The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 16F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... four quarto editions of this play published during the life of Shakspeare , 1597 , 1598 , 1608 , and 1615. Most of the material alterations have been already pointed out in the notes . BOSWELL . KING RICHARD the Second . EDMUND OF ...
... four quarto editions of this play published during the life of Shakspeare , 1597 , 1598 , 1608 , and 1615. Most of the material alterations have been already pointed out in the notes . BOSWELL . KING RICHARD the Second . EDMUND OF ...
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... four away ; -Six frozen winters spent , Return [ To BOLING . ] with welcome home from banishment . BOLING . How long ... Four lagging winters and four wanton springs , End in 36 ACT I. KING RICHARD II .
... four away ; -Six frozen winters spent , Return [ To BOLING . ] with welcome home from banishment . BOLING . How long ... Four lagging winters and four wanton springs , End in 36 ACT I. KING RICHARD II .
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With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators William Shakespeare. Four lagging winters and four wanton springs , End in a word ; Such is the breath of kings . GAUNT . I thank my liege , that , in regard of me He shortens ...
With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators William Shakespeare. Four lagging winters and four wanton springs , End in a word ; Such is the breath of kings . GAUNT . I thank my liege , that , in regard of me He shortens ...
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... four last lines were restored from the first edition by Mr. Pope . They were , I suppose , omitted by the players only to shorten the scene , for they are worthy of the author and suitable to the personage . JOHNSON . 4 - else , IF ...
... four last lines were restored from the first edition by Mr. Pope . They were , I suppose , omitted by the players only to shorten the scene , for they are worthy of the author and suitable to the personage . JOHNSON . 4 - else , IF ...
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... four of them named ; and , within a very few lines , the King hearing they had made their peace with Bolingbroke , calls them three Judasses . But how was their peace made ? Why , with the loss of their heads . This being explained ...
... four of them named ; and , within a very few lines , the King hearing they had made their peace with Bolingbroke , calls them three Judasses . But how was their peace made ? Why , with the loss of their heads . This being explained ...
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Page 385 - 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 145 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Page 99 - All murder'd; for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and...
Page 210 - Out of my grief and my impatience, Answer'd neglectingly. I know not what, He should, or he should not; for he made me mad...
Page 289 - Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied: for though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears.
Page 204 - I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyoked humour of your idleness. Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world...
Page 178 - When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Page 266 - I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the north ; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, — Fie upon this quiet life ! I want work.
Page 34 - And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol, or a harp ; Or like a cunning instrument cased up, Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.
Page 305 - Why, so can I, or so can any man ; But will they come when you do call for them ? Glend.