The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 7C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1806 |
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... Steevens . 3 Macdonwald- ] Thus the old copy . According to Holinshed we should read - Macdowald . Steevens . So also the Scottish Chronicles . However , it is possible that Shakspeare might have preferred the name that has been sub ...
... Steevens . 3 Macdonwald- ] Thus the old copy . According to Holinshed we should read - Macdowald . Steevens . So also the Scottish Chronicles . However , it is possible that Shakspeare might have preferred the name that has been sub ...
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... Steevens . Again , in the old play of King John , 1591 , and applied , as here , to ordnance : 66 ➖➖➖as harmless and without effect , " As is the echo of a cannon's crack . " Malone . • Doubly redoubled strokes & c . ] So , in King ...
... Steevens . Again , in the old play of King John , 1591 , and applied , as here , to ordnance : 66 ➖➖➖as harmless and without effect , " As is the echo of a cannon's crack . " Malone . • Doubly redoubled strokes & c . ] So , in King ...
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... Steevens . It is clear , from a subsequent passage , that the entry of Angus was here designed ; for in scene iii , he again enters with Rosse , and says , - 66 We are sent " To give thee from our royal master thanks . " Malone ...
... Steevens . It is clear , from a subsequent passage , that the entry of Angus was here designed ; for in scene iii , he again enters with Rosse , and says , - 66 We are sent " To give thee from our royal master thanks . " Malone ...
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... Steevens . Again , in King John : 66 Mocking the air , with colours idly spread . " This passage has perhaps been misunderstood . The meaning seems to be , not that the Norweyan banners proudly insulted the sky ; but that , the ...
... Steevens . Again , in King John : 66 Mocking the air , with colours idly spread . " This passage has perhaps been misunderstood . The meaning seems to be , not that the Norweyan banners proudly insulted the sky ; but that , the ...
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... Steevens . - 1 Killing swine . ] So , in a Detection of damnable Driftes practized by three Witches , & c . arraigned at Chelmisforde in Essex , & c . 1579 , bl . 1. 12mo . " Item , also she came on a tyme to the house of one Robart ...
... Steevens . - 1 Killing swine . ] So , in a Detection of damnable Driftes practized by three Witches , & c . arraigned at Chelmisforde in Essex , & c . 1579 , bl . 1. 12mo . " Item , also she came on a tyme to the house of one Robart ...
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Page 16 - What bloody man is that? He can report, As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt The newest state.
Page 379 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 85 - I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Page 102 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Page 240 - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Page 386 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet, Told of a many thousand warlike French That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent : Another lean unwash'd artificer Cuts off his tale and talks of Arthur's death.
Page 42 - tis strange ! And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths ; Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Page 149 - Sit, worthy friends : — my lord is often thus, And hath been from his youth : pray you, keep seat ; The fit is momentary ; upon a thought...
Page 70 - He's here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host. Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.