The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 2C. Bathurst, 1778 |
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... hands of Whetstone produced little more than barren infipid- ity , under the culture of Shakespeare became fertile of entertain- ment . The curious reader will find that the old play of Promos and Caffandra exhibits an almost complete ...
... hands of Whetstone produced little more than barren infipid- ity , under the culture of Shakespeare became fertile of entertain- ment . The curious reader will find that the old play of Promos and Caffandra exhibits an almost complete ...
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... hand ; I'll privily away : I love the people , But do not like to ftage me to their eyes : Though it do well , I do not relish well We have with a leaven'd and prepared choice ] Leaven'd has no sense in this place : we should read ...
... hand ; I'll privily away : I love the people , But do not like to ftage me to their eyes : Though it do well , I do not relish well We have with a leaven'd and prepared choice ] Leaven'd has no sense in this place : we should read ...
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... hand ; fo " artificially attired for a clowne , as I began to call Tarlton's " woonted shape to remembrance . " STEEVENS . -What has he done ? Clown . A veman . ] The ancient meaning of the verb to do , ( though now obsolete ) . may be ...
... hand ; fo " artificially attired for a clowne , as I began to call Tarlton's " woonted shape to remembrance . " STEEVENS . -What has he done ? Clown . A veman . ] The ancient meaning of the verb to do , ( though now obsolete ) . may be ...
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... hand , nothing can be more proper , than to compare perfons of unbridled licentioufnefs to head - strong feeds : and , in this view , bridling the paffions has been a phrase adopted by our best poets . THEOBALD . 8 Which for thefe ...
... hand , nothing can be more proper , than to compare perfons of unbridled licentioufnefs to head - strong feeds : and , in this view , bridling the paffions has been a phrase adopted by our best poets . THEOBALD . 8 Which for thefe ...
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... hand , and hope of action : but we do learn By those that know the very nerves of state , His givings - out were of an infinite distance . From his true - meant defign . Upon his place , And with full line of his authority , 2 . Governs ...
... hand , and hope of action : but we do learn By those that know the very nerves of state , His givings - out were of an infinite distance . From his true - meant defign . Upon his place , And with full line of his authority , 2 . Governs ...
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Page 401 - 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; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor,) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Page 47 - 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 518 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Page 9 - 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 32 - 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.
Page 462 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power; And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Page 339 - The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination, And every lovely organ of her life Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, More moving, delicate, and full of life, Into the eye and prospect of his soul, Than when she liv'd indeed...