“The” Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Mr. Steeven's Last Edition, with a Selection of the Most Important Notes, Volume 6Gerhard Fleischer the Younger, 1806 |
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... expression was used to imply that John Naps ( who might haven been a real charac- ter ) was a fat man : or as Poins calls the associates of Falstaff Trojans , John Naps might be called a Grecian for such another reason . STEEVENS . For ...
... expression was used to imply that John Naps ( who might haven been a real charac- ter ) was a fat man : or as Poins calls the associates of Falstaff Trojans , John Naps might be called a Grecian for such another reason . STEEVENS . For ...
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... expression . Dole is any thing dealt out or distributed , though its original meaning was the provision given away at the doors of great men's houses . STEEVENS . P. 17 , 1. 17. He that runs fastest , gets the ring . ] An allusion to ...
... expression . Dole is any thing dealt out or distributed , though its original meaning was the provision given away at the doors of great men's houses . STEEVENS . P. 17 , 1. 17. He that runs fastest , gets the ring . ] An allusion to ...
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... expression , and signifies to flourish capriciously on an instru ment , as performers often do after having tuned it , previous to their beginning a regular composition . HENLEY . Twangling Jack is , mean , paltry lunatist . MALONE . I ...
... expression , and signifies to flourish capriciously on an instru ment , as performers often do after having tuned it , previous to their beginning a regular composition . HENLEY . Twangling Jack is , mean , paltry lunatist . MALONE . I ...
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... expression is often met with in old historians as well as dramatic writers . - STEEVENS . P. 40 , 1. 17. A meacock wretch - i . e . a timorous dastardly creature . STEEVENS . P. 41 , 1. 24 . - counterpoints , ] 226 NOTES TO THE.
... expression is often met with in old historians as well as dramatic writers . - STEEVENS . P. 40 , 1. 17. A meacock wretch - i . e . a timorous dastardly creature . STEEVENS . P. 41 , 1. 24 . - counterpoints , ] 226 NOTES TO THE.
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... expression . So Ben Jonson , in his Sad Shepherd : a Hart of ten ..I trow he be . " i . e . an extraordinary good one . WARBURTON . A hart of ten has no reference to cards , but is an expression taken from The Laws of the Forest , and ...
... expression . So Ben Jonson , in his Sad Shepherd : a Hart of ten ..I trow he be . " i . e . an extraordinary good one . WARBURTON . A hart of ten has no reference to cards , but is an expression taken from The Laws of the Forest , and ...
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ancient Antigonus appears Autolycus ballad Baptista bear Ben Jonson Bian Bianca Bion Biondello Bohemia Camillo CLEOMENES Clown daughter doth Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair Falstaff father fear Florizel fool gentleman give hand Hanmer hath hear Here's Hermione honour Hortensio i'the JOHNSON Kate Kath KATHARINA King kiss lady Leon Leontes look Lord Lucentio maid MALONE married MASON master means mistress musick never o'the old copy oxlip Padua passage Paul Paulina pedant Perdita perhaps Petruchio Pisa play Polixenes pray present Prince Queen SCENE sense Servant Shakspeare Shakspeare's Shep Shepherd Shrew Sicilia signifies Signior Gremio Sir Thomas Hanmer Sirrah speak STEEVENS suppose swear sweet tell thee THEOBALD thing thou art Tranio TYRWHITT unto Vincentio WARBURTON wife WINTER'S TALE word
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Page 87 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign ; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance : commits his body To painful labour, both by sea and land...
Page 154 - A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function. Each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, That all your acts are queens.
Page 152 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean; so over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Page 88 - I am ashamed that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace, Or seek for rule, supremacy and sway. When they are bound to serve, love and obey.
Page 88 - While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe, And craves no other tribute at thy hands, But love, fair looks, and true obedience; Too little payment for so great a debt. Such duty as the subject owes the prince...
Page 152 - Here's flowers for you: Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram ; The marigold, that goes to bed with the sun, And with him rises, weeping; these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age.
Page 153 - O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady Most incident to maids...
Page 347 - AND I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.