The plays of William Shakspeare, accurately pr. from the text of mr. Steevens's last ed., with a selection of the most important notes [collected by J. Nichols]. |
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... juft knighted him by that name . The modern editors arbitrarily read , Sir Robert . Faulconbridge is now entertaining himself with ideas of greatnefs , fuggefted by his recent knighthood.- Good den , fir Richard , he fuppofes to be the ...
... juft knighted him by that name . The modern editors arbitrarily read , Sir Robert . Faulconbridge is now entertaining himself with ideas of greatnefs , fuggefted by his recent knighthood.- Good den , fir Richard , he fuppofes to be the ...
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... juft and charitable war . K. Phi . Well then , to work ; our cannon shall be bent Against the brows of this refifting town . Call for our chiefeft men of difcipline , To cull the plots of beft advantages : -9 We'll lay before this town ...
... juft and charitable war . K. Phi . Well then , to work ; our cannon shall be bent Against the brows of this refifting town . Call for our chiefeft men of difcipline , To cull the plots of beft advantages : -9 We'll lay before this town ...
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... juft and lineal entrance to our own ! If not ; bleed France , and peace ascend to heaven ! Whiles we , God's wrathful agent , do correct Their pround contempt that beat his peace to heaven . K. Phi . Peace be to England ; if that war ...
... juft and lineal entrance to our own ! If not ; bleed France , and peace ascend to heaven ! Whiles we , God's wrathful agent , do correct Their pround contempt that beat his peace to heaven . K. Phi . Peace be to England ; if that war ...
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... juft and beautiful . JOHNSON . 3 The English herald falls fomewhat below his antagonist . Silver ar mour gilt with blood is a poor image . Yet our author has it again in Macbeth : -Here lay Duncan , " His filver skin lac'd with his ...
... juft and beautiful . JOHNSON . 3 The English herald falls fomewhat below his antagonist . Silver ar mour gilt with blood is a poor image . Yet our author has it again in Macbeth : -Here lay Duncan , " His filver skin lac'd with his ...
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... juft - borne arms , We'll put thee down , ' gainst whom these arms we bear , Or add a royal number to the dead ; Gracing the fcroll , that tells of this war's lofs , With flaughter coupled to the name of kings . Baft . Ha , majefty ...
... juft - borne arms , We'll put thee down , ' gainst whom these arms we bear , Or add a royal number to the dead ; Gracing the fcroll , that tells of this war's lofs , With flaughter coupled to the name of kings . Baft . Ha , majefty ...
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Page 438 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 361 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of • it. Honour is a mere scutcheon : and so ends my catechism.
Page 116 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 627 - Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered, — We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
Page 361 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 547 - Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions, Setting endeavour in continual motion ; To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, Obedience : for so work the...
Page 253 - He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box...
Page 439 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?