The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 4F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... folio , And . seems advanced without any proof , only to give a greater licence to criticism . JOHNSON . Mr. Pope , when he published his edition of these plays , was , I believe , very little acquainted with the ancient dramatick ...
... folio , And . seems advanced without any proof , only to give a greater licence to criticism . JOHNSON . Mr. Pope , when he published his edition of these plays , was , I believe , very little acquainted with the ancient dramatick ...
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... folio , not understanding this , altered your to her , which has been fol- lowed in all the subsequent editions . The old copy is certainly right . The meaning is , -She being so hard to me who was the bearer of your mind , fear she ...
... folio , not understanding this , altered your to her , which has been fol- lowed in all the subsequent editions . The old copy is certainly right . The meaning is , -She being so hard to me who was the bearer of your mind , fear she ...
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... folio , the words which are above explained being " to him unintelligible . " MALONE . 4 -you have TESTERN'D me ; ] You have gratified me with a tester , testern , or testen , that is , with a sixpence . JOHNSON . The old reading is ...
... folio , the words which are above explained being " to him unintelligible . " MALONE . 4 -you have TESTERN'D me ; ] You have gratified me with a tester , testern , or testen , that is , with a sixpence . JOHNSON . The old reading is ...
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... folio , ye . 9 - a goodly BROKER ! ] A broker was used for matchmaker , sometimes for a procuress . JOHNSON . So , in Daniel's Complaint of Rosamond , 1599 : " And flie ( o flie ) these bed - brokers unclean , " The monsters of our sex ...
... folio , ye . 9 - a goodly BROKER ! ] A broker was used for matchmaker , sometimes for a procuress . JOHNSON . So , in Daniel's Complaint of Rosamond , 1599 : " And flie ( o flie ) these bed - brokers unclean , " The monsters of our sex ...
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... folio . MALONE . 9 Indeed , I bid the base for Proteus . ] The speaker here turns the allusion ( which her mistress employed ) from the base in musick to a country exercise , bid the base : in which some pursue , and others are made ...
... folio . MALONE . 9 Indeed , I bid the base for Proteus . ] The speaker here turns the allusion ( which her mistress employed ) from the base in musick to a country exercise , bid the base : in which some pursue , and others are made ...
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Page 390 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Page 20 - I have no other but a woman's reason : I think him so, because I think him so.
Page 283 - Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are.
Page 53 - Not for the world : why, man, she is mine own ; And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
Page 380 - You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, You common people of the skies; What are you when the moon shall rise?