Notes Upon Some of the Obscure Passages in Shakespeare's Plays: With Remarks Upon the Explanations and Amendments of the Commentators in the Editions of 1785, 1790, 1793W. Bulmer and Company, 1805 - 375 pages |
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Page 194
... Monk Mason . P. 10. - 453. - 271 . Cant . The king is full of grace , and fair regard . Ely . And a true lover of the holy church . Cant . The courses of his youth promis'd it not . The breath no sooner left his father's body , But that ...
... Monk Mason . P. 10. - 453. - 271 . Cant . The king is full of grace , and fair regard . Ely . And a true lover of the holy church . Cant . The courses of his youth promis'd it not . The breath no sooner left his father's body , But that ...
Page 242
... Monk Mason and Malone . P. 336. - 6. - 465 . Pain . You are rapt , sir , in some work , some dedication To the great lord . Poet . A thing slipp'd idly from me . Our poesy is as a gum , which oozes From whence ' tis nourished . I think ...
... Monk Mason and Malone . P. 336. - 6. - 465 . Pain . You are rapt , sir , in some work , some dedication To the great lord . Poet . A thing slipp'd idly from me . Our poesy is as a gum , which oozes From whence ' tis nourished . I think ...
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... Monk Mason and Ritson are right . P. 116. - 410. - 387 . Bru . The last of all the Romans , fare thee well ! It is impossible , that ever Rome Should breed thy fellow . I agree with Mr. Steevens . ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA . J. and S. 1785 ...
... Monk Mason and Ritson are right . P. 116. - 410. - 387 . Bru . The last of all the Romans , fare thee well ! It is impossible , that ever Rome Should breed thy fellow . I agree with Mr. Steevens . ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA . J. and S. 1785 ...
Page 286
... Monk Mason . Eno . P. 182. - 470. — 478 . on each side her , Stood pretty dimpled boys , like smiling cupids , With diverse - colour'd fans , whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool , And what they undid ...
... Monk Mason . Eno . P. 182. - 470. — 478 . on each side her , Stood pretty dimpled boys , like smiling cupids , With diverse - colour'd fans , whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool , And what they undid ...
Page 288
... Mason is right . P. 205. - 490. - 512 . 1 Serv . To be call'd into a huge sphere , and not to be seen to move in't , are the holes where eyes should be , which pitifully disaster the cheeks . This is rightly explained by Malone and Monk ...
... Mason is right . P. 205. - 490. - 512 . 1 Serv . To be call'd into a huge sphere , and not to be seen to move in't , are the holes where eyes should be , which pitifully disaster the cheeks . This is rightly explained by Malone and Monk ...
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agree with Malone Apemantus appears blood Cæsar certainly right clearly right Coriolanus Cymbeline death doth doubt Duke edition of 1793 explained by Dr explained by Malone eyes Falstaff father fear fool friends hath heart heaven Heron honour Iago Ibid incline to believe incline to read incline to think Johnson is right Johnson's explanation Julius Cæsar king lady Lear lord Macb Macbeth Malone is right Malone's explanation means modern editors Monk Mason night noble old reading Othello passage prefer the reading quarto reading is right right word rightly ex rightly explained Ritson seems sense Shakespeare Sir Thomas Hanmer speak speech stand Steevens is right Steevens's explanation suppose sure sweet thee Theobald Theobald's emendation think Dr think Malone think Theobald's thou art thought tion tongue true explanation true reading Tybalt Tyrwhitt understand Warburton William Davenant Winter's Tale
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Page 110 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Page 111 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Page 328 - No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never!
Page 278 - For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech To stir men's blood.
Page 343 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Page 179 - 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: this earth, that bears thee dead, Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.
Page 332 - O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name! Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
Page 204 - HUNG be the heavens with black , yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky ; And with them scourge the bad revolting stars, That have consented unto Henry's death ! Henry the fifth, too famous to live long ! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.
Page 132 - 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 332 - O, speak again, bright angel ! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wond'ring eyes Of mortals, that fall back to gaze on him, When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds, And sails upon the bosom of the air.