The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 9R. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... phrase occurs in The Tempest : 66 some good instruction give " How I may bear me here . " Sir W. D'Avenant reads , in his alteration of the play : 66 " I may in person a true friar seem . " The sense of the passage ( as Mr. Henley ...
... phrase occurs in The Tempest : 66 some good instruction give " How I may bear me here . " Sir W. D'Avenant reads , in his alteration of the play : 66 " I may in person a true friar seem . " The sense of the passage ( as Mr. Henley ...
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... phrase [ me , & c . ] that , perhaps , obscures this passage , occurs frequently in our author , and particularly in the next scene , where Escalus says : Come me to what was done to her . " — " Make me not your story , " may therefore ...
... phrase [ me , & c . ] that , perhaps , obscures this passage , occurs frequently in our author , and particularly in the next scene , where Escalus says : Come me to what was done to her . " — " Make me not your story , " may therefore ...
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... phrase is employed in Timon of Athens , and else where ; but in the present instance it is used ironically . The meaning of it , when seriously applied to speech , is - This is well delivered , this story is well told . STEEVENS . 2 Why ...
... phrase is employed in Timon of Athens , and else where ; but in the present instance it is used ironically . The meaning of it , when seriously applied to speech , is - This is well delivered , this story is well told . STEEVENS . 2 Why ...
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... phrase occurs again in Cymbeline : " Pósthumus anchors upon Imogen . " STEEVENS . 2 Grown FEAR'D and tedious ; ] We should read seared , i . e . old . So , Shakspeare uses in the sear , to signify old age . WARBURTON . I think fear'd ...
... phrase occurs again in Cymbeline : " Pósthumus anchors upon Imogen . " STEEVENS . 2 Grown FEAR'D and tedious ; ] We should read seared , i . e . old . So , Shakspeare uses in the sear , to signify old age . WARBURTON . I think fear'd ...
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... phrase , 66 the gene- ral , " for the people , continued so late as to the time of Lord Clarendon : as rather to be consented to , than that the general should suffer . " Hist . b . v . p . 530 , 8vo . I therefore adhere to the old ...
... phrase , 66 the gene- ral , " for the people , continued so late as to the time of Lord Clarendon : as rather to be consented to , than that the general should suffer . " Hist . b . v . p . 530 , 8vo . I therefore adhere to the old ...
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Page 480 - tis a lost fear; Man but a rush against Othello's breast, And he retires; — Where should Othello go? — Now, how dost thou look now ? O ill-starr'd wench ! Pale as thy smock ! when we shall meet at compt, This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven, And fiends will snatch at it.
Page 198 - I'll lend you all my life to do you service. Duke. Against all sense you do importune her: Should she kneel down in mercy of this fact, Her brother's ghost his paved bed would break, And take her hence in horror.
Page 256 - And, till she come, as truly as to heaven I do confess the vices of my blood, So justly to your grave ears I'll present How I did thrive in this fair lady's love, And she in mine.
Page 39 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Page 374 - Look, where he comes ! Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Page 102 - And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 261 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange ; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful : She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man...
Page 354 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Page 92 - Be absolute for death; either death, or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life,— If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep...
Page 459 - It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul, — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause. — Yet I'll not shed her blood ; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster.