The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 4C. and A. Conrad, 1806 |
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... ancient English poets , ( as Dr. Farmer has observed on such another occasion ) is always characterized by contrarieties . Steevens . 7 Dread prince of plackets , ] A placket is a petticoat . Douce . 8 Of trotting paritors , ] An ...
... ancient English poets , ( as Dr. Farmer has observed on such another occasion ) is always characterized by contrarieties . Steevens . 7 Dread prince of plackets , ] A placket is a petticoat . Douce . 8 Of trotting paritors , ] An ...
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... Ancient Poetry , Vol . I. The beggar's name was Penelophon , here corrupted . Percy . The poet alludes to this song in Romeo and Juliet , Henry IV , P. II , and Richard II . Steevens . 9- saw , ] The old copies here and in the preceding ...
... Ancient Poetry , Vol . I. The beggar's name was Penelophon , here corrupted . Percy . The poet alludes to this song in Romeo and Juliet , Henry IV , P. II , and Richard II . Steevens . 9- saw , ] The old copies here and in the preceding ...
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... ancient metrical romance of the Sowdon of Baby- loyne , p . 56 : 66 - sir Gye my love so free , " Thou kanste welle hit the pricke ; " He shall make no booste in his contre , " God gyfe him sorowe thikke . " Mar. Wide o ' the bow hand ...
... ancient metrical romance of the Sowdon of Baby- loyne , p . 56 : 66 - sir Gye my love so free , " Thou kanste welle hit the pricke ; " He shall make no booste in his contre , " God gyfe him sorowe thikke . " Mar. Wide o ' the bow hand ...
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... ancients , writ no language ; yet I would have him read for his matter , but as Virgi Iread Ennius . " Steevens . 3 The praiseful princess- ] This emendation was made by the editor of the second folio . The quarto 1598 , and folio 1623 ...
... ancients , writ no language ; yet I would have him read for his matter , but as Virgi Iread Ennius . " Steevens . 3 The praiseful princess- ] This emendation was made by the editor of the second folio . The quarto 1598 , and folio 1623 ...
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... fro— . " Malone . These words are certainly part of an old popular song . There is an ancient musical medley beginning , Trip and go hey ! Ritson . able colours.1 But , to return to the verses ; LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST . 75.
... fro— . " Malone . These words are certainly part of an old popular song . There is an ancient musical medley beginning , Trip and go hey ! Ritson . able colours.1 But , to return to the verses ; LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST . 75.
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Page 365 - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 317 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 320 - 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 to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 349 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 415 - By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature.
Page 407 - Nay, take my life and all ; pardon not that : You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 157 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, 920 Unpleasing to a married ear!
Page 415 - Touching musical harmony, whether by instrument or by voice, it being but of high and low in sounds a due proportionable disposition ; such notwithstanding is the force thereof, and so pleasing effects it hath in that very part of man which is most divine, that some have been thereby induced to think that the soul itself by nature is or hath in it harmony.