The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, with notes original and selected by S.W. Singer, and a life of the poet by C. Symmons, Part 25, Volume 10 |
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... light steals home my heavy son , And private in his chamber pens himself ; Shuts up his windows , locks fair daylight out , And makes himself an artificial night : Black and portentous must this humour prove , Unless good counsel may ...
... light steals home my heavy son , And private in his chamber pens himself ; Shuts up his windows , locks fair daylight out , And makes himself an artificial night : Black and portentous must this humour prove , Unless good counsel may ...
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... light , Now joy thy time before thy sweet be done . ' These lines add great support to Theobald's emendation . There are few passages in the poet where so great an improvement of language is obtained by so slight a deviation from the ...
... light , Now joy thy time before thy sweet be done . ' These lines add great support to Theobald's emendation . There are few passages in the poet where so great an improvement of language is obtained by so slight a deviation from the ...
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... light to beare ! A vertue fraught with vice ! ' & c . Immediately taken from the Romaunt of the Rose : - Love it is an hateful pees , A free aquitaunce without relees , - An heavie burthen light to beare , ' & c . This kind of ...
... light to beare ! A vertue fraught with vice ! ' & c . Immediately taken from the Romaunt of the Rose : - Love it is an hateful pees , A free aquitaunce without relees , - An heavie burthen light to beare , ' & c . This kind of ...
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... light the tapers , urge the fire , And bid the joyless day retire . ' 16 i . e . tell me gravely , in seriousness . 17 As this play was written in the reign of Queen Elizabeth , these speeches of Romeo may be regarded as an oblique com ...
... light the tapers , urge the fire , And bid the joyless day retire . ' 16 i . e . tell me gravely , in seriousness . 17 As this play was written in the reign of Queen Elizabeth , these speeches of Romeo may be regarded as an oblique com ...
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... light : Such comfort , as do lusty young men feel 2 Fille de terre is the old French phrase for an heiress . Earth is likewise put for lands , i . e . landed estate , in other old plays . But Mason suggests that earth may here mean ...
... light : Such comfort , as do lusty young men feel 2 Fille de terre is the old French phrase for an heiress . Earth is likewise put for lands , i . e . landed estate , in other old plays . But Mason suggests that earth may here mean ...
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Page 247 - O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 50 - And yet I wish but for the thing I have: My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Page 378 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: Which I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate.
Page 264 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe ? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Page 340 - 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 174 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on ; and yet, within a month — Let me not think on't. — Frailty, thy name is woman ! A little month!
Page 286 - Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain convocation of [politic] worms* are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.
Page 341 - I've done you wrong ; But pardon 't, as you are a gentleman. This presence knows, And you must needs have heard, how I am punish'd With sore distraction. What I have done, That might your nature, honour, and exception, Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness. Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes ? Never Hamlet : If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away, And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes, Then Hamlet does it not ; Hamlet denies it. Who does it then ? His madness. If't be so, Hamlet is of the faction...
Page 32 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid. Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut , Made by the joiner squirrel , or old grub , Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Page 247 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure.