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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... noble lord of Lancaster , The honourable father to my foe , Once did I lay an ambush for your life , A trespass that doth vex my grieved soul : But , ere I last receiv'd the sacrament , I did confess it ; and exactly begg'd Your grace's ...
... noble lord of Lancaster , The honourable father to my foe , Once did I lay an ambush for your life , A trespass that doth vex my grieved soul : But , ere I last receiv'd the sacrament , I did confess it ; and exactly begg'd Your grace's ...
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... noble breasts . What shall I say ? to safeguard thine own life , The best way is - to ' venge my Gloster's death . GAUNT . Heaven's is the quarrel ; for heaven's substitute , His deputy anointed in his sight , Hath caus'd his death ...
... noble breasts . What shall I say ? to safeguard thine own life , The best way is - to ' venge my Gloster's death . GAUNT . Heaven's is the quarrel ; for heaven's substitute , His deputy anointed in his sight , Hath caus'd his death ...
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... noble eye profane a tear For me , if I be gor'd with Mowbray's spear ; As confident as is the falcon's flight Against a bird , do I with Mowbray fight.- My loving lord , [ To Lord MARSHAL . ] I take my leave of you ; — Of you , my noble ...
... noble eye profane a tear For me , if I be gor'd with Mowbray's spear ; As confident as is the falcon's flight Against a bird , do I with Mowbray fight.- My loving lord , [ To Lord MARSHAL . ] I take my leave of you ; — Of you , my noble ...
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... noble eye profane a tear " For me , " & c . STEEVENS . According to the doctrine here laid down , if the words of an author clearly and precisely admit of the meaning which he intends to convey , but at the same time may also bear a ...
... noble eye profane a tear " For me , " & c . STEEVENS . According to the doctrine here laid down , if the words of an author clearly and precisely admit of the meaning which he intends to convey , but at the same time may also bear a ...
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... noble uncle , Lancaster ? K. RICH . What comfort , man ? How is't with aged Gaunt ? GAUNT . O , how that name befits my composi- tion ! Old Gaunt , indeed ; and gaunt in being old : Within me grief hath kept a tedious fast ; And who ...
... noble uncle , Lancaster ? K. RICH . What comfort , man ? How is't with aged Gaunt ? GAUNT . O , how that name befits my composi- tion ! Old Gaunt , indeed ; and gaunt in being old : Within me grief hath kept a tedious fast ; And who ...
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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.