rowley , nor in the account of Rowley's works is any mention made of his conjunction with Shakspeare in any play . King John was ...
... play is entirely different , and infinitely superior to it . POPE . The edition of 1611 has no mention of Rowley , nor in the account of Rowley's works is any mention made of his conjunction with Shakspeare in any play . King John was ...
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... play have the title of The Life and Death of King John , yet the action of it begins at the thirty - fourth year of his life , and takes in only some transactions of his reign to the time of his demise , being an interval of about ...
... play have the title of The Life and Death of King John , yet the action of it begins at the thirty - fourth year of his life , and takes in only some transactions of his reign to the time of his demise , being an interval of about ...
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Page 232 - Grief fills the room up of .my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me ; Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 87 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair. And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature...
Page 92 - Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear ; And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, , Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withaL Enter an Attendant.
Page 483 - When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough.
Page 105 - 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. 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 40 As this which now I draw.
Page 329 - And that small model of the barren earth, Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For heaven's sake, let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings : How some have been depos'd, some slain in war; Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd ; Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd ; All murder'd : For within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps death his court : and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning...
Page 132 - 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 murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 93 - Stop up the access and passage to remorse ; > That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect, and it ! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief...
Page 472 - tis no matter ; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then ? No. What is honour ? A word. What is in that word, honour ? What is that honour ? Air 4. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died o
Page 329 - No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. Let's choose executors, and talk of wills; And yet not so,for what can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground?