New Illustrations of the Life, Studies, and Writings of Shakespeare, 1. köideJ. B. Nichols and Son, 1845 |
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... with some streaks of day . - MACBETH , Act III . Sc . 3 . VOLUME THE FIRST . LONDON : PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. B. NICHOLS AND SON , 25 , PARLIAMENT STREET . 1.1 932 1945 1 . H8 PREFACE . V.l 1845 1845 . NEW ILLUSTRATIONS.
... with some streaks of day . - MACBETH , Act III . Sc . 3 . VOLUME THE FIRST . LONDON : PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. B. NICHOLS AND SON , 25 , PARLIAMENT STREET . 1.1 932 1945 1 . H8 PREFACE . V.l 1845 1845 . NEW ILLUSTRATIONS.
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... printed books , whether in quarto or in folio , which contain the only early and what may be called the authoritative texts of his writings . There never were books more carelessly superin- tended through the press ; perhaps in the ...
... printed books , whether in quarto or in folio , which contain the only early and what may be called the authoritative texts of his writings . There never were books more carelessly superin- tended through the press ; perhaps in the ...
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... printed dramatic writings of Shakespeare which can be sup- posed to have been superintended through the press by himself . Indeed the folios were not printed till many years after his death . Here then we see the principal and very ...
... printed dramatic writings of Shakespeare which can be sup- posed to have been superintended through the press by himself . Indeed the folios were not printed till many years after his death . Here then we see the principal and very ...
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... and useful , I for one should never think of complaining of the amount , not even if Shakespeare were printed like one of the classics in an old edition , where in a folio page we have two lines of text , and PREFACE . xi.
... and useful , I for one should never think of complaining of the amount , not even if Shakespeare were printed like one of the classics in an old edition , where in a folio page we have two lines of text , and PREFACE . xi.
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... printed in a much smaller type ; provided , I say , that the matter is relevant and valuable , not the merely pedantic " deleatur d , alii legunt sic , meus codex sic habet , " which the author of The Anatomy of Melancholy so happily ...
... printed in a much smaller type ; provided , I say , that the matter is relevant and valuable , not the merely pedantic " deleatur d , alii legunt sic , meus codex sic habet , " which the author of The Anatomy of Melancholy so happily ...
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Page 288 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Page 143 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or ou : No occupation ; all men idle, all, — And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Page 129 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 238 - FROM fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory : But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament, And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content, And, tender churl, mak'st...
Page 403 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Page 59 - Hugh, persuade me not ; I will make a Star-chamber matter of it : if he were twenty sir John Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, esquire. Slen. In the county of Gloster, justice of peace, and coram.
Page 339 - They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 175 - O, it is monstrous! monstrous! Methought, the billows spoke, and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Prosper; it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i" the ooze is bedded ; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded.
Page 238 - Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest, Now is the time that face should form another, Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest, Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother. For where is she so fair whose uneared womb Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
Page 317 - Touching musical harmony, whether by instrument or by voice, it being but of high and low in sounds a due proportionable disposition ; such notwithstanding is the force thereof, and so pleasing effects it hath in that very part of man which is most divine, that some have been thereby induced to think that the soul itself by nature is or hath in it harmony.