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... good , But graciously to know I am no better . Ang . Thus wisdom wishes to
appear most bright , When it ... Isab . So. Ang . And his offence is so , as it
appears Accountant to the law upon that pain , 3 Isab . 71 > me intreat you speak
the former ...
... good , But graciously to know I am no better . Ang . Thus wisdom wishes to
appear most bright , When it ... Isab . So. Ang . And his offence is so , as it
appears Accountant to the law upon that pain , 3 Isab . 71 > me intreat you speak
the former ...
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Neither of these passages appear to contain a very ele . gant allusion . ... Dr.
Fàrmer assures me he has seen the word evil used in this sense by our ancient
writers ; and it appears from Harrington's Metamorphosis of Ajax , & c . that privies
...
Neither of these passages appear to contain a very ele . gant allusion . ... Dr.
Fàrmer assures me he has seen the word evil used in this sense by our ancient
writers ; and it appears from Harrington's Metamorphosis of Ajax , & c . that privies
...
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Daly 1 The pronoun thou , referring to only one antecedent , appears to me
strongly to support such a regulation . MALONE . The explanation suggested by
Mr. Malone ap . proaches , but does not fully reach the object of the poet's
allusion .
Daly 1 The pronoun thou , referring to only one antecedent , appears to me
strongly to support such a regulation . MALONE . The explanation suggested by
Mr. Malone ap . proaches , but does not fully reach the object of the poet's
allusion .
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His punctuation is right , but the alteration , small as it is , appears more than was
wanted . Usury may be used by an easy license for the professors of usury .
JOHNSON . 304 -- father : rn to Elbow's blundering address of good father friar , i
. e ...
His punctuation is right , but the alteration , small as it is , appears more than was
wanted . Usury may be used by an easy license for the professors of usury .
JOHNSON . 304 -- father : rn to Elbow's blundering address of good father friar , i
. e ...
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A motion generative means a puppet of the masculine gender ; a thing that
appears to have those powers of which it is not in reality possessed . STEEVENS
. much detected for women ; appears so like the language of Dogberry , that at
first I ...
A motion generative means a puppet of the masculine gender ; a thing that
appears to have those powers of which it is not in reality possessed . STEEVENS
. much detected for women ; appears so like the language of Dogberry , that at
first I ...
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Page 55 - Claudio ; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 15 - From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty : As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint : Our natures do pursue, (Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,) A thirsty evil ; and when we drink, we die.
Page 39 - But man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep ; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Page 8 - Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 40 - That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your bosom ; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know That 's like my brother's fault : if it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his. Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life.
Page 112 - I'll speak all. They say, best men are moulded out of faults ; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad : so may my husband.
Page 37 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Page 20 - Stands at a guard 4 with envy ; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone : Hence shall we see, If power change purpose, what our seemers be.
Page 37 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 24 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
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| Title | Measure for measure. Comedy of errors Volume 5 of The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All the Various Commentators; Printed Complete from the Best Editions of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | Printed for, and under the direction of, John Bell, 1788 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 May 2007 |
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