The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson, Volume 6 |
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Since thou hast sought to make us break our vow , Which we durft never yet ; and with ' strain'd pride , • To come betwixt our sentence and our power ; 3 Which nor our nature , nor our place , can bear ; Our 9 The true blank of thine ...
Since thou hast sought to make us break our vow , Which we durft never yet ; and with ' strain'd pride , • To come betwixt our sentence and our power ; 3 Which nor our nature , nor our place , can bear ; Our 9 The true blank of thine ...
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... cannot certain that he has chosen not bear , nor our place , without right . If we take the reading " departure from the potency of that of the folio , our potency made place . This is easy and clear . good , the sense will be less ...
... cannot certain that he has chosen not bear , nor our place , without right . If we take the reading " departure from the potency of that of the folio , our potency made place . This is easy and clear . good , the sense will be less ...
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If our father carry authority with such dispofition as he bears , this last surrender of his will but offend us . Reg . We shall further think of it . Gon . We must do something , and i ' th ' heat . [ Exeunt . S CE NE VI .
If our father carry authority with such dispofition as he bears , this last surrender of his will but offend us . Reg . We shall further think of it . Gon . We must do something , and i ' th ' heat . [ Exeunt . S CE NE VI .
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Alb . I cannot be so partial , Gonerill , Totie great love I bear you , - Gon . Pray you , be content . What , Oswald , ho ! - You , Sir , more knave than fool , after your master , [ To the Fool . Fool . Nuncle Lear , nuncle Lear ...
Alb . I cannot be so partial , Gonerill , Totie great love I bear you , - Gon . Pray you , be content . What , Oswald , ho ! - You , Sir , more knave than fool , after your master , [ To the Fool . Fool . Nuncle Lear , nuncle Lear ...
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Horses are ty'd by the heads , dogs and bears by th ' neck , monkeys by th ' loins , and men by th ' legs . When a man is over - lusty at legs , then he wears wooden nether stocks . Lear . What's he , that hath so much thy Place mistook ...
Horses are ty'd by the heads , dogs and bears by th ' neck , monkeys by th ' loins , and men by th ' legs . When a man is over - lusty at legs , then he wears wooden nether stocks . Lear . What's he , that hath so much thy Place mistook ...
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Page 132 - Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is; and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For (as I am a man) I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Page 427 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 421 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale!
Page 26 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun the moon and the stars ; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves thieves and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards liars and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence, and all that we are evil in by a divine thrusting on...
Page 403 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down : and, as they say, Lamentings heard i...
Page 459 - To bed, to bed; there's knocking at the gate: come, come, come, come, give me your hand: what's done cannot be undone: to bed, to bed, to bed.
Page 117 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles: halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yond...
Page 149 - I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. — She's gone for ever ! — I know when one is dead, and when one lives ; She's dead as earth.
Page 390 - Like the poor cat i' the adage? MACB. Prithee, peace. I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. LADY M. What beast was't, then, That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both. They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you.
Page 131 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
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| Title | The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson, Volume 6 The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | J. and R. Tonson, 1765 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 28 Dec 2006 |
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