Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost |
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I am put to know , may mean , I am obliged to acknowledge . 4 lits- ] Bounds , limits . JOHNSON . S -Then no more remains , & c . ] This is a paffage which has exercifed the fagacity of the editors , and is now to employ mine .
I am put to know , may mean , I am obliged to acknowledge . 4 lits- ] Bounds , limits . JOHNSON . S -Then no more remains , & c . ] This is a paffage which has exercifed the fagacity of the editors , and is now to employ mine .
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Lucio means here not the piece of money fo called , but that venereal fcab , which among the furgeons is filed corona Veneris . To this , I think , our author likewife makes Quince allude in Midfummer - Night's Dream .
Lucio means here not the piece of money fo called , but that venereal fcab , which among the furgeons is filed corona Veneris . To this , I think , our author likewife makes Quince allude in Midfummer - Night's Dream .
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The authour may , by a prone dialect , mean a dialect which men are prone to regard , or a dialect natural and unforced , as thofe actions seem to which we are prone . Either of thefe interpretations are fufficiently ftrained ; but fuch ...
The authour may , by a prone dialect , mean a dialect which men are prone to regard , or a dialect natural and unforced , as thofe actions seem to which we are prone . Either of thefe interpretations are fufficiently ftrained ; but fuch ...
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We meet with the fame thought in John Lilly's comedy , intitled Campafpe ( first published in 1591 ) act ii . fc . 2. from whence Shakespeare might borrow it . " Alex . Not with Timoleon you mean , wherein you resemble " the lapwing ...
We meet with the fame thought in John Lilly's comedy , intitled Campafpe ( first published in 1591 ) act ii . fc . 2. from whence Shakespeare might borrow it . " Alex . Not with Timoleon you mean , wherein you resemble " the lapwing ...
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The old reading is perhaps the true one , and may mean , fome run away from danger , and flay to answer none of their faults , whil others are condemned only on account of a fingle frailty . If this be the true reading , it should be ...
The old reading is perhaps the true one , and may mean , fome run away from danger , and flay to answer none of their faults , whil others are condemned only on account of a fingle frailty . If this be the true reading , it should be ...
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Page 42 - 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.
Page 247 - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Page 248 - And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Page 457 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Page 336 - These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are.
Page 409 - 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.
Page 298 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours...
Page 8 - 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, Both thanks and use.
Page 409 - Subtle as sphinx: as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
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| Title | Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost Volume 2 of The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editors | Samuel Johnson, George Steevens |
| Publisher | C. Bathurst, 1773 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 28 Dec 2006 |
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