The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 21R. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... suppose that he chiefly followed the work of that poet . It is observable that the hero of this tale is , in Gower's poem , as in the present play , called Prince of Tyre ; in the Gesta Romanorum , and Copland's prose Romance , he is ...
... suppose that he chiefly followed the work of that poet . It is observable that the hero of this tale is , in Gower's poem , as in the present play , called Prince of Tyre ; in the Gesta Romanorum , and Copland's prose Romance , he is ...
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... suppose it originally to have possessed . Of the same license I should not have availed myself , had I been employed on any of the undis- puted dramas of our author . Those experiments which we are forbidden to perform on living ...
... suppose it originally to have possessed . Of the same license I should not have availed myself , had I been employed on any of the undis- puted dramas of our author . Those experiments which we are forbidden to perform on living ...
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... suppose these lines , with their context , to have originally stood as follows , I have so given them : " And lords and ladies , of their lives " Have read it as restoratives : 66 ' Purpose to make men glorious ; " Et quo antiquius , eo ...
... suppose these lines , with their context , to have originally stood as follows , I have so given them : " And lords and ladies , of their lives " Have read it as restoratives : 66 ' Purpose to make men glorious ; " Et quo antiquius , eo ...
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... suppose the audi- ence were here entertained with a view of a kind of Temple Bar at Antioch . STEEVENS . 8 What Now ensues . ] The folio - What ensues . The original copy has - What now ensues . 9 - MALONE . my cause who best can ...
... suppose the audi- ence were here entertained with a view of a kind of Temple Bar at Antioch . STEEVENS . 8 What Now ensues . ] The folio - What ensues . The original copy has - What now ensues . 9 - MALONE . my cause who best can ...
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... suppose that she should wish him to succeed in that . The passage is evi- dently corrupt , and should probably be corrected by reading the lines thus : “ In all , save that , may'st thou prove prosperous ! " In all , save that , I wish ...
... suppose that she should wish him to succeed in that . The passage is evi- dently corrupt , and should probably be corrected by reading the lines thus : “ In all , save that , may'st thou prove prosperous ! " In all , save that , I wish ...
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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.