Annotations by Sam. Johnson & Geo. Steevens, and the Various Commentators, Upon The Merchant of Venice, Written by Will. Shakspere, Том 1printed for, and under the direction of, John Bell, 1787 - 75 страници |
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... true seed of honour ? - - ] The meaning is , How much meanness would be found among the great , and how much greatness among the mean . JOHNSON . 652. -Iwis , ] I know . Wissen , German . So , in Shakspere's Henry VI . " I wis your ...
... true seed of honour ? - - ] The meaning is , How much meanness would be found among the great , and how much greatness among the mean . JOHNSON . 652. -Iwis , ] I know . Wissen , German . So , in Shakspere's Henry VI . " I wis your ...
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... true as Turkise , in my dear lord's ring , " Look well or ill with him . " Again , in the Muses Elysium , by Drayton : " The turkesse , which who haps to wear , " Is often kept from peril . ” Again , Edward Fenton in Secrete Wonders of ...
... true as Turkise , in my dear lord's ring , " Look well or ill with him . " Again , in the Muses Elysium , by Drayton : " The turkesse , which who haps to wear , " Is often kept from peril . ” Again , Edward Fenton in Secrete Wonders of ...
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... opinion that rein is the true word , as it better agrees with the context ; and more espe- cially on account of the following passage in Coriolanus , cially 32 A & t III . ANNOTATIONS UPON "Now pale as lead, now cold as any ...
... opinion that rein is the true word , as it better agrees with the context ; and more espe- cially on account of the following passage in Coriolanus , cially 32 A & t III . ANNOTATIONS UPON "Now pale as lead, now cold as any ...
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... -peals ] The second 4to . reads , pearles of praise . JOHNSON . This reading may be the true one . So , in Whet . stone's Arbour of Virtue , 1576 ; E " The " The pearles of praise that deck a noble name A & III . THE MERCHANT OF VENICE .
... -peals ] The second 4to . reads , pearles of praise . JOHNSON . This reading may be the true one . So , in Whet . stone's Arbour of Virtue , 1576 ; E " The " The pearles of praise that deck a noble name A & III . THE MERCHANT OF VENICE .
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... reputation in the exercises of the field . The word lineaments was used with great laxity by our ancient writers . In The learned and true As- Eij sertion sertion of the Original Life , & c . of A & t III . 35 THE MERCHANT OF VENICE .
... reputation in the exercises of the field . The word lineaments was used with great laxity by our ancient writers . In The learned and true As- Eij sertion sertion of the Original Life , & c . of A & t III . 35 THE MERCHANT OF VENICE .
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Alluding allusion amongst ancient ballad Ben Jonson Cæsar called Christian comedy contain their urine Cophetua doth duke elegerit epithet erat subscriptio eyes fairer table FARMER folio reads fool gaping pig Gesta Romanorum Gregorio Leti harmony hath HENLEY immortal souls Jew of Malta JOHNSON kind king Launcelot lineaments Love's Labour's Lost MALONE Masterless passion masters of passion means Merchant of Venice mind mind of love modern editors read musick never night old copies old editions old quarto pale passage pearles of praise peize Perhaps play poet Portia pound of flesh present reading pretiosis prince prodigal promise quod Rein thy royal merchant Satires says Secchi Shakspere Shakspere's shew Shylock signifies Sixtus STEEVENS story strange matter stubbed boy sweet sounds tearme THEOBALD thing thou thy joy Timon of Athens TYRWHITT unto urine for affection usance usurie vail Vex'd WARBURTON woollen bag-pipe word younker
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Страница 50 - In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew And saw the lion's shadow ere himself And ran dismay'd away. Lor. In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea banks and waft her love To come again to Carthage.
Страница 55 - If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you ; but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company; and takes up a great deal of time, which might be much better employed.
Страница 53 - Touching musical harmony, whether by instrument or by voice, it being but of high and low in sounds a due proportionable disposition ; such notwithstanding is the force thereof, and so pleasing effects it hath in that very part of man which is most divine, that some have been thereby induced to think that the soul itself by nature is or hath in it harmony.
Страница 22 - How superstitiously we mind our evils ! The throwing down salt, or crossing of a hare, Bleeding at nose, the stumbling of a horse, Or singing of a cricket, are of power To daunt whole man in us.
Страница 53 - But if (fie of such a but!) you be born so near the dullmaking cataract of Nilus, that you cannot hear the planetlike music of poetry ; if you have so earth-creeping a mind, that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry, or rather, by a certain rustical disdain, will become such a Mome, as to be a Momus of poetry...
Страница 54 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
Страница 39 - tis to serve A prince with body and soul. Exit. Bos. Here 's an example for extortion: what moisture is drawn out of the sea, when foul weather comes, pours down, and runs into the sea again.
Страница 25 - Edition of 1600 has no distribution of acts, but proceeds from the beginning to the end in an unbroken tenour. This play therefore having been probably divided without authority by the publishers of the first folio, lies open to a new regulation if any more commodious division can be proposed.
Страница 69 - It is no strange matter to here those dispute of equitie which are themselves most unjust ; and such as have no faith at all...