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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... poet had written , I have fo fafely or- dered , that there is no foul.Why do I fay foul ? No , there is not fo much perdition as an hair betid to any creature in the veffel .. The ancient reading correfponds with the impetuofity of the ...
... poet had written , I have fo fafely or- dered , that there is no foul.Why do I fay foul ? No , there is not fo much perdition as an hair betid to any creature in the veffel .. The ancient reading correfponds with the impetuofity of the ...
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... poet had given him a language adapted to the brutality of his manners , and the coarfenefs of his fenti- ments ; and accordingly we commonly find him exprefling himself in terms which betray his dia- bolical origin , and the baseness of ...
... poet had given him a language adapted to the brutality of his manners , and the coarfenefs of his fenti- ments ; and accordingly we commonly find him exprefling himself in terms which betray his dia- bolical origin , and the baseness of ...
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... poet to have faid , though he is gentle , he is not fearful , or at least , he is gentle , but not fearful , that the oppofition between those characters might have appeared . I cannot , therefore , help thinking that Shakespear wrote ...
... poet to have faid , though he is gentle , he is not fearful , or at least , he is gentle , but not fearful , that the oppofition between those characters might have appeared . I cannot , therefore , help thinking that Shakespear wrote ...
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... poet . Thus the fecond foot will be an anapæft . P. 40. This ancient Moral , this Sir Prudence . All the former editions give us , This ancient morfel , this Sir Frudence . For the correction admitted into the text we are indebted to Mr ...
... poet . Thus the fecond foot will be an anapæft . P. 40. This ancient Moral , this Sir Prudence . All the former editions give us , This ancient morfel , this Sir Frudence . For the correction admitted into the text we are indebted to Mr ...
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... poet , or any other writer . The reading of the first folio edition is , of this vifion , which Mr. Theo- bald hath very rightly fubftituted in the place of the erroneous reading of the later editions , of their vifion . Mr. Warburton's ...
... poet , or any other writer . The reading of the first folio edition is , of this vifion , which Mr. Theo- bald hath very rightly fubftituted in the place of the erroneous reading of the later editions , of their vifion . Mr. Warburton's ...
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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.