“The” Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Mr. Steeven's Last Edition, with a Selection of the Most Important Notes, Volume 12Gerhard Fleischer the Younger, 1808 |
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Page 154
... sense , without any reference to musick . MALONE . P. 6 12-15 , And therefore , since I cannot prove a lover , & c . ] Shakspeare very diligently inculcates , that the wick- edness of Richard proceeded from his deformity , from the envy ...
... sense , without any reference to musick . MALONE . P. 6 12-15 , And therefore , since I cannot prove a lover , & c . ] Shakspeare very diligently inculcates , that the wick- edness of Richard proceeded from his deformity , from the envy ...
Page 155
... sense to another , words at length obtain a mean- ing entirely foreign to their original etymology . STEEVENS . P. 9 , first 1. We are the Queen's abjects , ] That is , not the Queen's subjects , whom she might protect , but her abjects ...
... sense to another , words at length obtain a mean- ing entirely foreign to their original etymology . STEEVENS . P. 9 , first 1. We are the Queen's abjects , ] That is , not the Queen's subjects , whom she might protect , but her abjects ...
Page 158
... sense , in answer to this line . JOHNSON . I believe the obvious sense is the true one . STEEVENS . Our author , I think , in another place uses effect , for efficient cause . MALone . P. 17 , 1. 10. Would they were basilisks , tq ...
... sense , in answer to this line . JOHNSON . I believe the obvious sense is the true one . STEEVENS . Our author , I think , in another place uses effect , for efficient cause . MALone . P. 17 , 1. 10. Would they were basilisks , tq ...
Page 163
... off the outside or rind . Thus they say in Devonshire , to pill an apple , rather than pare it ; and Shirley uses the word precisely in this sense . HENLEY . P. 27 , 1. 27. gentle villain , ] We KING RICHARD III . 163.
... off the outside or rind . Thus they say in Devonshire , to pill an apple , rather than pare it ; and Shirley uses the word precisely in this sense . HENLEY . P. 27 , 1. 27. gentle villain , ] We KING RICHARD III . 163.
Page 165
... name of yore . These metaphors I us'd with other more , As cat and rat , the half - names of the rest , To hide the sense that they so wrong- ly wrest ... That Lovel was once the common name of a dog KING RICHARD II . 165.
... name of yore . These metaphors I us'd with other more , As cat and rat , the half - names of the rest , To hide the sense that they so wrong- ly wrest ... That Lovel was once the common name of a dog KING RICHARD II . 165.
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Page 6 - Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to...
Page 139 - What do I fear? Myself? There's none else by. Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I. Is there a murderer here? No— yes, I am. Then fly. What, from myself? Great reason why— Lest I revenge. What, myself upon myself! Alack, I love myself. Wherefore? For any good That I myself have done unto myself? O, no! Alas, I rather hate myself For hateful deeds committed by myself!
Page 139 - The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight. Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. What! do I fear myself? there's none else by Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.
Page 36 - ... ferryman which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. The first that there did greet my stranger soul, Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick ; Who cried aloud, " What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence...
Page 263 - ... foot. The country people flock from all sides many miles off, to hear and see it. For they have therein devils and devices, to delight as well the eye as the ear.
Page 139 - I am a villain; yet I lie, I am not. Fool, of thyself speak well. Fool, do not flatter. My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder, in the dir'st degree; All several sins, all us'd in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all 'Guilty! guilty!
Page 263 - ... the players conne not their parts without booke, but are prompted by one called the ordinary, who followeth at their back with the book in his hand, and telleth them softly what they must pronounce aloud.
Page 268 - Lack'st thou cards, friend, or dice? I will teach thee [to] cheat, child, to cog, lie and swagger, And ever and anon to be drawing forth thy dagger: To swear by...
Page 35 - All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes,) reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.
Page 6 - Why I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant on mine own deformity. And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover To entertain these fair well-spoken days, . I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.