Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lostC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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Page 60
... Dream . Prepare to die the death . JOHNSON . It is a phrase taken from scripture , as is observed in a note on the Mi Summer - Night's Dream . STEEVENS . To 1 To lingering fufferance . Answer me to - morrow ; 60 MEASURE FOR MEASURE .
... Dream . Prepare to die the death . JOHNSON . It is a phrase taken from scripture , as is observed in a note on the Mi Summer - Night's Dream . STEEVENS . To 1 To lingering fufferance . Answer me to - morrow ; 60 MEASURE FOR MEASURE .
Page 63
... observe , that a minute analysis of life at once destroys that splen- dour which dazzles the imagination . Whatever grandeur can display , or luxury enjoy , is procured by bafeness , by offices of which the mind shrinks from the ...
... observe , that a minute analysis of life at once destroys that splen- dour which dazzles the imagination . Whatever grandeur can display , or luxury enjoy , is procured by bafeness , by offices of which the mind shrinks from the ...
Page 73
... observed to me , on the authority of Blefkenius , that this was the ancient opinion of the inhabitants of Iceland , who were certainly very little read either in the poet or the philosopher . FARMER . 2 Is't not a kind of incest , ] In ...
... observed to me , on the authority of Blefkenius , that this was the ancient opinion of the inhabitants of Iceland , who were certainly very little read either in the poet or the philosopher . FARMER . 2 Is't not a kind of incest , ] In ...
Page 97
... observe , that the word mystery , when used to fignify a trade or manual profeffion , should be spelt with an i , and not a y , because it comes not from the Greek , μυτήρια , but from the French , meftier . VOL . II . H WARBURTON ...
... observe , that the word mystery , when used to fignify a trade or manual profeffion , should be spelt with an i , and not a y , because it comes not from the Greek , μυτήρια , but from the French , meftier . VOL . II . H WARBURTON ...
Page 139
... observed that Isabel is importuned against all sense to folicit for Angelo , yet here against all fense she solicits for him . Her argument is extraordi nary . A due fincerity govern'd bis deeds , ' Till be did look on me ; fince it is ...
... observed that Isabel is importuned against all sense to folicit for Angelo , yet here against all fense she solicits for him . Her argument is extraordi nary . A due fincerity govern'd bis deeds , ' Till be did look on me ; fince it is ...
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Afide Angelo anſwer Antipholis Bawd Beat Beatrice becauſe Benedick beſt Biron Borachio Boyet brother cauſe Claud Claudio Clown Coft defire Dogb doth Dromio Duke Efcal elſe Enter Exeunt Exit expreſſion eyes faid falſe fame faſhion fatire fignifies fignior firſt fome fool foul friar fuch grace hath hear heart heaven Hero honour houſe Ifab Iſab itſelf jeſt JOHNSON King lady lapwing Leon Leonato leſs lord Lucio maſter mean meaſure miſtreſs moſt Moth muſt obſerved paſſage Pedro perſon pleaſe Pompey praiſe pray preſent prifon prince Prov provoſt purpoſe reaſon ſame ſay ſcene ſee ſeems ſeen ſenſe Shakespeare ſhall ſhame ſhe ſhew ſhould ſome ſpeak ſpeech ſpirit ſport ſtand ſtay STEEVENS ſtill ſtory ſtrange ſubject ſuch ſuppoſe ſweet tell thee THEOBALD theſe thoſe thou art tongue uſe WARBURTON whoſe wife word
Popular passages
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.