Hamlet. Titus AndronicusPrinted for, and under the direction of, John Bell, 1788 |
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... and other plays , makes it obvious that the author was very little conversant in even the rudiments of either language . REMARKS . D 28. What , & c . ] The quarto 28 . 4 A & I. ANNOTATIONS UPON Again, in Antony and Cleopatra, act iii. ...
... and other plays , makes it obvious that the author was very little conversant in even the rudiments of either language . REMARKS . D 28. What , & c . ] The quarto 28 . 4 A & I. ANNOTATIONS UPON Again, in Antony and Cleopatra, act iii. ...
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William Shakespeare. D 28. What , & c . ] The quarto gives this speech to Horatio . 34. the minutes of this night ; ] This seems to have been an expression common in Shakspere's time . I find it in one of Ford's plays , The Fancies , act ...
William Shakespeare. D 28. What , & c . ] The quarto gives this speech to Horatio . 34. the minutes of this night ; ] This seems to have been an expression common in Shakspere's time . I find it in one of Ford's plays , The Fancies , act ...
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... quarto reads jumpe : but the following editions discarded it for a more fashionable word . WARBURTON . The old reading is , jump at this same hour ; same is a kind of correlative to jump ; just is in the oldest folio . The correction ...
... quarto reads jumpe : but the following editions discarded it for a more fashionable word . WARBURTON . The old reading is , jump at this same hour ; same is a kind of correlative to jump ; just is in the oldest folio . The correction ...
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... quartos read cost . STEEVENS . 87. Why such impress of ship - wrights , ] Judge Barrington , in his Observations on ... quarto reads , -as by the same comart ; and this is right . Comart signifies a bargain , and car . rying of the ...
... quartos read cost . STEEVENS . 87. Why such impress of ship - wrights , ] Judge Barrington , in his Observations on ... quarto reads , -as by the same comart ; and this is right . Comart signifies a bargain , and car . rying of the ...
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... quartos read lawless instead of landless . STEEVENS . It appears from what follows , verse 116 , that land- less is the proper word . 113 . HENLEY . That hath a stomach in't ; - - ] Stomach , in the time of our author , was used for ...
... quartos read lawless instead of landless . STEEVENS . It appears from what follows , verse 116 , that land- less is the proper word . 113 . HENLEY . That hath a stomach in't ; - - ] Stomach , in the time of our author , was used for ...
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Page 56 - tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison.
Page 113 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's at the stake.
Page 98 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow ! Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.
Page 32 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again, in complete steel Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature, So horridly to shake our disposition, With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls ? Say, why is this ? wherefore ? what should we do ? [Ghost beckons HAMLET.
Page 152 - Hamlet wrong'd Laertes ? Never, Hamlet : If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away, And, when he's not himself, does wrong Laertes, Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it. Who does it then ? His madness : Ift be so, Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd ; His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy.
Page 17 - Seems, madam ! Nay, it is ; I know not " seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of...
Page 68 - For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. I'll have these players Play something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, I know my course.
Page 113 - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, — A thought, which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom, And, ever, three parts coward, — I do not know Why yet I live to say, This thing's to do ; Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means, To do't.
Page 20 - I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on ; and yet, within a month — Let me not think on't.
Page 102 - Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from.