The Plays of William Shakspeare. In Fifteen Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens..H. Baldwin, 1793 |
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... called The First and Second Parts of Henry the Fourth . The firft play ends , he says , with the peaceful fettlement of Henry in the kingdom by the defeat of the rebels . This is hardly true ; for the rebels are not yet finally ...
... called The First and Second Parts of Henry the Fourth . The firft play ends , he says , with the peaceful fettlement of Henry in the kingdom by the defeat of the rebels . This is hardly true ; for the rebels are not yet finally ...
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... called Report , apparelled in crimson fat- tin , full of toongs , or chronicles . " Vol . III . p . 805. This how- ever might be the common way of reprefenting this perfonage in mafques , which were frequent in his own times . T. WARTON ...
... called Report , apparelled in crimson fat- tin , full of toongs , or chronicles . " Vol . III . p . 805. This how- ever might be the common way of reprefenting this perfonage in mafques , which were frequent in his own times . T. WARTON ...
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... called A Knack to know a Knave , 1594 : " Befides , I'll give you the keeping of a dozen jades , " And now and then meat for you and your horfe . " This is faid by a farmer to a courtier . STEEVENS . Shakspeare , however , ( as Mr ...
... called A Knack to know a Knave , 1594 : " Befides , I'll give you the keeping of a dozen jades , " And now and then meat for you and your horfe . " This is faid by a farmer to a courtier . STEEVENS . Shakspeare , however , ( as Mr ...
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... called the pasing bell , i . e . the bell that folicited prayers for the foul paffing into another world . STEEVENS . I am inclined to think that this bell might have been originally ufed to drive away demons who were watching to take ...
... called the pasing bell , i . e . the bell that folicited prayers for the foul paffing into another world . STEEVENS . I am inclined to think that this bell might have been originally ufed to drive away demons who were watching to take ...
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... no more earn fix- pence by his face - royal , than by the face ftamped on the coin called a royal ; the one requiring as little fhaving as the other . STEEVENS . What faid mafter Dumbleton ' about the fattin for my KING HENRY IV . 25.
... no more earn fix- pence by his face - royal , than by the face ftamped on the coin called a royal ; the one requiring as little fhaving as the other . STEEVENS . What faid mafter Dumbleton ' about the fattin for my KING HENRY IV . 25.
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Page 243 - I know thee not, old man: Fall to thy prayers ; How ill white hairs become a fool, and jester!
Page 118 - 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 intreasured.
Page 287 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their ( emperor...
Page 110 - 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 136 - I'll ne'er bear a base mind; — an't be my destiny, so ; an't be not, so. No man's too good to serve his prince ; and, let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.
Page 113 - With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 424 - 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 111 - 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...