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 6J. and R. Tonson, 1765 |
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... first copy . The common books read , — or your fore - vouch'd af- fection . Fall'n into taint : This line has no clear or ftrong fenfe , nor is this reading authorised by any copy , though it has crept into all the late editions . early ...
... first copy . The common books read , — or your fore - vouch'd af- fection . Fall'n into taint : This line has no clear or ftrong fenfe , nor is this reading authorised by any copy , though it has crept into all the late editions . early ...
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... first performance well confi dered , it would be found that fomething or other happened at that time which gave a more than ordinary run to this deceit , asi these words seem to intimate , I am thinking , brother , of a predic of tion I ...
... first performance well confi dered , it would be found that fomething or other happened at that time which gave a more than ordinary run to this deceit , asi these words seem to intimate , I am thinking , brother , of a predic of tion I ...
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... first , for Old Fools are babes again ; A proverbial expreffion is here plainly alluded to ; but it is a ftrange proverb which only in- forms us that fools are innocents . We should read , Old FOLKS are babes again ; - Thus fpeaks the ...
... first , for Old Fools are babes again ; A proverbial expreffion is here plainly alluded to ; but it is a ftrange proverb which only in- forms us that fools are innocents . We should read , Old FOLKS are babes again ; - Thus fpeaks the ...
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... , Give me an egg , was restored from the first edi- tion by Mr. Theobald . It is omit- ted in the folio , perhaps for po- litical reafons , as it feemed to cenfure monopolies . Kent . Kent . This is not altogether fool , my Lord KING LEAR.
... , Give me an egg , was restored from the first edi- tion by Mr. Theobald . It is omit- ted in the folio , perhaps for po- litical reafons , as it feemed to cenfure monopolies . Kent . Kent . This is not altogether fool , my Lord KING LEAR.
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... first finds it so . 8 * Fools ne'er bad lefs grace in a year , For wife men are grown foppish ; And know not how their wits to wear , Their manners are fo apifh . [ Singing , Lear . When were you won't to be fo full of fongs , firrah ...
... first finds it so . 8 * Fools ne'er bad lefs grace in a year , For wife men are grown foppish ; And know not how their wits to wear , Their manners are fo apifh . [ Singing , Lear . When were you won't to be fo full of fongs , firrah ...
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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 429 - 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 423 - 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 405 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down : and, as they say, Lamentings heard i...
Page 461 - 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 392 - 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.