A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Othello. [c1886J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1886 "As editor of the "New Variorum" editions of Shakespeare—also called the "Furness Variorum"—he collected in a single source 300 years of references, antecedent works, influences and commentaries. He devoted more than forty years to the series, completing the annotation of sixteen plays. His son, Horace Howard Furness, Jr. (1865–1930), joined as co-editor of the Variorum's later volumes, and continued the project after the father's death, annotating three additional plays and revising two others."--Wikipedia |
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... sense , Beauty , when it can so seduce and engross a Man's Thoughts , may be said " almost to damn him . " A somewhat similar thought is in Mer . of Ven . III , v , 80- 83. ' Theobald therefore puts these words in parenthesis , reading ...
... sense , Beauty , when it can so seduce and engross a Man's Thoughts , may be said " almost to damn him . " A somewhat similar thought is in Mer . of Ven . III , v , 80- 83. ' Theobald therefore puts these words in parenthesis , reading ...
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... sense of woman , and that of the several interpretations proposed the true one is : ' A fellow who would almost go to perdition for a handsome woman , ' or ' a fellow who is almost lost in his fondness for a fine woman ; ' and to it ...
... sense of woman , and that of the several interpretations proposed the true one is : ' A fellow who would almost go to perdition for a handsome woman , ' or ' a fellow who is almost lost in his fondness for a fine woman ; ' and to it ...
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... sense but by methods too subtile and recondite . ' Of all the readings hitherto offered he prefers Capell's face . ' It suits the occasion and the speaker very well ; for Iago dwells much on Cassio's hand- someness of person ; recurs to ...
... sense but by methods too subtile and recondite . ' Of all the readings hitherto offered he prefers Capell's face . ' It suits the occasion and the speaker very well ; for Iago dwells much on Cassio's hand- someness of person ; recurs to ...
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... sense of standard and standard - bearer . So our older Dictionaries explain it ; Cotgrave has : Enseigne , an ensigne , auncient , standard - bearer . ' The explanation is correct as far as it goes , but is not sufficiently precise ...
... sense of standard and standard - bearer . So our older Dictionaries explain it ; Cotgrave has : Enseigne , an ensigne , auncient , standard - bearer . ' The explanation is correct as far as it goes , but is not sufficiently precise ...
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... sense of to own , but in the modern sense of to be indebted to , to hold or possess for another . Fortune here owes the thick- lips a fall , in the same way that we say , " He owes him a good or an evil turn . " This reading is very ...
... sense of to own , but in the modern sense of to be indebted to , to hold or possess for another . Fortune here owes the thick- lips a fall , in the same way that we say , " He owes him a good or an evil turn . " This reading is very ...
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Page 323 - 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, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Page 417 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 71 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 212 - He views in breadth, and without longer pause Down right into the world's first region throws His flight precipitant, and winds, with ease, Through the pure marble air, his oblique way, Amongst innumerable stars, that shone Stars distant, but nigh hand seem'd other worlds Or other worlds they seem'd, or happy isles...
Page 410 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, bloom. Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Page 453 - Look, where he comes ! Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Page 93 - The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley and rejoiceth in his strength; He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear and is not affrighted; Neither turneth he back from the sword. The quiver rattleth against him, The glittering spear and the shield. He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage; Neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, "Ha, Ha!" And he smelleth the battle afar off, The thunder of the captains, and the...
Page 106 - I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nickname God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance.
Page 101 - Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth ; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
Page 181 - There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and, therefore, men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not to keep their suspicions in smother.