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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... spirits , Than now the English bottoms have waft o'er , 5 Did 2 The wonder is only that Chatillon happened to arrive at the moment when Conftance mentioned him ; which the French king , according to a fuperftition which prevails more or ...
... spirits , Than now the English bottoms have waft o'er , 5 Did 2 The wonder is only that Chatillon happened to arrive at the moment when Conftance mentioned him ; which the French king , according to a fuperftition which prevails more or ...
Page 99
... spirit in a warlike foil , Mocking the air with colours idl fpread , And find no check ? Let us , my liege , to arms : Perchance , the cardinal cannot make your peace ; Or if he do , let it at least be faid , They faw we had a purpose ...
... spirit in a warlike foil , Mocking the air with colours idl fpread , And find no check ? Let us , my liege , to arms : Perchance , the cardinal cannot make your peace ; Or if he do , let it at least be faid , They faw we had a purpose ...
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... spirit of this repartee , must re . collect the fimilarity of found between collar and choler . STEEVENS . 7 - bombaft ? ] Is the ftuffing of clothes . JOHNSON . Stubbs , in his Anatomie of Abuses , 1595 , obferves , that in his time ...
... spirit of this repartee , must re . collect the fimilarity of found between collar and choler . STEEVENS . 7 - bombaft ? ] Is the ftuffing of clothes . JOHNSON . Stubbs , in his Anatomie of Abuses , 1595 , obferves , that in his time ...
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... spirit Percy , and that devil Glendower ? Art 2 Shakspeare never has any care to preferve the manners of the time . Piftols were not known in the age of Henry . Pistols were , I believe , about our author's time , eminently ufed by the ...
... spirit Percy , and that devil Glendower ? Art 2 Shakspeare never has any care to preferve the manners of the time . Piftols were not known in the age of Henry . Pistols were , I believe , about our author's time , eminently ufed by the ...
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... spirits from the vafty deep ; he now pretends to equal power over the fpirits of the air . Sit , fays he to Mortimer , and , by my power , you shall have heavenly mufick . The muficians that fhall play to you , now hang in the air a ...
... spirits from the vafty deep ; he now pretends to equal power over the fpirits of the air . Sit , fays he to Mortimer , and , by my power , you shall have heavenly mufick . The muficians that fhall play to you , now hang in the air a ...
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againſt allufion ancient anfwer Baft Bard Bardolph becauſe blood Boling Bolingbroke called caufe coufin death doft doth duke earl England Enter Exeunt expreffion fack faid Falstaff fame Faulconbridge fays fcene fear fecond feems fenfe fhall fhould fhow fignifies fince fir John firft foldiers fome foul fpeak fpeech fpirit France French ftand ftill fubject fuch fuppofe fweet fword Harfleur hath heaven Henry IV himſelf Hoft honour horfe JOHNSON Juft King Henry King John King Richard Lady laft lord mafter majefty MALONE means moft moſt muft muſt myſelf night noble Northumberland obferved paffage peace Percy perfon Pift play pleaſe Poins prefent prifoners prince purpoſe quarto reafon Richard II ſcene Shakspeare Shal ſhall Sir Dagonet Sir John Oldcastle ſpeak STEEVENS tell thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou art thouſand ufed uſed WARBURTON Weft whofe word
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Page 438 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 361 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of • it. Honour is a mere scutcheon : and so ends my catechism.
Page 116 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 627 - Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered, — We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
Page 361 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 547 - Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions, Setting endeavour in continual motion ; To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, Obedience : for so work the...
Page 253 - He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box...
Page 439 - 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?