The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... considered as acquiescing in their propriety . When , for instance , Mr. Ritson observes , that the reading of the quarto in Hamlet's celebrated soliloquy , " And enterprizes of great pitch and moment , " is better : I should not wish ...
... considered as acquiescing in their propriety . When , for instance , Mr. Ritson observes , that the reading of the quarto in Hamlet's celebrated soliloquy , " And enterprizes of great pitch and moment , " is better : I should not wish ...
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... considered those criticks as hav- ing in general unwarrantably sophisticated the poet's text . Mr. Steevens , on the contrary , not only has upheld throughout the superiority of the second folio , but has availed himself of every ...
... considered those criticks as hav- ing in general unwarrantably sophisticated the poet's text . Mr. Steevens , on the contrary , not only has upheld throughout the superiority of the second folio , but has availed himself of every ...
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... considered to be , from the best judgment he could form , their chronological order , that the reader might be thus enabled to trace the progress of the author's powers , from his first and im- perfect essays , to those more finished ...
... considered to be , from the best judgment he could form , their chronological order , that the reader might be thus enabled to trace the progress of the author's powers , from his first and im- perfect essays , to those more finished ...
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... considered it sufficient to head those notes in which the original text has been disturbed , with the reading which he wished to substitute , that the reader may have a full opportunity of fixing his own value upon those supposed ...
... considered it sufficient to head those notes in which the original text has been disturbed , with the reading which he wished to substitute , that the reader may have a full opportunity of fixing his own value upon those supposed ...
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... considered as improve- ments . In the glossarial index of former editions , the reader has merely been presented with a long list of words , and references to the passages where they occur , often with very different meanings ; and is ...
... considered as improve- ments . In the glossarial index of former editions , the reader has merely been presented with a long list of words , and references to the passages where they occur , often with very different meanings ; and is ...
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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.