Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems, Volume 1Whittaker, 1858 |
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... reason to believe , resided at Snitterfield , died at Rowington as late as 1592 . Whether the Edward Shakespeare , of whom the reader of these pages will hear for the first time , were descended from Richard Shakespeare , of ...
... reason to believe , resided at Snitterfield , died at Rowington as late as 1592 . Whether the Edward Shakespeare , of whom the reader of these pages will hear for the first time , were descended from Richard Shakespeare , of ...
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... reason I omitted , in several important instances , to point out where various editors , from Rowe downwards , had guessed at the very same emendations that made their appearance , as I believed for the first time , in my corrected ...
... reason I omitted , in several important instances , to point out where various editors , from Rowe downwards , had guessed at the very same emendations that made their appearance , as I believed for the first time , in my corrected ...
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... reason , who can say less than that every probability is on the side of the proposed alteration " ? * I have already mentioned Mr. Singer's corrected folio , 1632 , and its various welcome concurrences with my corr . fo . 1632 ; but the ...
... reason , who can say less than that every probability is on the side of the proposed alteration " ? * I have already mentioned Mr. Singer's corrected folio , 1632 , and its various welcome concurrences with my corr . fo . 1632 ; but the ...
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... reason for the change . " Now , here are two mistakes : first , Theobald did not propose road - way but " rude way ; " and next he was not " followed " by Mr. Collier's corrector , but Mr. Collier's corrector preceded Theobald by about ...
... reason for the change . " Now , here are two mistakes : first , Theobald did not propose road - way but " rude way ; " and next he was not " followed " by Mr. Collier's corrector , but Mr. Collier's corrector preceded Theobald by about ...
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... reason to discard . The ensuing volumes will afford proofs of the change of my opinion ; for I have admitted no ... reasons for thinking it very possible , that the repetition of their parts by pains- taking players might easily be more ...
... reason to discard . The ensuing volumes will afford proofs of the change of my opinion ; for I have admitted no ... reasons for thinking it very possible , that the repetition of their parts by pains- taking players might easily be more ...
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Page 58 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.
Page 306 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 76 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 306 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Page 227 - Many were the wit-combats betwixt him and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare...
Page 84 - tis true, I must be here confin'd by you, Or sent to Naples : Let me not, Since I have my dukedom got, And pardon'd the deceiver, dwell In this bare island, by your spell ; But release me from my bands, With the help of your good hands ', Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please : Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant ; And my ending is despair, Unless I be reliev'd by prayer ; Which pierces so, that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults....
Page 62 - O, it is monstrous! monstrous! Methought, the billows spoke, and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Prosper; it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i" the ooze is bedded ; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded.
Page 266 - That to the observer doth thy history Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. 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. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor,...
Page 74 - 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 254 - My Shakespeare rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read, and praise to give.