Explanations and emendations of some passages in the text of Shakespeare and of Beaumont and Fletcher, by Martinus ScriblerusGeorge Ramsay and Company, 1814 - 56 pages |
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... Steevens and Mr Malone , which is really one of the most precious pieces of learned trifling that is to be found even among the notes of Shakespeare's commentators . As I have a very great esteem for that sort of writing , I was half ...
... Steevens and Mr Malone , which is really one of the most precious pieces of learned trifling that is to be found even among the notes of Shakespeare's commentators . As I have a very great esteem for that sort of writing , I was half ...
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... Steevens is for no change , but imagines that him refers to the silk , and that overture means a preparation for the wars . This seems to me ex- tremely harsh , and may not the sense very natu- rally be the following ? " When steel ...
... Steevens is for no change , but imagines that him refers to the silk , and that overture means a preparation for the wars . This seems to me ex- tremely harsh , and may not the sense very natu- rally be the following ? " When steel ...
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... Steevens , & c . without at all elucidating the perplexity of the construction . A very slight change would give a plain meaning . I read , Which were such As Agamemnon's , e'en the hand of Greece Should hold up high in brass , and such ...
... Steevens , & c . without at all elucidating the perplexity of the construction . A very slight change would give a plain meaning . I read , Which were such As Agamemnon's , e'en the hand of Greece Should hold up high in brass , and such ...
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... Steevens hath much merit for the improved text which his sagacity hath enabled him to exhibit of that singular per- formance . Yet he occasionally , methinks , mis- takes the right correction , and sometimes deviates unnecessarily from ...
... Steevens hath much merit for the improved text which his sagacity hath enabled him to exhibit of that singular per- formance . Yet he occasionally , methinks , mis- takes the right correction , and sometimes deviates unnecessarily from ...
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... Steevens , See where she comes apparelled like the spring , Graces her subjects , and her thoughts the king Of every virtue gives renown to men ! Her face the book of praises , where is read Nothing but curious pleasures , & c . First ...
... Steevens , See where she comes apparelled like the spring , Graces her subjects , and her thoughts the king Of every virtue gives renown to men ! Her face the book of praises , where is read Nothing but curious pleasures , & c . First ...
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Page 14 - That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat Of habit's devil, is angel yet in this ; That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock, or livery, That aptly is put on...
Page 16 - That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster...
Page 31 - Like to the senators of the antique Rome, With the plebeians swarming at their heels, Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in : As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, Bringing rebellion broached on his sword, How many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him I much more, and much more cause, Did they this Harry.
Page 26 - A terrible child-bed hast thou had, my dear, No light, no fire : the unfriendly elements Forgot thee utterly ; nor have I time To give thee hallow'd to thy grave, but straight Must cast thee, scarcely coffin'd, in the ooze; Where, for a monument upon thy bones, And aye-remaining || lamps, the belching whale, And humming water must o'erwhelm thy corpse, Lying with simple shells...
Page 39 - Till you break in at plays, like 'prentices. For three a groat, and crack nuts with the scholars In penny rooms again, and fight for apples...
Page 40 - I'll cut your throats else!—)' Till water-works, and rumours of New Rivers, Ride you again, and run you into questions Who built the Thames ; 'till you run mad for lotteries, And stand there with your tables to glean The golden sentences, and cite 'em secretly To serving.men for sound essays; till taverns...
Page 35 - Tho' she be young, forgetting it ; tho' fair, Making her glass the eyes of honest men, Not her own admiration. ' That's wanton,' or,
Page 30 - Hope gives nct so much warrant, as despair, That frosts will bite them. When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model ; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection...
Page 19 - O, beware, my lord, of jealousy ; It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on...
Page 44 - The court's a school, indeed, in which some few Learn virtuous principles ; but most forget Whatever they brought thither good and honest Trifling is there in practice ; serious actions Are obsolete and out of use.