The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 4R. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 54
Page
William Shakespeare James Boswell. THE PLAYS AND POEMS OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE , WITH THE CORRECTIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF VARIOUS COMMENTATORS : COMPREHENDING A Life of the Poet , AND AN ENLARGED HISTORY OF THE STAGE , BY THE LATE EDMOND ...
William Shakespeare James Boswell. THE PLAYS AND POEMS OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE , WITH THE CORRECTIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF VARIOUS COMMENTATORS : COMPREHENDING A Life of the Poet , AND AN ENLARGED HISTORY OF THE STAGE , BY THE LATE EDMOND ...
Page 13
... correction was made by Mr. Pope . In Antony and Cleopatra , Act . V. Sc . I. , we have in the old copy - For Cæsar cannot leave to be ungentle - for live to be ungentle . MALONE . 4 MADE wit with musing weak , ] The construction is ...
... correction was made by Mr. Pope . In Antony and Cleopatra , Act . V. Sc . I. , we have in the old copy - For Cæsar cannot leave to be ungentle - for live to be ungentle . MALONE . 4 MADE wit with musing weak , ] The construction is ...
Page 18
... corrected by the editor of the second folio . MALONE . 66 Mr. H. White , in Mr. Steevens's edition of 1803 , quotes a passage from one of Latimer's sermons [ preached at Stamford in 1750 ] to show that a tester was in Latimer's time of ...
... corrected by the editor of the second folio . MALONE . 66 Mr. H. White , in Mr. Steevens's edition of 1803 , quotes a passage from one of Latimer's sermons [ preached at Stamford in 1750 ] to show that a tester was in Latimer's time of ...
Page 23
... corrected in the second folio . MALONE . 9 Indeed , I bid the base for Proteus . ] The speaker here turns the allusion ( which her mistress employed ) from the base in musick to a country exercise , bid the base : in which some pursue ...
... corrected in the second folio . MALONE . 9 Indeed , I bid the base for Proteus . ] The speaker here turns the allusion ( which her mistress employed ) from the base in musick to a country exercise , bid the base : in which some pursue ...
Page 50
... correction o , * First folio , emperious . 5 WHOSE high imperious thoughts- ] For whose I read those . I have contemned love and am punished . Those high thoughts , by which I exalted myself above human passions or frailties , have ...
... correction o , * First folio , emperious . 5 WHOSE high imperious thoughts- ] For whose I read those . I have contemned love and am punished . Those high thoughts , by which I exalted myself above human passions or frailties , have ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
alludes Amadis de Gaula ancient Antipholus Armado authentick copy beauty believe BIRON BOSWELL BOYET called comedy Comedy of Errors Costard doth Dromio DUKE edition editor emendation Enter Ephesus error Exeunt Exit fair fool Gentlemen Gentlemen of Verona give grace hair hast hath heart heaven JOHNSON Julia King Henry lady LAUNCE letter lord Love's Love's Labour's Lost madam MALONE MASON master means Merchant of Venice merry metre mistress MOTH musick never oath observed old copy passage play poet praise pray Princess printed Proteus quarto rhyme romances scene second folio sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's signifies Silvia Sonnet speak speech SPEED STEEVENS suppose sweet tell thee THEOBALD thou art Thurio TYRWHITT Valentine Venus and Adonis Verona verse WARBURTON word write
Popular passages
Page 390 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Page 20 - I have no other but a woman's reason : I think him so, because I think him so.
Page 53 - Not for the world : why, man, she is mine own ; And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
Page 380 - You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, You common people of the skies; What are you when the moon shall rise?
Page 100 - Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her ? Holy, fair, and wise is she ; The Heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be. Is she kind as she is fair, — For beauty lives with kindness ? Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness ; And, being help'd, inhabits there. Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling; She excels each mortal thing Upon the dull earth dwelling...