The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 1Charles Whittingham, 1826 |
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... present publication is to afford the general reader a correct edition of Shakspeare , accompanied by an abridged commentary , in which all superfluous and refuted explanations and conjectures , and all the controversies and squabbles of ...
... present publication is to afford the general reader a correct edition of Shakspeare , accompanied by an abridged commentary , in which all superfluous and refuted explanations and conjectures , and all the controversies and squabbles of ...
Page vii
... present the reader with more satisfactory explanations of difficult passages , and with more exact definitions of obsolete words and phrases , than are to be found in the notes to the variorum editions . The causes which have operated ...
... present the reader with more satisfactory explanations of difficult passages , and with more exact definitions of obsolete words and phrases , than are to be found in the notes to the variorum editions . The causes which have operated ...
Page viii
... present so much harrassed with private business that it is not in my power to afford you the long and regular answer which your letter deserves . Permit me , however , to desert order and propriety , replying to your last sentence first ...
... present so much harrassed with private business that it is not in my power to afford you the long and regular answer which your letter deserves . Permit me , however , to desert order and propriety , replying to your last sentence first ...
Page ix
... present occasion . - You are at liberty to leave out whatever parts of my note you please . However we may privately disagree , there is no reason why we should make sport for the world , for such is the only effect of publick ...
... present occasion . - You are at liberty to leave out whatever parts of my note you please . However we may privately disagree , there is no reason why we should make sport for the world , for such is the only effect of publick ...
Page xi
... present to him of his valuable collection of old plays ; he afterwards called himself ' a dowager editor , ' and said he would never more trouble himself about Shakspeare . This is gathered from a memorandum by Malone , but Steevens ...
... present to him of his valuable collection of old plays ; he afterwards called himself ' a dowager editor , ' and said he would never more trouble himself about Shakspeare . This is gathered from a memorandum by Malone , but Steevens ...
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Popular passages
Page 47 - 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. Legg'd like a man! and his fins like arms! Warm, o
Page 291 - A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
Page 82 - Some heavenly music, (which even now I do) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Page 294 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pin'd in thought ; And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat, like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 325 - O, mistress mine, where are you roaming? O stay and hear ; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low : Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers' meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.
Page 157 - Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her ? Holy, fair, and wise is she, The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired' be. Is she kind as she is fair ? For beauty lives with kindness : Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness; And, being helped, inhabits there. Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling ; She excels each mortal thing, Upon the dull earth dwelling: To her let us garlands bring.
Page 102 - Shakespeare, must enjoy a part ; For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion : and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Page 82 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Page 62 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears ; and sometimes voices, That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again...
Page 19 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.