The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volumen2 |
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There is perhaps not one of Shakespeare's plays more darkened than this by the
peculiarities of its authour , and the unskilfulness of its editors , by diftortions of
phrase , or negligence of transcription . JOHNSON . Shakespeare took the fable
of ...
There is perhaps not one of Shakespeare's plays more darkened than this by the
peculiarities of its authour , and the unskilfulness of its editors , by diftortions of
phrase , or negligence of transcription . JOHNSON . Shakespeare took the fable
of ...
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... is a paffage which has exercised the fagacity of the editors , and is now to
employ mine . • But S But that your sufficiency , as your worth is able 4 MEASURE
for MEASURE .
... is a paffage which has exercised the fagacity of the editors , and is now to
employ mine . • But S But that your sufficiency , as your worth is able 4 MEASURE
for MEASURE .
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That the passage is more or less corrupt , I believe every reader will agree with
the editors . ... as Mr. Theobald conjectures , nor that the change of but to put ,
which Dr. Warburton has admitted after some other editor , will amend the fault .
That the passage is more or less corrupt , I believe every reader will agree with
the editors . ... as Mr. Theobald conjectures , nor that the change of but to put ,
which Dr. Warburton has admitted after some other editor , will amend the fault .
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This editor is , I think , right in fuppofing a corruption , but less happy in his
emendation . I read , we have with special feal Elečied him our absence to supply
. A special feal is a very natural metonomy for a special commiffion . JOHNSON .
This editor is , I think , right in fuppofing a corruption , but less happy in his
emendation . I read , we have with special feal Elečied him our absence to supply
. A special feal is a very natural metonomy for a special commiffion . JOHNSON .
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But all these quaintpeffes of expreffion , the Oxførd editor seems fworn to
extirpate ; that is , to take away one of Shakespeare's characteristic marks ' ;
which , if not one of the comeliet , is yet one of the strongest . So he alters this te ,
To one that ...
But all these quaintpeffes of expreffion , the Oxførd editor seems fworn to
extirpate ; that is , to take away one of Shakespeare's characteristic marks ' ;
which , if not one of the comeliet , is yet one of the strongest . So he alters this te ,
To one that ...
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Página 399 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor,) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Página 45 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: how would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Página 516 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Página 7 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Página 30 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Página 460 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power; And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Página 337 - The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination, And every lovely organ of her life Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, More moving, delicate, and full of life, Into the eye and prospect of his soul, Than when she liv'd indeed...