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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... lines hardly deferve a note , though Mr. Theobald thinks them very fine . Whether fools or folks fhould be read is not worth enquiry . The contro- verted line is yet in the old quarto , not as the editors repre- fent it , but thus ...
... lines hardly deferve a note , though Mr. Theobald thinks them very fine . Whether fools or folks fhould be read is not worth enquiry . The contro- verted line is yet in the old quarto , not as the editors repre- fent it , but thus ...
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... lines rather than correct them , nor would now thank the offici- oufnefs of his editors , who re- ftore what they do not understand . bim that is wife AND SAYS little ; ] Tho ' faying little may be the character of wisdom , it was not a ...
... lines rather than correct them , nor would now thank the offici- oufnefs of his editors , who re- ftore what they do not understand . bim that is wife AND SAYS little ; ] Tho ' faying little may be the character of wisdom , it was not a ...
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... lines with the fol- lowing note : for by the marks Of fovereignty , of knowledge , and of reafon . ] His daugh ters ... line , by being falfe pointed , has loft its fenfe . We fhould read , Of fovereignty of knowledge , - i.e. the ...
... lines with the fol- lowing note : for by the marks Of fovereignty , of knowledge , and of reafon . ] His daugh ters ... line , by being falfe pointed , has loft its fenfe . We fhould read , Of fovereignty of knowledge , - i.e. the ...
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... by him against the Duke of Albany ? HANMER . I cannot but think the line corrupted , and would read , Against his party , for the Duke of Albany ? Mumb- 2 * Mumbling of wicked Charms , conj'ring the moon KING LEA R. 47.
... by him against the Duke of Albany ? HANMER . I cannot but think the line corrupted , and would read , Against his party , for the Duke of Albany ? Mumb- 2 * Mumbling of wicked Charms , conj'ring the moon KING LEA R. 47.
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... line I do not underfand . In the violent eruption of reproaches which burfts from Kent in this dialogue , there are fome epithets which the com- mentators have left unexpound- ed , and which I am not very able to make clear . Of a three ...
... line I do not underfand . In the violent eruption of reproaches which burfts from Kent in this dialogue , there are fome epithets which the com- mentators have left unexpound- ed , and which I am not very able to make clear . Of a three ...
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PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I William 1564-1616 Shakespeare,Isaac 1742-1807 Reed,Samuel 1709-1784 Johnson No preview available - 2016 |
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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.