Measure for measure. Comedy of errorsPrinted for, and under the direction of, John Bell, 1788 |
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... HENLEY . It should be remembered , however , that the poet is here speaking not of mercy but punishment . MALONE . Mr. Malone might have spared himself this re- mark , had he recollected that the words of St Paul immediately following ...
... HENLEY . It should be remembered , however , that the poet is here speaking not of mercy but punishment . MALONE . Mr. Malone might have spared himself this re- mark , had he recollected that the words of St Paul immediately following ...
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... HENLEY . Theobald's correction is misplaced . If any cor- rection is really necessary , it should have been made where Claudio , in a foregoing scene , says nineteen years . I am disposed to take the Duke's words . WHALLEY . A similar ...
... HENLEY . Theobald's correction is misplaced . If any cor- rection is really necessary , it should have been made where Claudio , in a foregoing scene , says nineteen years . I am disposed to take the Duke's words . WHALLEY . A similar ...
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... HENLEY . my person bear . in person bear Mr. Pope reads , Perhaps a word was dropped at the end of the line , which originally stood thus : How I may formally in person bear me , Like a true friar . So , in the Tempest : " some good ...
... HENLEY . my person bear . in person bear Mr. Pope reads , Perhaps a word was dropped at the end of the line , which originally stood thus : How I may formally in person bear me , Like a true friar . So , in the Tempest : " some good ...
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... HENLEY . ] To bear in hand is a common phrase for to keep in expectation and dependence ; but we should read , with hope of action . JOHNSON . 400. -with full line ] With full extent , with the JOHNSON . 406. give fear to use- ] To ...
... HENLEY . ] To bear in hand is a common phrase for to keep in expectation and dependence ; but we should read , with hope of action . JOHNSON . 400. -with full line ] With full extent , with the JOHNSON . 406. give fear to use- ] To ...
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... HENLEY . 60. This comes off well ; ) The same phrase is em- ployed in Timon of Athens , and elsewhere ; but in the present instance it is used ironically . The meaning of it , when seriously applied to speech , is - This is well ...
... HENLEY . 60. This comes off well ; ) The same phrase is em- ployed in Timon of Athens , and elsewhere ; but in the present instance it is used ironically . The meaning of it , when seriously applied to speech , is - This is well ...
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Abhor ABHORSON Ægeon Ageon Antipholis Barnardine Bawd bear believe brother called Cassandra chain Claud Claudio Clown Comedy of Errors Coriolanus death defeatures dost thou doth Dromio Duke duke's Enter Ephesus Escal Exeunt Exit false father faults folio fool friar Gent George Whetstone give grace Hanmer hath hear heaven HENLEY hither honour husband Isab Isabel Isabella JOHNSON Juliet justice king lapwing leiger look lord Angelo Lucio Macbeth maid MALONE Mariana master Froth means Measure for Measure mercy merry mistress never offence officer Othello pardon passage play Pompey poor pray prison Promos Prov Provost SCENE seems sense Shakspere Shakspere's shame shew Sir Thomas Hanmer sister soul speak STEEVENS strange Syracuse tell thee THEOBALD There's thief thing thou art thou hast to-morrow tongue true villain WARBURTON what's wife woman word
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Page 55 - Claudio ; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 15 - From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty : As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint : Our natures do pursue, (Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,) A thirsty evil ; and when we drink, we die.
Page 39 - But man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep ; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Page 8 - Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. 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.
Page 40 - That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your bosom ; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know That 's like my brother's fault : if it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his. Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life.
Page 112 - I'll speak all. They say, best men are moulded out of faults ; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad : so may my husband.
Page 37 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Page 20 - Stands at a guard 4 with envy ; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone : Hence shall we see, If power change purpose, what our seemers be.
Page 37 - 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 24 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.