The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 21R. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... play , called Prince of Tyre ; in the Gesta Romanorum , and Copland's prose Romance , he is entitled King . Most of the incidents of the play are found in the Confessio Amantis , and a few of Gower's expres- sions are occasionally ...
... play , called Prince of Tyre ; in the Gesta Romanorum , and Copland's prose Romance , he is entitled King . Most of the incidents of the play are found in the Confessio Amantis , and a few of Gower's expres- sions are occasionally ...
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... play of our author's , perhaps I might say , in the English language , so incorrect as this . The most corrupt of Shakspeare's other dramas , compared with Pericles , is purity itself . The metre is seldom attended to ; verse is ...
... play of our author's , perhaps I might say , in the English language , so incorrect as this . The most corrupt of Shakspeare's other dramas , compared with Pericles , is purity itself . The metre is seldom attended to ; verse is ...
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... play is by no means rare ; and if the reader , like Pericles , should think himself qualified to evolve the intricacies of a riddle , be it remembered , that the editor is not an Antiochus , who would willingly subject him to such a ...
... play is by no means rare ; and if the reader , like Pericles , should think himself qualified to evolve the intricacies of a riddle , be it remembered , that the editor is not an Antiochus , who would willingly subject him to such a ...
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... play of the Life of Pyrocles : " Ars longa , vita brevis ; as they say , " But who inverts that saying , made this play . " MAlone . * Such a theatrical mistake will not appear improbable to the reader who recollects that in the fourth ...
... play of the Life of Pyrocles : " Ars longa , vita brevis ; as they say , " But who inverts that saying , made this play . " MAlone . * Such a theatrical mistake will not appear improbable to the reader who recollects that in the fourth ...
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... play it should seem to be a very frequent practice of the reciter , or transcriber , to supply words which , for some foolish reason or other , were supposed to be wanting . Unskilled in the language of poetry , and more espe- cially in ...
... play it should seem to be a very frequent practice of the reciter , or transcriber , to supply words which , for some foolish reason or other , were supposed to be wanting . Unskilled in the language of poetry , and more espe- cially in ...
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Aaron ancient Antiochus appears Bassianus BAWD BOSWELL BOULT Cleon clown Confessio Amantis corrupt Cymbeline DABORNE daughter dead death Dionyza doth dramas edition emendation emperor Enter Exeunt expression eyes father folio fool Gesta Romanorum give gods Goths Gower Hamlet hand hath heart heaven Helicanus Hinchlow honour King Henry King Lear lady Lavinia lord Lucius Lychorida Lysimachus Macbeth MALONE Marcus Marina MASON means metre mistress musick never night noble Noble Kinsmen old copies read Othello passage perhaps Pericles piece play poet pray prince Prince of Tyre quarto queen revenge Robert Dawes Rome Romeo and Juliet Roselo SATURNINUS scene Shak Shakspeare Shakspeare's Simonides sorrow speak speech STEEVENS suppose sweet Tamora tears tell Thaisa Tharsus thee thine thou art thou hast thought Titus Andronicus TODD tongue Twine's translation Tyre unto Winter's Tale word
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Page 268 - Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods ? Draw near them then in being merciful : Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge, Thrice-noble Titus, spare my first-born son.
Page 170 - And brass eternal slave to mortal rage ; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay ; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away.
Page 136 - 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 102 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Page 316 - For now I stand as one upon a rock, Environ'd with a wilderness of sea ; Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, Expecting ever when some envious surge Will in his brinish bowels swallow him.
Page 139 - With fairest flowers Whilst summer lasts and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor The azured harebell, like thy veins, no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Page 198 - Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety : other women cloy The appetites they feed : but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies : for vilest things Become themselves in her; that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.
Page 89 - Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.
Page 227 - Segnius irritant animos demissa per aurem, Quam quae sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus.