The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 1G. Kearsley [Printed, 1806 |
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... Trin . Here's neither bush nor shrub , to bear off any weather at all , and another storm brewing ; I hear it sing i ' the wind : yond ' same black cloud , yond ' huge one , looks like a foul bumbard that would shed his liquor . If it ...
... Trin . Here's neither bush nor shrub , to bear off any weather at all , and another storm brewing ; I hear it sing i ' the wind : yond ' same black cloud , yond ' huge one , looks like a foul bumbard that would shed his liquor . If it ...
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... Trin I should know that voice : It should be— But he is drown'd ; and these are devils : O ! defend me ! - Ste . Four legs , and two voices ; a most delicate monster ! His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend ; his backward ...
... Trin I should know that voice : It should be— But he is drown'd ; and these are devils : O ! defend me ! - Ste . Four legs , and two voices ; a most delicate monster ! His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend ; his backward ...
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... Trin . Stephano ! -if thou beest Stephano , touch me , and speak to me ; for I am Trinculo ; -be not afeard , thy good friend Trinculo . Ste . If thou beest Trinculo , come forth ; I'll pull thee by the lesser legs : if any be ...
... Trin . Stephano ! -if thou beest Stephano , touch me , and speak to me ; for I am Trinculo ; -be not afeard , thy good friend Trinculo . Ste . If thou beest Trinculo , come forth ; I'll pull thee by the lesser legs : if any be ...
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... Trin . Swam a - shore , man , like a duck ; I can swim like a duck , I'll be sworn . Ste . Here , kiss the book : Though thou canst swim like a duck , thou art made like a goose . Trin . O Stephano , hast any more of this ? Ste . The ...
... Trin . Swam a - shore , man , like a duck ; I can swim like a duck , I'll be sworn . Ste . Here , kiss the book : Though thou canst swim like a duck , thou art made like a goose . Trin . O Stephano , hast any more of this ? Ste . The ...
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... Trin . but that the poor monster's in drink : An abominable monster ! Cal . I'll shew thee the best springs ; I'll pluck thee berries ; I'll fish for thee , and get thee wood enough . A plague upon the tyrant that I serve ! I'll bear ...
... Trin . but that the poor monster's in drink : An abominable monster ! Cal . I'll shew thee the best springs ; I'll pluck thee berries ; I'll fish for thee , and get thee wood enough . A plague upon the tyrant that I serve ! I'll bear ...
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Page 80 - gainst my fury • Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further : Go, release them, Ariel ; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, • And they shall be themselves.
Page ix - the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand ! Which they thought a malevolent speech.
Page lix - The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
Page xv - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound.
Page cviii - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 181 - 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 help'd, 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 xxvii - IN the name of God, Amen. I William Shakspeare, of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick, gent, in perfect health and memory (God be praised), do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following ; that is to say : First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting ; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Page 74 - You do look, my son, in a mov'd sort, As if you were dismay'd : be cheerful, sir. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air : And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack...
Page 125 - I have no other but a woman's reason : I think him so, because I think him so.
Page 38 - All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.