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Page 295
... poison were even yet but little known . Since that time I have been endeavouring to find out how far the symptoms ... poisoning by yew . I have met with very much that serves to confirm the conclusions at which Dr Nicholson had already ...
... poison were even yet but little known . Since that time I have been endeavouring to find out how far the symptoms ... poisoning by yew . I have met with very much that serves to confirm the conclusions at which Dr Nicholson had already ...
Page 296
... poison . And first , then , a word or two with regard to the proper reading of the passage . In the Quarto of 1603 ( Q1 ) we find : In a viall . " In the Quarto of 1604 ( Q2 ) : " With iuyce of Hebona " With iuyce of cursed Hebona in a ...
... poison . And first , then , a word or two with regard to the proper reading of the passage . In the Quarto of 1603 ( Q1 ) we find : In a viall . " In the Quarto of 1604 ( Q2 ) : " With iuyce of Hebona " With iuyce of cursed Hebona in a ...
Page 299
... poison in a play written by Shakspere's great friend and fellow - dramatist , Marlowe . In the Jew of Malta ( III ... poisons of the Stygian pool . " From a passage in Henslowe's Diary , quoted by Dyce ( Preface to Marlowe's Works , p ...
... poison in a play written by Shakspere's great friend and fellow - dramatist , Marlowe . In the Jew of Malta ( III ... poisons of the Stygian pool . " From a passage in Henslowe's Diary , quoted by Dyce ( Preface to Marlowe's Works , p ...
Page 300
... poison which is here designated under the term " cursed Hebona " ? Dr Nicholson has so convincingly proved that by " Hebon " or " Hebona " the juice of the yew is intended , that I need not go over the same ground by repeat- ing the ...
... poison which is here designated under the term " cursed Hebona " ? Dr Nicholson has so convincingly proved that by " Hebon " or " Hebona " the juice of the yew is intended , that I need not go over the same ground by repeat- ing the ...
Page 302
... poison in- tended . Thus Dyce notes on the passage in Marlowe's Jew of Malta : " Hebon , i . e . Ebony , formerly supposed to be a deadly poison . " And in this explanation he is followed by Grant White , by Schmidt ( Lexicon , sub voce ) ...
... poison in- tended . Thus Dyce notes on the passage in Marlowe's Jew of Malta : " Hebon , i . e . Ebony , formerly supposed to be a deadly poison . " And in this explanation he is followed by Grant White , by Schmidt ( Lexicon , sub voce ) ...
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Page 29 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Page 247 - A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain : One, whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony...
Page 366 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Page 65 - tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths : Win -us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Page 358 - Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words, And fall a-cursing, like a very drab, A scullion!
Page 360 - Doubt thou the stars are fire ; Doubt that the sun doth move ; Doubt truth to be a liar ; But never doubt I love.
Page 59 - Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king?
Page 361 - Pale as his shirt ; his knees knocking each other ; And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors, — he comes before me.
Page 355 - 11 blessing beg of you. For this same lord, [Pointing to Polonius. I do repent : but heaven hath pleased it so, To punish me with this, and this with me, That I must be their scourge and minister.
Page 40 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.