Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes, Volume 3proprietors, 1820 |
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... ancient malice ; Or worthily , as a good subject should , On some known ground of treachery in him ? 4 thy oath and band , ] When these public challenges were accepted , each combatant found a pledge for his appearance at the time and ...
... ancient malice ; Or worthily , as a good subject should , On some known ground of treachery in him ? 4 thy oath and band , ] When these public challenges were accepted , each combatant found a pledge for his appearance at the time and ...
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... ancient writers . After all , I believe the transposition to be needless . Steevens . 1 thou dost consent & c . ] i . e . assent . So , in St. Luke's Gospel , xxiii , 51 : " The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them ...
... ancient writers . After all , I believe the transposition to be needless . Steevens . 1 thou dost consent & c . ] i . e . assent . So , in St. Luke's Gospel , xxiii , 51 : " The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them ...
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... ancient castles the naked stone walls were only covered with tapestry , or arras , hung upon tenter hooks , from which it was easily taken down on every re- moval of the family . See the preface to The Household Book of the Fifth Earl ...
... ancient castles the naked stone walls were only covered with tapestry , or arras , hung upon tenter hooks , from which it was easily taken down on every re- moval of the family . See the preface to The Household Book of the Fifth Earl ...
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... ancient practice of strewing rushes over the floor of the pre- sence chamber . Henley . So , in Cymbeline : 66 Tarquin thus " Did softly press the rushes , ere he wakened " The chastity he wounded : - " Steevens . See Hentzner's account ...
... ancient practice of strewing rushes over the floor of the pre- sence chamber . Henley . So , in Cymbeline : 66 Tarquin thus " Did softly press the rushes , ere he wakened " The chastity he wounded : - " Steevens . See Hentzner's account ...
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... ancient quarrels , and quite lost their bearts . Willo . And daily new exactions are devis'd ; As — blanks , benevolences , and I wot not what : But what , o'God's name , doth become of this ? North . Wars have not wasted it , for warr ...
... ancient quarrels , and quite lost their bearts . Willo . And daily new exactions are devis'd ; As — blanks , benevolences , and I wot not what : But what , o'God's name , doth become of this ? North . Wars have not wasted it , for warr ...
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Page 81 - Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king?
Page 80 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 40 - This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian service and true chivalry, As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son ; This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out, I die pronouncing it, Like to a tenement or pelting farm...
Page 146 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Page 16 - My dear, dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation ; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
Page 149 - Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' womb To chase these pagans in those holy fields Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross.
Page 257 - Why, so can I ; or so can any man : But will they come, when you do call for them ? Glend.
Page 118 - Richard ; no man cried, God save him ; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which, with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Page 41 - England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds: That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Page 176 - Out of my grief and my impatience, Answer'd neglectingly I know not what, He should, or he should not; for he made me mad, To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet, And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman...