The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 17R. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... seem to know my stops . " STEEVENS . 7 And this worm - eaten HOLD of ragged stone , ] The old copies read- " worm - eaten hole . " MALONE . Northumberland had retired and fortified himself in his castle , a place of strength in those ...
... seem to know my stops . " STEEVENS . 7 And this worm - eaten HOLD of ragged stone , ] The old copies read- " worm - eaten hole . " MALONE . Northumberland had retired and fortified himself in his castle , a place of strength in those ...
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... seem'd in running to devour the way , Staying no longer question . 66 9 FORSPENT with speed , ] To forspend is to waste ... seems anciently to have signified what we now call a hackney ; a beast employed in drudgery , opposed to a horse ...
... seem'd in running to devour the way , Staying no longer question . 66 9 FORSPENT with speed , ] To forspend is to waste ... seems anciently to have signified what we now call a hackney ; a beast employed in drudgery , opposed to a horse ...
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... seem'd in running to devour the way , ] So , in the book of Job , chap . xxxix : " He swalloweth the ground in ... seems to have been a very common term for a man of vehemence and precipitation . Stanyhurst , who translated four ...
... seem'd in running to devour the way , ] So , in the book of Job , chap . xxxix : " He swalloweth the ground in ... seems to have been a very common term for a man of vehemence and precipitation . Stanyhurst , who translated four ...
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... seems not much to countenance such a supposition . I will venture to distribute this passage in a manner which will , I hope , seem more commodious ; but do not wish the reader to forget , that the most commodious is not always the true ...
... seems not much to countenance such a supposition . I will venture to distribute this passage in a manner which will , I hope , seem more commodious ; but do not wish the reader to forget , that the most commodious is not always the true ...
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... the folio , 1623 ; but it is mani- fest that they were written at the same time with the rest of the play , Northumberland's answer referring to them . MALONE . Seem'd on our side , but , for their spirits SC . I. 21 KING HENRY IV .
... the folio , 1623 ; but it is mani- fest that they were written at the same time with the rest of the play , Northumberland's answer referring to them . MALONE . Seem'd on our side , but , for their spirits SC . I. 21 KING HENRY IV .
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Page 105 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast, Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge. And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes...
Page 261 - Hear him but reason in divinity, And, all-admiring, with an inward wish You would desire the king were made a prelate : Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would say, it hath been...
Page 284 - Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth : your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all posterity, That wear this...
Page 23 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me. The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent anything that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is invented on me: I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Page 112 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie in treasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 337 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...