A Revisal of Shakespear's Text: Wherein the Alterations Introduced Into it by the More Modern Editors and Critics, are Particularly Considered ...W. Johnston, 1765 - 573 páginas |
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... apprehending it might be of more general and extenfive ufe , if he availed himself of all other affiftances within his power towards the re - establishing the genuine text of his au- thor , he carefully collated Mr. Pope's and Mr ...
... apprehending it might be of more general and extenfive ufe , if he availed himself of all other affiftances within his power towards the re - establishing the genuine text of his au- thor , he carefully collated Mr. Pope's and Mr ...
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... apprehended he was re- marking on Mr. Warburton , and in this cha- racter he saw no reason to reproach himself with impropriety as to thofe freedoms he had taken with him . But he is fince become a Right Reverend Father of our Church ...
... apprehended he was re- marking on Mr. Warburton , and in this cha- racter he saw no reason to reproach himself with impropriety as to thofe freedoms he had taken with him . But he is fince become a Right Reverend Father of our Church ...
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... apprehend this gentleman is mistaken . When a fhip is embayed , and driven by a violent ftorm on a lee - fhore , the only means of fafety are , in the first place , by the help of the fails , to endeavour to double the point , and get ...
... apprehend this gentleman is mistaken . When a fhip is embayed , and driven by a violent ftorm on a lee - fhore , the only means of fafety are , in the first place , by the help of the fails , to endeavour to double the point , and get ...
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... apprehend . If any alteration is ne- ceffary in this place , I think it fhould be in favour of the construction , which , in the prefent reading , is certainly lame , but may eafily be re - established by a very small change , thus ...
... apprehend . If any alteration is ne- ceffary in this place , I think it fhould be in favour of the construction , which , in the prefent reading , is certainly lame , but may eafily be re - established by a very small change , thus ...
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... apprehend the propriety of con- ftruction points out to us another reading , which makes a great alteration in the sense ; But doubts difcovery there . The meaning of which , I underfland to be this : Ambition , which cannot carry its ...
... apprehend the propriety of con- ftruction points out to us another reading , which makes a great alteration in the sense ; But doubts difcovery there . The meaning of which , I underfland to be this : Ambition , which cannot carry its ...
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Página 39 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Página 9 - I have been informed, three very great men concurred in making upon this part, was extremely just ; that Shakspeare had not only found out a new character in his Caliban, but had also devised and adapted a new manner of language for that character.
Página 546 - They bear the mandate ; they must sweep my way, And marshal me to knavery. Let it work ; For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar : and 't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines, And blow them at the moon : O, 'tis most sweet, When in one line two crafts directly meet.
Página 25 - I am determined to put forth some five thousand pound, to be paid me five for one, upon the return of myself, my wife, and my dog from the Turk's court in Constantinople.
Página i - Revisal of Shakspeare's Text, wherein the alterations introduced into it by the more modern editors and critics are particularly considered,
Página 137 - Subtle as sphinx: as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
Página 180 - but you would conclude that I had no faith either in Jove ** or his attributes, and that my oaths were mere words of " courfe. For that oath can certainly have no tie upon us, " which we fwear by him we profefs to love and honour, " when at the fame time we give the ftrongeft proof of our " difbelief in him, by purfuing a courfe, which we know " will offend and difhonour him.
Página 31 - The cloud- capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The folemn temples, the great globe it felf...
Página 246 - He question'd me ; among the rest, demanded My prisoners in your majesty's behalf. I then, all smarting with my wounds being cold, Out of my grief and my impatience To be so pester'd with a popinjay, Answer'd neglectingly, I know not what...
Página 392 - Shake/pears alluded, was not willing that his audience fhould be lefs knowing than himfelf, and has therefore weakened the author's fenfe by the intrufion of a remote and ufelefs image into a fpeech burfting from a man wholly poflefled with his own prefent condition, and therefore not at leifure to explain his own allufions to himfelf.