The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 17C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
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... King John , Richard the Second , Henry the Fourth , Richard the Third , and Romeo and Juliet . The comedies are , the Mid- summer Night's Dream , the Gentlemen of Verona , the Comedy of . Errors , the Love's Labour's Lost , the Love's ...
... King John , Richard the Second , Henry the Fourth , Richard the Third , and Romeo and Juliet . The comedies are , the Mid- summer Night's Dream , the Gentlemen of Verona , the Comedy of . Errors , the Love's Labour's Lost , the Love's ...
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... King James II , warrants us in making one or other of these suppositions . " I have been told " ( says he in his ... King Edward II , by whom not one of Shakspeare's plays is said to have been per- formed . See the Dissertation on King Henry ...
... King James II , warrants us in making one or other of these suppositions . " I have been told " ( says he in his ... King Edward II , by whom not one of Shakspeare's plays is said to have been per- formed . See the Dissertation on King Henry ...
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... King Henry VIII . See Greene's Groundwork of Coneycatching , 1592. Hence , I suppose , this sense of the verb , to ruffie . Rufflers are likewise enumerated among other vagabonds , by Holinshed , Vol . I , p . 183. Steevens . To ruffie ...
... King Henry VIII . See Greene's Groundwork of Coneycatching , 1592. Hence , I suppose , this sense of the verb , to ruffie . Rufflers are likewise enumerated among other vagabonds , by Holinshed , Vol . I , p . 183. Steevens . To ruffie ...
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... King Henry VIII : “ man , who cried out , clubs ! " and hit that wo- This was the usual outcry for assistance , when any riot in the street happened . Steevens . 2 a dancing - rapier by your side , ] So , in Greene's Quip for an Upstart ...
... King Henry VIII : “ man , who cried out , clubs ! " and hit that wo- This was the usual outcry for assistance , when any riot in the street happened . Steevens . 2 a dancing - rapier by your side , ] So , in Greene's Quip for an Upstart ...
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... King Henry VI , ( including the whole of the first Act ) the performances , no doubt , of one or other of the writers al- ready named , as a genuine and not unfavourable specimen . Indeed , I should take Kyd to have been the author of ...
... King Henry VI , ( including the whole of the first Act ) the performances , no doubt , of one or other of the writers al- ready named , as a genuine and not unfavourable specimen . Indeed , I should take Kyd to have been the author of ...
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Page 195 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?
Page 193 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Page 149 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 250 - And brass eternal slave to mortal rage ; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state...
Page 273 - Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety : other women cloy The appetites they feed : but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies : for vilest things Become themselves in her; that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.
Page 288 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 247 - tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, Carry them here and there ; jumping o'er times ; Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass...