The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 17C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
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... passages were examined , more words would be ne- cessary than the subject is worth ; those who are well acquaint- ed with his works , cannot entertain a doubt on the question.- I will however mention one mode by which it may be easily ...
... passages were examined , more words would be ne- cessary than the subject is worth ; those who are well acquaint- ed with his works , cannot entertain a doubt on the question.- I will however mention one mode by which it may be easily ...
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... passage to the Capitol ; And suffer not dishonour to approach The imperial seat , to virtue consecrate , To justice , " continence , and nobility : But let desert in pure election shine ; And , Romans , fight for freedom in your choice ...
... passage to the Capitol ; And suffer not dishonour to approach The imperial seat , to virtue consecrate , To justice , " continence , and nobility : But let desert in pure election shine ; And , Romans , fight for freedom in your choice ...
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... passage in Ovid : " vadit ad ar- tificem , " and therefore took it for granted that she found him in his tent . Steevens . I have no doubt that the writer of this play had read Euripides in the original . Mr. Steevens justly observes in ...
... passage in Ovid : " vadit ad ar- tificem , " and therefore took it for granted that she found him in his tent . Steevens . I have no doubt that the writer of this play had read Euripides in the original . Mr. Steevens justly observes in ...
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... passage alone would sufficiently convince me , that the play before us was the work of one who was conversant with the Greek tragedies in their original language . We have here a plain allusion to the Ajax of Sophocles , of which no ...
... passage alone would sufficiently convince me , that the play before us was the work of one who was conversant with the Greek tragedies in their original language . We have here a plain allusion to the Ajax of Sophocles , of which no ...
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... passage that Titus Andronicus was not only the work of Shak- speare , but one of his earliest performances , because the strata- gems of his former profession seem to have been yet fresh in his mind . I had made the same observation in ...
... passage that Titus Andronicus was not only the work of Shak- speare , but one of his earliest performances , because the strata- gems of his former profession seem to have been yet fresh in his mind . I had made the same observation in ...
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Page 223 - Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Page 193 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?
Page 220 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 248 - And brass eternal slave to mortal rage ; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state...
Page 191 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Page 149 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 271 - Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety : other women cloy The appetites they feed : but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies : for vilest things Become themselves in her; that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.