The Works of William Shakespeare: The Plays Edited from the Folio of MDCXXIII, with Various Readings from All the Editions and All the Commentators, Notes, Introductory Remarks, a Historical Sketch of the Text, an Account of the Rise and Progress of the English Drama, a Memoir of the Poet, and an Essay Upon His Genius, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1865 |
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Page xxi
... ORIGINAL L. The Names of the Principall Actors in all these Playes . Illiam Shakespeare . | Samuel Gilburne . Richard Burbadge . John Hemmings . Auguftine Phillips . William Kempt . Thomas Poope . Robert Armin . William Oftler . Nathan ...
... ORIGINAL L. The Names of the Principall Actors in all these Playes . Illiam Shakespeare . | Samuel Gilburne . Richard Burbadge . John Hemmings . Auguftine Phillips . William Kempt . Thomas Poope . Robert Armin . William Oftler . Nathan ...
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... original letter , as well as the orthography and the arrangement of the pages being imitated in such a manner that proportion is perfectly preserved , and the effect is that of the original volume seen through a concave lens . The Title ...
... original letter , as well as the orthography and the arrangement of the pages being imitated in such a manner that proportion is perfectly preserved , and the effect is that of the original volume seen through a concave lens . The Title ...
Page xxxvi
... original is not known to exist ; and this copy is supposed by Mr. Collier to have been furnished to Lord Ellesmere ( the letter not being addressed to him ) " in order to give him some information respecting the character of the parties ...
... original is not known to exist ; and this copy is supposed by Mr. Collier to have been furnished to Lord Ellesmere ( the letter not being addressed to him ) " in order to give him some information respecting the character of the parties ...
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... original cast of a dra- matic performance contrived by Richard Tarleton , the great low - comedian of that day , who ... original Romeo , Hamlet , Othello , Lear , Macbeth , Pericles , Brutus , Cori- olanus , Prince Henry , Henry V ...
... original cast of a dra- matic performance contrived by Richard Tarleton , the great low - comedian of that day , who ... original Romeo , Hamlet , Othello , Lear , Macbeth , Pericles , Brutus , Cori- olanus , Prince Henry , Henry V ...
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... original performer of Falstaff ; * but this vague and unauthen- tic testimony is worth as little as that of the actor Roberts , in his letter to Pope in 1729 , that Heminge was a tragedian and a printer , Condell being his partner ; and ...
... original performer of Falstaff ; * but this vague and unauthen- tic testimony is worth as little as that of the actor Roberts , in his letter to Pope in 1729 , that Heminge was a tragedian and a printer , Condell being his partner ; and ...
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Page 27 - would it had been done ! Thou didst prevent me ; I had peopled else This isle with Calibans. Pro. Abhorred slave ! Which any print of goodness will not take, Being capable of all ill ! I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour One thing or other : when thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but would'st gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known...
Page 38 - All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have; but nature should bring forth, .Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 75 - And mine shall. Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply Passion as they, be kindlier...
Page 75 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms...
Page 65 - Sour-ey'd disdain, and discord, shall bestrew The union of your bed with weeds so loathly, That you shall hate it both : therefore, take heed, As Hymen's lamps shall light you.
Page 63 - O, it is monstrous! monstrous! Methought, the billows spoke, and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Prosper; it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i" the ooze is bedded ; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded.
Page lxii - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 161 - 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.
Page 75 - Some heavenly music, (which even now I do,) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Page 76 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.