Remarks, Critical, Conjectural, and Explanatory, Upon the Plays of Shakspeare: Resulting from a Collation of the Early Copies, with that of Johnson and Steevens, Ed. by Isaac Reed, Esq., Together with Some Valuable Extracts from the Mss. of the Late Right Honourable John, Lord Chedworth, Issue 2J. Wright, 1805 |
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... doth bear me hard ; but he loves Brutus : " If I were Brutus now , and he were Cassius , " He should not humour me . ” Cassius is a selfish moralist ; he would not be tempted to betray his friend , though he advises Brutus to do so ...
... doth bear me hard ; but he loves Brutus : " If I were Brutus now , and he were Cassius , " He should not humour me . ” Cassius is a selfish moralist ; he would not be tempted to betray his friend , though he advises Brutus to do so ...
Page 18
... doth not wrong but with just cause . " I wish that Mr. Tyrwhitt , who undertook to defend this expression , as it is supposed origi- nally to have stood , had favoured us with an ex- ample , in any other English author , of " wrong's ...
... doth not wrong but with just cause . " I wish that Mr. Tyrwhitt , who undertook to defend this expression , as it is supposed origi- nally to have stood , had favoured us with an ex- ample , in any other English author , of " wrong's ...
Page 63
... doth loudly call upon friend Amner to signify unto that gentleman's erratic imagination the plain road of the poet's meaning . -It was of little consequence whether Octavia's voice was said to be high or low , Cleopatra would be sure to ...
... doth loudly call upon friend Amner to signify unto that gentleman's erratic imagination the plain road of the poet's meaning . -It was of little consequence whether Octavia's voice was said to be high or low , Cleopatra would be sure to ...
Page 79
... doth melt : My lord . " A word is wanting : I away . " suppose was it " melt " O wither'd is the garland of the war . Lee has imitated this in Theodosius : 66 66 O you have given A blight to the big blossom of the war . " " The ...
... doth melt : My lord . " A word is wanting : I away . " suppose was it " melt " O wither'd is the garland of the war . Lee has imitated this in Theodosius : 66 66 O you have given A blight to the big blossom of the war . " " The ...
Page 86
... doth most challenge it . " I would adopt the alteration in the folio , and read : " Where nature doth with merit challenge . " And regulate the metre thus : " Where nature doth with merit challenge it . " Gonĕril , our eldest born ...
... doth most challenge it . " I would adopt the alteration in the folio , and read : " Where nature doth with merit challenge . " And regulate the metre thus : " Where nature doth with merit challenge it . " Gonĕril , our eldest born ...
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