The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage, Volume 6 |
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... in a piece which he calls an Epitaph , or Commune Defunctorum : and it appears ( as Dr. Farmer has observed , ) from a passage in Ames's Typographical Antiquities , that the story had likewise been translated by another hand .
... in a piece which he calls an Epitaph , or Commune Defunctorum : and it appears ( as Dr. Farmer has observed , ) from a passage in Ames's Typographical Antiquities , that the story had likewise been translated by another hand .
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The fearful passage of their death - mark'd love , And the continuance of their parents ' rage , Which , but their children's end , nought could remove , Is now the two hours ' traffick of our stage ; The which if you with patient ears ...
The fearful passage of their death - mark'd love , And the continuance of their parents ' rage , Which , but their children's end , nought could remove , Is now the two hours ' traffick of our stage ; The which if you with patient ears ...
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The first copy furnishes no help , the passage there standing thus : " Ile play the tyrant ; Ile first begin with the maids , and off with their heads : " but the true reading is found in the undated quarto . MALONE . 4 poor John .
The first copy furnishes no help , the passage there standing thus : " Ile play the tyrant ; Ile first begin with the maids , and off with their heads : " but the true reading is found in the undated quarto . MALONE . 4 poor John .
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1596 , has this passage : " Behold next I see Contempt marching forth , giving me the fico with his thombe in his mouth . " In a translation from Stephens's Apology for Herodotus , in 1607 , p . 142 , I meet with these words : " It is ...
1596 , has this passage : " Behold next I see Contempt marching forth , giving me the fico with his thombe in his mouth . " In a translation from Stephens's Apology for Herodotus , in 1607 , p . 142 , I meet with these words : " It is ...
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This passage seems to have been misapprehended . Benvolio has lamented that the god of love , who appears so gentle , should be a tyrant . It is no less to be lamented , adds Romeo , that the blind god should yet be able to direct his ...
This passage seems to have been misapprehended . Benvolio has lamented that the god of love , who appears so gentle , should be a tyrant . It is no less to be lamented , adds Romeo , that the blind god should yet be able to direct his ...
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