The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, 1. köideF. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... reader may expect to be told , under what circumstances , and with what pre- tensions , the present editor appears before him , and what are the advantages which are supposed to be derived from the work he has undertaken to superintend ...
... reader may expect to be told , under what circumstances , and with what pre- tensions , the present editor appears before him , and what are the advantages which are supposed to be derived from the work he has undertaken to superintend ...
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... reader , that he will keep in his recollection the circumstances which I have stated , and will not consider me as having thrust myself upon this employment from any over - weening confidence in my own abilities ; but as having ...
... reader , that he will keep in his recollection the circumstances which I have stated , and will not consider me as having thrust myself upon this employment from any over - weening confidence in my own abilities ; but as having ...
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... readers would be un- willing to take the pains of collecting a system of criti- cism for themselves ; but would rather be content with acquiescing in opinions so ... reader of the different view which I have taken ADVERTISEMENT . xi.
... readers would be un- willing to take the pains of collecting a system of criti- cism for themselves ; but would rather be content with acquiescing in opinions so ... reader of the different view which I have taken ADVERTISEMENT . xi.
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... reader to determine whether this iteration of words , without any additional meaning , does not give us a more lively picture of the cholerick monarch , and the blunt freedom which characterizes the faithful Kent . Mr. Steevens ...
... reader to determine whether this iteration of words , without any additional meaning , does not give us a more lively picture of the cholerick monarch , and the blunt freedom which characterizes the faithful Kent . Mr. Steevens ...
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... reader , as to which copy had given most correctly what the au- thor was likely to have written , I have afforded him an opportunity of judging for himself , by laying both before him . In the old editions we perpetually find a plural ...
... reader , as to which copy had given most correctly what the au- thor was likely to have written , I have afforded him an opportunity of judging for himself , by laying both before him . In the old editions we perpetually find a plural ...
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Page 476 - For though the Poet's matter Nature be His art doth give the fashion. And that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat (Such as thine are), and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Page xlvi - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 484 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst to th...
Page 459 - Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her.
Page 319 - Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings, mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet...
Page 473 - To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame, While I confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor muse can praise too much.
Page 251 - To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, [s wasteful and ridiculous excess.
Page 454 - And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Page 502 - This pencil take' (she said), 'whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year: Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy! This can unlock the gates of joy; Of horror that, and thrilling fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.
Page 128 - Newly imprinted and enlarged to almost as much againe as it was, according to the true and perfect Coppie.