The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 17R. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... folio , 1623 , reads " able heels ; " the modern editors , without autho- rity- " agile heels . " STEEVENS . 2 - poor jade ] Poor jade is used , not in contempt , but in compassion . Poor jade means the horse wearied with his journey ...
... folio , 1623 , reads " able heels ; " the modern editors , without autho- rity- " agile heels . " STEEVENS . 2 - poor jade ] Poor jade is used , not in contempt , but in compassion . Poor jade means the horse wearied with his journey ...
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... Folio , when . like to a title - leaf , ] It may not be amiss to observe , that , in the time of our poet , the title - page to an elegy , as well as every intermediate leaf , was totally black . I have several in my posses- sion ...
... Folio , when . like to a title - leaf , ] It may not be amiss to observe , that , in the time of our poet , the title - page to an elegy , as well as every intermediate leaf , was totally black . I have several in my posses- sion ...
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... folio , but not in the quarto : they are necessary to the verse , but the sense proceeds as well without them . JOHNSON . 6 Sounds ever after as a SULLEN bell , Remember'd knolling a DEPARTING friend . ] So , in our au- thor's 71st ...
... folio , but not in the quarto : they are necessary to the verse , but the sense proceeds as well without them . JOHNSON . 6 Sounds ever after as a SULLEN bell , Remember'd knolling a DEPARTING friend . ] So , in our au- thor's 71st ...
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... folio , we have " able heels , " in- stead of " armed heels , " in consequence of the word able having occurred in the preceding line . So , in Hamlet : " Thy news shall be the news , " & c . instead of " Thy news shall be the fruit ...
... folio , we have " able heels , " in- stead of " armed heels , " in consequence of the word able having occurred in the preceding line . So , in Hamlet : " Thy news shall be the news , " & c . instead of " Thy news shall be the fruit ...
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... folio of 1623. A very great number of other lines in this play were inserted after the first edition in like manner , but of such spirit and mastery generally , that the inser- tions are plainly by Shakspeare himself . POPE . To this ...
... folio of 1623. A very great number of other lines in this play were inserted after the first edition in like manner , but of such spirit and mastery generally , that the inser- tions are plainly by Shakspeare himself . POPE . To this ...
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alludes ancient appears BARD Bardolph battle of Agincourt believe Ben Jonson blood BOSWELL brother called captain Colevile Constable of France crown dead death doth DOUCE duke Earl edition editors emendation England English Enter Exeunt Falstaff father fear Fluellen folio former France French give grace Hanmer Harfleur Harry hast hath heart heaven Henry VI Holinshed honour HOST humour jades JOHNSON Justice KATH King Henry King Henry IV king's kirtle knight look lord Love's Labour's Lost majesty MALONE MASON master means merry never noble observed old copy peace perhaps PIST Pistol poet POINS Pope pray prince quarto rascal RITSON says scene seems sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's SHAL Shallow signifies Sir Dagonet sir John soldier speak speech STEEVENS suppose sword tell thee THEOBALD thing thou thought unto WARBURTON Westmoreland word
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Page 105 - 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 deaf ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes...
Page 261 - Hear him but reason in divinity, And, all-admiring, with an inward wish You would desire the king were made a prelate : Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would say, it hath been...
Page 284 - Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth : your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all posterity, That wear this...
Page 23 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me. The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent anything that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is invented on me: I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Page 112 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie in treasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 337 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...