A Glossary to the Works of William Shakespeare |
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according alludes allusion ancient appears birds blood Cæsar CALDECOTT called Coles's Lat common Compare Compl conceit corruption Cotgrave Cotgrave's Cymb dance death doth Douce Duke Dyce Engl equivalent explains eyes falconry Falstaff favour fear folio fool formerly French Gifford Gifford's note give Globe Halliwell hand hath haue hawk Henry HERFORD Holinshed honour horse humour J.C. ii JOHNSON Johnson's Dict Julius Cæsar K.J. ii kind King knight lady Lord Lucr M.M. iii M.W. ii MALONE means mistress Nares Nares's Gloss note on Jonson's observes passage perhaps person phrase play poet preceding article probably Prol proverbial expression Proverbs quibble RITSON sack says Schmidt seems sense Shakespeare signifies Sir Dagonet Sonn sort STAUNTON STEEVENS supposed sword term thee thou Troil verso W.T. iv WARBURTON word writers
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Page 409 - Signior Antonio, many a time and oft, In the Rialto, you have rated me About my moneys and my usances : Still have I borne it with a patient shrug ; For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe : You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own'.
Page 332 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds: I will be like the most High.
Page 31 - A kind of embroidered mantle, which hung down from the middle to about the knees, or lower, worn by knights on horseback.
Page 71 - The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye, As the perfumed tincture of the roses ; Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses ; But, for their virtue* only is their show, They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade ; Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made : And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth.
Page 225 - Millions of yeares this old drivell Cupid lives ; While still more wretch, more wicked he doth prove : Till now at length that Jove an office gives, (At Juno's suite who much did Argus love) In this our world a Hangman for to be Of all those fooles that will have all they see.
Page 4 - SI che mi tinse 1' una e 1' altra guancia, E poi la medicina mi riporse. Così od' io che soleva la lancia D' Achille, e del suo padre, esser cagione Prima di trista e poi di buona mancia.
Page 178 - The ancients, who often paid more attention to received opinions than to the evidence of their senses, believed that fern bore no seed. Our ancestors imagined that this plant produced seed which was invisible. Hence, from an extraordinary mode of reasoning, founded on the fantastic doctrine of signatures, they concluded that they who possessed the secret of wearing this seed about them would become invisible.
Page 568 - Is not the opinion of Aristotle worthy to be regarded, wherein he saith that young men are no fit auditors of moral philosophy, because they are not settled from the boiling heat of their affections, nor attempered with time and experience?
Page 16 - I seem to remember having been told that a bad sweep was once left in a stack with his brush, to indicate which way the wind blew.
Page 225 - ... from being too free with their tongues. To which end my first prologue is, that I come out in a long black veil, and a great, huge hangman behind me, with a...