The plays of William Shakspeare, accurately pr. from the text of mr. Steevens's last ed., with a selection of the most important notes [collected by J. Nichols]. |
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... head to the difquiet of jealoufy . JOHNSON . In Painter's Palace of Pleafure , p . 233 , we have the following paffage : All they that weare bornes be pardoned to weare their cappes upon their heads . " HENDERSON . In our author's time ...
... head to the difquiet of jealoufy . JOHNSON . In Painter's Palace of Pleafure , p . 233 , we have the following paffage : All they that weare bornes be pardoned to weare their cappes upon their heads . " HENDERSON . In our author's time ...
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... heads . - It fhould be remem- bered that there was a material diftinction between the plain ftatute - caps of citizens , and the ornamented ones worn by gentlemen . STEEVENS . -figb away Sundays . ] A proverbial expreffion to fignify ...
... heads . - It fhould be remem- bered that there was a material diftinction between the plain ftatute - caps of citizens , and the ornamented ones worn by gentlemen . STEEVENS . -figb away Sundays . ] A proverbial expreffion to fignify ...
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... head , and fay , Get you to heaven , Beatrice , get you to heaven ; here's no place for you maids : fo deliver I up my apes , and away to Saint Peter for the heavens ; he shows me where the bachelors fit , and there live we as merry as ...
... head , and fay , Get you to heaven , Beatrice , get you to heaven ; here's no place for you maids : fo deliver I up my apes , and away to Saint Peter for the heavens ; he shows me where the bachelors fit , and there live we as merry as ...
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... head . Ant . To tell you true , I counterfeit him . Urf . You could never do him fo ill - well , unless you were the very man : Here's his dry hand 6 up and down ; you are he , you are he . Ant . At a word , I am not . Urf . Come , come ...
... head . Ant . To tell you true , I counterfeit him . Urf . You could never do him fo ill - well , unless you were the very man : Here's his dry hand 6 up and down ; you are he , you are he . Ant . At a word , I am not . Urf . Come , come ...
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... head at fo long a breathing ; but , I warrant thee , Claudio , the time fall not go dully by us ; I will , in the interim , undertake one of Hercules ' la- bours ; which is , to bring fignior Benedick , and the lady Beatrice into a ...
... head at fo long a breathing ; but , I warrant thee , Claudio , the time fall not go dully by us ; I will , in the interim , undertake one of Hercules ' la- bours ; which is , to bring fignior Benedick , and the lady Beatrice into a ...
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Afide againſt allufion Amadis de Gaula ancient anfwer Baff Beatrice becauſe Benedick Biron Boyet called Claud Claudio Coft defire Demetrius Dogb doth ducats Duke Enter Exeunt Exit expreffion eyes faid fair fame father fatire feems fenfe feven fhall fhould fhow fignifies fignior fing firft fome fong fool foul fpeak fpeech fpirit ftand ftill fubject fuch fuppofe fure fwear fweet Giannetto give hath heart Hermia Hero himſelf houſe inftance JOHNSON King lady lefs Leon Leonato lord mafter MALONE marry means meaſure moft moſt Moth mufick muft muſt myſelf never Oberon obferved occafion old copies Orlando paffage paffion Pedro perfon play pleaſe Pompey pray prefent Puck quintain reafon Rofalind Saracens ſay Shakspeare ſhall ſhe Shylock ſpeak STEEVENS tell thee thefe THEOBALD theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thouſand Titania ufed uſed WARBURTON whofe word
Popular passages
Page 335 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Page 360 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 233 - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal: His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Page 365 - I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 115 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Page 365 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice.
Page 494 - The seasons' difference; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say,— This is no flattery: these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 140 - I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it, love-in-idleness.
Page 399 - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; — and what's his reason? I am a Jew: hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
Page 514 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon...