Cruces Shakespearianae: Difficult Passages in the Works of Shakespeare : the Text of the Folio and Quartos Collated with the Lections of Recent Editions and the Old Commentators, with Original Emendations and NotesG. Bell, 1883 - 507 pages |
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... dropping fire . " " Flaming pitch " blackness with flashes of lightning . So , A. and C. i . 4 , 13 , — 66 as the spots of heaven , More fiery by night's blackness . " Shakespeare has " pitchy vapours - pitchy day - pitchy night ...
... dropping fire . " " Flaming pitch " blackness with flashes of lightning . So , A. and C. i . 4 , 13 , — 66 as the spots of heaven , More fiery by night's blackness . " Shakespeare has " pitchy vapours - pitchy day - pitchy night ...
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... dropped was men , and that " men like " is a misprint for moon - like . Mason conjectured , — " With moon - like men , of strange inconstancy . " Dyce and Delius print , after Walker ( though it did not satisfy himself ) , — “ With men ...
... dropped was men , and that " men like " is a misprint for moon - like . Mason conjectured , — " With moon - like men , of strange inconstancy . " Dyce and Delius print , after Walker ( though it did not satisfy himself ) , — “ With men ...
Page 110
... dropped out ; " in " is re- placed in the second folio . The alteration of " then " to than , would , of course , be justifiable if the sense required it - than being often spelt then in the old eds . but the fact that the line is ...
... dropped out ; " in " is re- placed in the second folio . The alteration of " then " to than , would , of course , be justifiable if the sense required it - than being often spelt then in the old eds . but the fact that the line is ...
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... dropped out , -for he did not im- peach good breeding generally , but simply his own good bringing up . Good breeding and good manners are to be considered as single words ; breeding and manners being frequently used alone , with the ...
... dropped out , -for he did not im- peach good breeding generally , but simply his own good bringing up . Good breeding and good manners are to be considered as single words ; breeding and manners being frequently used alone , with the ...
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... dropped out of the text of the folio . " South- sea off discovery , " i.e. a whole ocean off telling me . " One inch of delay " is as long as the South - sea is wide . Compare Cymb . i . 2 , 21 , — " First Lord . He gave you some ground ...
... dropped out of the text of the folio . " South- sea off discovery , " i.e. a whole ocean off telling me . " One inch of delay " is as long as the South - sea is wide . Compare Cymb . i . 2 , 21 , — " First Lord . He gave you some ground ...
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Page 103 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, "I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Page 380 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Page 440 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, As a seal upon thine arm : For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as the grave: The coals thereof are coals of fire, Which hath a most vehement flame.
Page 378 - Yet do I fear thy nature ; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way; thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it; what thou wouldst highly That...
Page 420 - You see me here, you Gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age, wretched in both, If it be you that stir these daughters...
Page 398 - By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
Page 502 - Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid ? Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back ? Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid ? O, none, unless this miracle have might, That in black ink my love may still shine bright.
Page 212 - O God ! I could be bounded in a nut-shell, and count myself a king of infinite space; were it not that I have bad dreams.
Page 395 - Are most select and generous, chief in that. Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all : to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Page 293 - If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down to tame these vile offences, It will come, Humanity must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep.