The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 14G. Kearsley [Printed, 1806 |
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... JOHNSON . 26 - toys of desperation , ] Toys for whims . confin'd to fast in fires , ] Chaucer has a similar passage with regard to the punishments of hell . Par- son's Tale , p . 193. Mr. Urry's edition : " And more- over the misese of ...
... JOHNSON . 26 - toys of desperation , ] Toys for whims . confin'd to fast in fires , ] Chaucer has a similar passage with regard to the punishments of hell . Par- son's Tale , p . 193. Mr. Urry's edition : " And more- over the misese of ...
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... Johnson rightly explains disappointed by un- prepared . 31 come , bird , come . ] This is the call which falconers use to their hawk in the air when they would have him come down to them . HANMER . 32 - Danskers- ] Danske ( in Warner's ...
... Johnson rightly explains disappointed by un- prepared . 31 come , bird , come . ] This is the call which falconers use to their hawk in the air when they would have him come down to them . HANMER . 32 - Danskers- ] Danske ( in Warner's ...
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... JOHNSON . 4 Since I proposed a former explanation , I met with a passage in the Isle of Gulls , a comedy , by John Day , 1633 , which proves Dr. Johnson's sense of the word to be not far from the true one : " -twill be a scene of mirth ...
... JOHNSON . 4 Since I proposed a former explanation , I met with a passage in the Isle of Gulls , a comedy , by John Day , 1633 , which proves Dr. Johnson's sense of the word to be not far from the true one : " -twill be a scene of mirth ...
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... JOHNSON . 37 If I had play'd the desk , or table - book ; Or given my heart a working , mute and dumb ; Or look'd upon this love with idle sight ; What might you think ? ] i . e . If either I had conveyed intelligence between them , and ...
... JOHNSON . 37 If I had play'd the desk , or table - book ; Or given my heart a working , mute and dumb ; Or look'd upon this love with idle sight ; What might you think ? ] i . e . If either I had conveyed intelligence between them , and ...
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... JOHNSON . This is a noble emendation , which almost sets the critic on a level with the author . 40 - what lenten entertainment , & c . ] i . e . sparing , like the entertainments given in Lent . STEEVENS . an aiery of children , little ...
... JOHNSON . This is a noble emendation , which almost sets the critic on a level with the author . 40 - what lenten entertainment , & c . ] i . e . sparing , like the entertainments given in Lent . STEEVENS . an aiery of children , little ...
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beseech Bian blood Brabantio Cassio Cyprus daughter dead dear death Denmark Desdemona devil dost thou doth drink Duke Emil Emilia Enter OTHELLO Exeunt Exit eyes fair Farewell father fear fool Fortinbras foul gentleman Ghost give grace Guil Guildenstern Hamlet hand handkerchief Hanmer hath hear heart heaven honest honour Horatio husband i'the Iago is't JOHNSON kill'd King knave lady Laer Laertes lieutenant look lord madam madness marry means Michael Cassio Moor murder nature never night noble Norway o'er Ophelia Osrick play poison'd Polonius Pr'ythee pray Pyrrhus quarto Queen racter revenge Roderigo Rosencrantz Rosencrantz and Guildenstern SCENE sense Shakspeare soul speak speech STEEVENS sweet sword tell thee There's thine thing thou hast thought to-night true Venice villain WARBURTON what's wife word
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Page 156 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all.
Page 282 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Page 34 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Page 353 - No more of that. — I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Page 234 - twas wondrous pitiful : She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man ; she thank'd me, And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake : She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them. This only is the witchcraft I have us'd : Here comes the lady ; let her witness it.
Page 79 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 102 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 94 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
Page 74 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil...
Page 143 - Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?