Remarks, Critical, Conjectural, and Explanatory, Upon the Plays of Shakspeare: Resulting from a Collation of the Early Copies, with that of Johnson and Steevens, Ed. by Isaac Reed, Esq., Together with Some Valuable Extracts from the Mss. of the Late Right Honourable John, Lord Chedworth, Issue 1J. Wright, 1805 |
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... expression , should at once , perhaps , with- out scruple or remark , be set right in the text . ( a ) The other , more compendious as well as mischievous class of errors , are those indi- gests of grammar , both in words and phrases ...
... expression , should at once , perhaps , with- out scruple or remark , be set right in the text . ( a ) The other , more compendious as well as mischievous class of errors , are those indi- gests of grammar , both in words and phrases ...
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... expressing : from this time , place , or cause ; from that time , place , or cause ; from which time , place , or cause , & c . and the introduction of the ablative preposition is no less impertinent than would be that of the dative ...
... expressing : from this time , place , or cause ; from that time , place , or cause ; from which time , place , or cause , & c . and the introduction of the ablative preposition is no less impertinent than would be that of the dative ...
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... expression is elliptical : who ( as ) they suppose is drown'd ; i . e . who is drown'd ( as they suppose . ) 121. " And with him there lie mudded . 66 - But one fiend at a time . " I am ready to agree with Mr. Steevens that where , as ...
... expression is elliptical : who ( as ) they suppose is drown'd ; i . e . who is drown'd ( as they suppose . ) 121. " And with him there lie mudded . 66 - But one fiend at a time . " I am ready to agree with Mr. Steevens that where , as ...
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... expression that with much less outrage , I believe , may be styled nonsensical ; such a thing , if it could exist , being an object not of sight , or " shew , " but of feeling . Mr. Upton would read , ( and Dr. Johnson adds , not ...
... expression that with much less outrage , I believe , may be styled nonsensical ; such a thing , if it could exist , being an object not of sight , or " shew , " but of feeling . Mr. Upton would read , ( and Dr. Johnson adds , not ...
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... expression in his Elfrida . 127 . 66 Whose brightest eye " But emulates the diamond's blaze . ” " Why now let me die , for I have liv'd long enough . " I see no profaneness nor indecency in this passage , and do not believe that ...
... expression in his Elfrida . 127 . 66 Whose brightest eye " But emulates the diamond's blaze . ” " Why now let me die , for I have liv'd long enough . " I see no profaneness nor indecency in this passage , and do not believe that ...
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66 SCENE accentuation admit allusion appears Banquo believe better blood called censure certainly conjecture Coriolanus correction corruption Cymbeline death dissyllable doth Duke ellipsis emendation expression eyes Falstaff fear give grace grief Hamlet hand hast hath heart heaven hemistic Henry VI honour Hotspur hypermeter implies instance Johnson Julius Cæsar King Henry King Lear lady LORD CHEDWORTH Macbeth Malone Malone's Mason meaning measure Measure for Measure metre Milton murder nature never noun numbers occurs omitted Othello Paradise Lost passage peace perhaps phrase play pleonasm poet poet's pronoun quarto remarks Richard Romeo and Juliet seems sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew sleep soul speak speech stand Steevens Steevens's strange STRUTT suppose sure sweet sword syllable Tacitus tell thee thing thou thought tion tongue transposition trisyllable true uttered verb verse virtue wanting Warburton word
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Page 188 - Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off ; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.
Page 188 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...
Page 346 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 24 - But what my power might else exact, — like one Who having unto truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie...
Page 188 - He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Page 349 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
Page 44 - The seasons alter : hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose ; And on old Hyems' chin, and icy crown, An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set.
Page 254 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Page 440 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Page 199 - I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?