Supplement to the Edition of Shakspeare's Plays Published in 1778 by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens: In Two Volumes. Containing Additional Observations by Several of the Former Commentators: to which are Subjoined the Genuine Poems of the Same Author, and Seven Plays that Have Been Ascribed to Him; with Notes by the Editor and Others..C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, J. F. and C. Rivington, J. Hinton, L. Davis [and 25 others in London], 1780 - 760 pages |
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... never be her mild companion . Ye gods that made me man , and fway in love , That have inflam'd defire in my breast ' , To taste the fruit of yon celeftial tree , Or die in the adventure , be my helps , As I am fon and fervant to your ...
... never be her mild companion . Ye gods that made me man , and fway in love , That have inflam'd defire in my breast ' , To taste the fruit of yon celeftial tree , Or die in the adventure , be my helps , As I am fon and fervant to your ...
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... never comes but brings an heir , That may fucceed as his inheritor ; ] So in Hamlet : " forrows never come as fingle spies , " But in battalions . " STEEVENS . Again , ibid : " One woe doth tread upon another's heels , " So faft they ...
... never comes but brings an heir , That may fucceed as his inheritor ; ] So in Hamlet : " forrows never come as fingle spies , " But in battalions . " STEEVENS . Again , ibid : " One woe doth tread upon another's heels , " So faft they ...
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... never learned the common adage " that the fairest outfides are most to be fufpected . " STEEVENS . Thou fpeak ' like himnes untutor'd to repeat , ] This is the reading . of all the copies , which , thofe that understand it , may retain ...
... never learned the common adage " that the fairest outfides are most to be fufpected . " STEEVENS . Thou fpeak ' like himnes untutor'd to repeat , ] This is the reading . of all the copies , which , thofe that understand it , may retain ...
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... never have left , till he caft bells , fteeple , church , and parish , up again . But if the good king Simonides were of my mind— Per . Simonides ? 3 Fish . We would purge the land of thefe drones , that rob the bee of her honey . Per ...
... never have left , till he caft bells , fteeple , church , and parish , up again . But if the good king Simonides were of my mind— Per . Simonides ? 3 Fish . We would purge the land of thefe drones , that rob the bee of her honey . Per ...
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... never us'd to beg , 1 Fish . No , friend , cannot you beg ? here's them in our country of Greece , gets more with begging , than we can do with working . 2 Fish . Can't thou catch any fishes then ? Per .. I never practis'd it . 2 Fish ...
... never us'd to beg , 1 Fish . No , friend , cannot you beg ? here's them in our country of Greece , gets more with begging , than we can do with working . 2 Fish . Can't thou catch any fishes then ? Per .. I never practis'd it . 2 Fish ...
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Page 710 - Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
Page 96 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 694 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm: Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.
Page 349 - Iren. Because the commodity doth not countervail the discommodity; for the inconveniences which thereby do arise are much more many; for it is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief.
Page 73 - 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 325 - twas knighthood brought me hither; they told me I had wealth enough to make my wife a lady.
Page 72 - 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 697 - Are her delight ; and when she sees a bank Stuck full of flowers, she with a sigh will tell Her servants what a pretty place it were To bury lovers in ; and make her maids Pluck 'em, and strew her over like a corse.
Page 81 - T is most strange Nature should be so conversant with pain, Being thereto not compell'd. Cer. I hold it ever, Virtue and cunning were endowments greater Than nobleness and riches; careless heirs May the two latter darken and expend, But immortality attends the former, Making a man a god.
Page 678 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.