The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Dr. Johnson, G. Steevens, and Others, Volume 3H. Durell, 1817 |
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... speak as small as you will . Bot . An I may hide my face , let me play Thisby too : I'll speak in a monstrous little voice ; -- Thisne , Thisne , - Ah , Pyramus , my lover dear ; thy Thisby dear ! and lady dear ! Quin . No , no ; you ...
... speak as small as you will . Bot . An I may hide my face , let me play Thisby too : I'll speak in a monstrous little voice ; -- Thisne , Thisne , - Ah , Pyramus , my lover dear ; thy Thisby dear ! and lady dear ! Quin . No , no ; you ...
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... speaking . RITSON . [ 9 ] Sheen , shining , bright , gay . To square here is to quarrel . The French word contrecarrer has the same meaning . JOHNSON . It is somewhat whimsical , that the glasiers use the words square and quarrel as ...
... speaking . RITSON . [ 9 ] Sheen , shining , bright , gay . To square here is to quarrel . The French word contrecarrer has the same meaning . JOHNSON . It is somewhat whimsical , that the glasiers use the words square and quarrel as ...
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... speak'st aright ; I am that merry wanderer of the night . I jest to Oberon , and make him smile , When I a fat and bean - fed horse beguile , Neighing in likeness of a filly foal : And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl , In very ...
... speak'st aright ; I am that merry wanderer of the night . I jest to Oberon , and make him smile , When I a fat and bean - fed horse beguile , Neighing in likeness of a filly foal : And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl , In very ...
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... speak openly , either in praise or dispraise . All this agrees with Mary queen of Scots , and with no other . Queen Elizabeth could not bear to hear her commended ; and her successor would not forgive her satyrist . But the poet has so ...
... speak openly , either in praise or dispraise . All this agrees with Mary queen of Scots , and with no other . Queen Elizabeth could not bear to hear her commended ; and her successor would not forgive her satyrist . But the poet has so ...
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... speak , when there is no mention of their entering : they are designed the poet to be supposed on the stage during the greatest part of the remainder of ae play ; and to mix , as they please , as spirits , with the other actors ; and ...
... speak , when there is no mention of their entering : they are designed the poet to be supposed on the stage during the greatest part of the remainder of ae play ; and to mix , as they please , as spirits , with the other actors ; and ...
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Page 61 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen ; man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
Page 63 - Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; 20 Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear!
Page 28 - Fetch me that flower ; the herb I show'd thee once : The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid Will make or man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees.
Page 61 - I had — but man is but a patched fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart...
Page 173 - Is my report to his great worthiness. Ros. Another of these students at that time Was there with him : if I have heard a truth, Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Page 236 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Page 63 - More strange than true : I never may believe These antique fables nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact.