The Works of William Shakespeare: King Richard III ; King John ; Merchant of Venice ; King Henry IV, part 1 ; King Henry IV, part 2Blackie, 1888 |
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... speech be- ginning : How some damn'd tyrant to obtain a crown Stabs , hangs , impoisons , smothers , cutteth throats . -Simpson's School of Shakspere , vol . ii . p . 242 . This is the more curious , as occurring in a play acted by the ...
... speech be- ginning : How some damn'd tyrant to obtain a crown Stabs , hangs , impoisons , smothers , cutteth throats . -Simpson's School of Shakspere , vol . ii . p . 242 . This is the more curious , as occurring in a play acted by the ...
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... speech we must understand that these events happened not long after the death of Henry and Prince Edward , and the other events represented in III Henry VI . act v . Following this indication we find , in the second scene , that Henry's ...
... speech we must understand that these events happened not long after the death of Henry and Prince Edward , and the other events represented in III Henry VI . act v . Following this indication we find , in the second scene , that Henry's ...
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... speech diffuse . Here the word means " make indistinct , " " confused , " or strange . " Cotgrave , it may be remarked , explains obscur by diffused , hard to understand . " 82. Lines 79 , 80 : FOR these known evils , but to give me ...
... speech diffuse . Here the word means " make indistinct , " " confused , " or strange . " Cotgrave , it may be remarked , explains obscur by diffused , hard to understand . " 82. Lines 79 , 80 : FOR these known evils , but to give me ...
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... speech . The reader ( or whoever in those days was charged with correcting the first proof ) , finding Richard's name prefixed to two successive speeches " ( viz . lines 201 and 203 of our text ) " struck out one of them , and ( as it ...
... speech . The reader ( or whoever in those days was charged with correcting the first proof ) , finding Richard's name prefixed to two successive speeches " ( viz . lines 201 and 203 of our text ) " struck out one of them , and ( as it ...
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... speech to Rivers . In Ff . it is assigned to Grey . It certainly seems more appropriate in the mouth of Rivers , the elder and more important person of the two . F. 1 reads 100 ACT I. Scene 2 . ACT I. Scene 3 . NOTES TO KING RICHARD III .
... speech to Rivers . In Ff . it is assigned to Grey . It certainly seems more appropriate in the mouth of Rivers , the elder and more important person of the two . F. 1 reads 100 ACT I. Scene 2 . ACT I. Scene 3 . NOTES TO KING RICHARD III .
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Page 274 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Page 256 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 259 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 206 - This England never did (nor never shall) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, if England to itself do rest but true.
Page 185 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form: Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 378 - Tis not due yet; I would be loath to pay him before his day. What need I be so forward with him that calls not on me? Well, 'tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on, how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour ? What is that honour ? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it ? He that died o
Page 380 - O gentlemen, the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely, were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
Page 255 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 95 - Our bruised arms hung up for monuments ; Our stern alarums chang'd to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front ; And now — instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries — He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.