The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 9R. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... play , that I shall not attempt much reformation in its metre , which is too rough , redundant , and irregular . Additions and omissions ( however trifling ) cannot be made without constant notice of them ; and such notices , in the ...
... play , that I shall not attempt much reformation in its metre , which is too rough , redundant , and irregular . Additions and omissions ( however trifling ) cannot be made without constant notice of them ; and such notices , in the ...
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... play . It was too bulky to be inserted here . See likewise the piece itself among Six old Plays on which Shakspeare founded , & c . published by S. Leacroft , Charing Cross . STEEVENS . Measure for Measure was , I believe , written in ...
... play . It was too bulky to be inserted here . See likewise the piece itself among Six old Plays on which Shakspeare founded , & c . published by S. Leacroft , Charing Cross . STEEVENS . Measure for Measure was , I believe , written in ...
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... play there is no other old edition , ) will find my opinion justified . STEEVENS . Some words seem to be lost here , the sense of which , perhaps , may be thus supplied : 66 Then no more remains , " But that to your sufficiency you put ...
... play there is no other old edition , ) will find my opinion justified . STEEVENS . Some words seem to be lost here , the sense of which , perhaps , may be thus supplied : 66 Then no more remains , " But that to your sufficiency you put ...
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... play bare - faced . " For where these eruptions are , the skull is carious , and the party becomes bald . THEOBALD . So , in The Return from Parnassus , 1606 : " I may chance indeed to give the world a bloody nose ; but it shall hardly ...
... play bare - faced . " For where these eruptions are , the skull is carious , and the party becomes bald . THEOBALD . So , in The Return from Parnassus , 1606 : " I may chance indeed to give the world a bloody nose ; but it shall hardly ...
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... play of Shakspeare with Much Ado About Nothing , and formed out of them a tragi- comedy called The Law Against Lovers , omits the two last lines of this speech ; I suppose , on account of their seeming obscurity . STEEVENS . The very ...
... play of Shakspeare with Much Ado About Nothing , and formed out of them a tragi- comedy called The Law Against Lovers , omits the two last lines of this speech ; I suppose , on account of their seeming obscurity . STEEVENS . The very ...
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Page 265 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs...
Page 39 - Men give like gods ; but when they weep and kneel, All their petitions are as freely theirs As they themselves would owe them.
Page 260 - 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 64 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder; nothing but thunder. Merciful heaven...
Page 378 - 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 104 - And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 202 - I'll speak all. They say, best men are moulded out of faults ; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad : so may my husband.
Page 61 - Alas, alas ! Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once ; And He that might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy.
Page 352 - Think, my lord! By heaven he echoes me, As if there were some monster in his thought Too hideous to be shown...
Page 433 - Had it pleased heaven To try me with affliction ; had they rain'd All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head, Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips, Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes, I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience...