Shakspeare's Genius Justified: Being Restorations and Illustrations of Seven Hundred Passages in Shakspeare's Plays: which Have Afforded Abundant Scope for Critical Animadversion; and Hitherto Held at Defiance the Penetration of All Shakspeare's Commentators, Volume 10J. Johnson, 1819 - 470 pages |
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... thou burst thy wind , if room enough ! Ariel has so disposed the wind , that the ship is in danger of being driven against the Island ; and which , as Adrian observes in Act II . sc . i . is " almost inacces- sible . " This being ...
... thou burst thy wind , if room enough ! Ariel has so disposed the wind , that the ship is in danger of being driven against the Island ; and which , as Adrian observes in Act II . sc . i . is " almost inacces- sible . " This being ...
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... thou tortoise ! When ? Prospero calls Caliban , who is a rude monster , from his cell : he is a mass of flesh , destitute of reason ; and who , like the tortoise , merely eats , drinks , and crawls about , in sluggish inactivity . In ...
... thou tortoise ! When ? Prospero calls Caliban , who is a rude monster , from his cell : he is a mass of flesh , destitute of reason ; and who , like the tortoise , merely eats , drinks , and crawls about , in sluggish inactivity . In ...
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... thou tortoise wen ! i . e . Thou animated excrescence ! Prospero considers him no nearer to human nature than is that protuberance called a wen . In the Second Part of KING HENRY IV . Act I. sc . ii . we have a passage that puts this ...
... thou tortoise wen ! i . e . Thou animated excrescence ! Prospero considers him no nearer to human nature than is that protuberance called a wen . In the Second Part of KING HENRY IV . Act I. sc . ii . we have a passage that puts this ...
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... thou the flower there ? Welcome , Wanderer . According to the present reading - Welcome Wanderer , is made the name of the flower ; and which is strength- ened by Puck's direct reply : - " Ay , there it is . " - Surely the salutation ...
... thou the flower there ? Welcome , Wanderer . According to the present reading - Welcome Wanderer , is made the name of the flower ; and which is strength- ened by Puck's direct reply : - " Ay , there it is . " - Surely the salutation ...
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... thou a while but here , And by and by I will to thee appear . Where are the two lines wanting ? -What sense can be clearer ? SCENE II . - page 419 . LYSANDER . You are unkind , Demetrius ; be not so ; For you love Hermia , this , you ...
... thou a while but here , And by and by I will to thee appear . Where are the two lines wanting ? -What sense can be clearer ? SCENE II . - page 419 . LYSANDER . You are unkind , Demetrius ; be not so ; For you love Hermia , this , you ...
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Page 280 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood ! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy (Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips, To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue...
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Page 30 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 65 - Some men there are love not a gaping pig; Some, that are mad if they behold a cat; And others, when the bagpipe sings i...
Page 340 - 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...
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