Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lostC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... words of a fimilar length and termination happen to lie under one another , nothing is more common than for tranfcri- bers to glance their eye at once from the first to the undermoft word , and so leave out the intermediate part of the ...
... words of a fimilar length and termination happen to lie under one another , nothing is more common than for tranfcri- bers to glance their eye at once from the first to the undermoft word , and so leave out the intermediate part of the ...
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... word being this : Put your skill in governing ( says the duke ) to the power which I give you to exercise it , and let them work together . WARBURTON . Sir Tho . Hanmer , having caught from Mr. Theobald a hint that a line was lost ...
... word being this : Put your skill in governing ( says the duke ) to the power which I give you to exercise it , and let them work together . WARBURTON . Sir Tho . Hanmer , having caught from Mr. Theobald a hint that a line was lost ...
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... word proportion , which signifies measure : and refers to the question , What ? in metre ? WARBURTON . despight of all controversy : ] Satirically infinuating that the controverfies about grace were so intricate and endless , that the ...
... word proportion , which signifies measure : and refers to the question , What ? in metre ? WARBURTON . despight of all controversy : ] Satirically infinuating that the controverfies about grace were so intricate and endless , that the ...
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... words of beaven ; -on whom it will , it will ; On whom it will not , fo : yet ftill ' tis just . ] The wrong ... word , and placing it at the beginning . This very ingenious and elegant emendation was suggested to me by the Rev ...
... words of beaven ; -on whom it will , it will ; On whom it will not , fo : yet ftill ' tis just . ] The wrong ... word , and placing it at the beginning . This very ingenious and elegant emendation was suggested to me by the Rev ...
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William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. The words of heaven ; -on whom it will , it will ; On whom ... word with you . Lucio . A hundred , if they'll do you any good.- Is letchery fo look'd after ? Claud . Thus stands ...
William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. The words of heaven ; -on whom it will , it will ; On whom ... word with you . Lucio . A hundred , if they'll do you any good.- Is letchery fo look'd after ? Claud . Thus stands ...
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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.