Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. OthelloCharles Whittingham, 1826 |
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... old Fryer , and their ill Event . ' In the preface to Arthur Brooke's poem there is a very curi- . ous passage , in which he says , ' I saw the same argument lately set foorth on stage with more commendation then I can looke for ( being ...
... old Fryer , and their ill Event . ' In the preface to Arthur Brooke's poem there is a very curi- . ous passage , in which he says , ' I saw the same argument lately set foorth on stage with more commendation then I can looke for ( being ...
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... old copy reads : - 12 ' Or dedicate his beauty to the same . ' The emendation is by Theobald ; who states , with great plausi- bility , that sunne might easily be mistaken for same . Malone Could we but learn from whence his sorrows ...
... old copy reads : - 12 ' Or dedicate his beauty to the same . ' The emendation is by Theobald ; who states , with great plausi- bility , that sunne might easily be mistaken for same . Malone Could we but learn from whence his sorrows ...
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... old copy . 13 i . e . should blindly and recklessly think he can surmount all obstacles to his will . Where shall we dine ? -O me ! -What fray 14 ACT I. ROMEO AND JULIET .
... old copy . 13 i . e . should blindly and recklessly think he can surmount all obstacles to his will . Where shall we dine ? -O me ! -What fray 14 ACT I. ROMEO AND JULIET .
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... old copy reads , ' Being purg'd a fire , ' & c . The emen- dation I have admitted into the text was suggested by Dr. John- To urge the fire is to kindle or excite it . So in Chapman's version of the twenty - first Iliad : ——- son . And ...
... old copy reads , ' Being purg'd a fire , ' & c . The emen- dation I have admitted into the text was suggested by Dr. John- To urge the fire is to kindle or excite it . So in Chapman's version of the twenty - first Iliad : ——- son . And ...
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... old accustom'd feast , Whereto I have invited many a guest , Such as I love ... old French phrase for an heiress . Earth is likewise put for lands , i . e ... copy for yew trees ' and yew tree , ' this may be also a misprint for yeomen ...
... old accustom'd feast , Whereto I have invited many a guest , Such as I love ... old French phrase for an heiress . Earth is likewise put for lands , i . e ... copy for yew trees ' and yew tree , ' this may be also a misprint for yeomen ...
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¹¹ ancient Benvolio Brabantio CAPULET Cassio Cyprus dead dear death Desdemona devil dost doth Emil EMILIA Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair Farewell father fear folio reads friar gentlemen Gentlemen of Verona Ghost give grief Guil Guildenstern Hamlet hath hear heart heaven honest Horatio i'the Iago Juliet Julius Cæsar King Lear lady Laer Laertes look lord Love's Labour's Lost Madam madness Malone married means Measure for Measure Mercutio Michael Cassio mother murder never night Nurse o'er old copies Ophelia Othello passage play players poet POLONIUS pray quarto of 1603 quarto reads Queen Rape of Lucrece Roderigo Romeo ROSENCRANTZ scene Shakspeare Shakspeare's soul speak speech Steevens sweet sword tell thee There's thing thou art thou hast thought to-night Tybalt villain word
Popular passages
Page 245 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Page 288 - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say ' This thing's to do ; ' Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Page 50 - But to be frank, and give it thee again. And yet I wish but for the thing I have: My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Page 245 - O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: Pray you, avoid it.
Page 170 - Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, modes, shows of grief, That can denote me truly: These, indeed, seem, For they are actions that a man might play : But I have that within, which passeth show; These, but the trappings and the suits of woe.
Page 248 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 243 - Nor do not sa.w the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Page 322 - Alas ! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio ; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy ; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.
Page 447 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Page 339 - What I have done That might your nature, honour, and exception Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness. Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes? Never Hamlet: If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away, And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes, Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it. Who does it, then? His madness: if 't be so, Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd; His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy.