The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson, Volume 6J. and R. Tonson, 1765 |
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... . Warburton's own explanation of his amendment confutes it ; if beft be a regal command , they were , by the grant of Lear , to have rather the best than the ex- ecution . This Coronet part between you . Kent . Royal Lear This KING LEAR ,
... . Warburton's own explanation of his amendment confutes it ; if beft be a regal command , they were , by the grant of Lear , to have rather the best than the ex- ecution . This Coronet part between you . Kent . Royal Lear This KING LEAR ,
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... latter , has occafioned all the obfcurity of the paffage . WARBURTON . Theobald only inferted the parenthefis ; he found made gond in the best copy of 1623. Dr. War- 8 better to offer . The courtesy of Nations ] KING LEA R.
... latter , has occafioned all the obfcurity of the paffage . WARBURTON . Theobald only inferted the parenthefis ; he found made gond in the best copy of 1623. Dr. War- 8 better to offer . The courtesy of Nations ] KING LEA R.
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... best object , The argument of your praife , balm of your age , The beft , the deareft , fhould in this trice of time Commit a thing fo monftrous , to dismantle So many folds of favour ! fure , her offence Must be of fuch unnatural ...
... best object , The argument of your praife , balm of your age , The beft , the deareft , fhould in this trice of time Commit a thing fo monftrous , to dismantle So many folds of favour ! fure , her offence Must be of fuch unnatural ...
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... best and foundest of his time hath been but rafh ; then must we look , from his age , to re- ceive not alone the imperfections of long - engrafted 2 And well are worth the Want that you have wanted . ] This is a very obfcure Expreffion ...
... best and foundest of his time hath been but rafh ; then must we look , from his age , to re- ceive not alone the imperfections of long - engrafted 2 And well are worth the Want that you have wanted . ] This is a very obfcure Expreffion ...
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... best characters in this play acknowledge the force of the tars ' influence . But how much the lines following this , are in character , may be feen by that monftrous wifh of Vanini , the Italian Atheift , in his tract De admirandis ...
... best characters in this play acknowledge the force of the tars ' influence . But how much the lines following this , are in character , may be feen by that monftrous wifh of Vanini , the Italian Atheift , in his tract De admirandis ...
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Page 132 - Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is; and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For (as I am a man) I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Page 429 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 423 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale!
Page 26 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun the moon and the stars ; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves thieves and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards liars and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence, and all that we are evil in by a divine thrusting on...
Page 405 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down : and, as they say, Lamentings heard i...
Page 461 - To bed, to bed; there's knocking at the gate: come, come, come, come, give me your hand: what's done cannot be undone: to bed, to bed, to bed.
Page 117 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles: halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yond...
Page 149 - I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. — She's gone for ever ! — I know when one is dead, and when one lives ; She's dead as earth.
Page 392 - Like the poor cat i' the adage? MACB. Prithee, peace. I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. LADY M. What beast was't, then, That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both. They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you.
Page 131 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.