Introduction to an Examination of Some Part of the Internal Evidence, Respecting the Antiquity and Authenticity of Certain Publications Said to be Found in Manuscripts, at Bristol, Written by a Learned Preist and Others, in the Fifteenth Century But Generally Considered as the Supposititious Productions of an Ingenious Youth of the Present Age

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Meyler and Son, 1809 - 137 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 53 - i A confirmation of shape fate may be detected in the following passage of Shakspeare, which has been quoted and repeated a thousand times without being thoroughly understood. " I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than living dully sluggardis'd at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless
Sayfa 16 - removal of a difficulty felt and acknowledged by all our commentators. " But kindness, nobler than revenge, And nature stronger than his just occasion, Made him give battle to the lioness, Who quickly fell before him ; in which hurtling From miserable slumber I awak'd.
Sayfa 22 - equal. Shakspeare uses the same word as a verb, which has been noticed by Mr. Malone in the following passages. " Be comforted, good Madam; the great rage, You see, is cured in him; (and yet it is danger To make him even o'er the time he has lost.) King Lear, act iv, scene 7. " There's more to be considered ; but
Sayfa 54 - is not the only instance in which Shakspeare has made use of shape for fate. " Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall: and that should
Sayfa 86 - to Rosalind. (blake, yellow, brown or tawny.) Let no face be kept in mind, But the fair of Rosalind. " All the pictures fairest lin'd, An explanation of the obscure word fair, may be equally necessary : It
Sayfa 19 - Her maid is gone, and she prepares to write, First hovering o'er the paper with her quill. Tarquin and Lucrece, Shaksp. In the Hist, of Romeo and Juliet, in Johns, and Steev. edition of Shakspeare, this error occurs very frequently, and in
Sayfa 122 - top, A'nd Shakspeare uses nearly the same* expression in Troil. and Cress, act. 5, sc. 1% " O madness of discourse-! That cause sets up with and against itself! Bi-fold authority!
Sayfa 55 - There's a Divinity that shapes our ends, Rough hew them how we will." -That is, that fates or pre-ordains our ends. The metaphor is really drawn from the woodman's labour in felling and measuring timber: every tree requires to be regularly shaped at the ends, that the true girth may betaken, and the solid contents calculated: the intermediate parts are carelessly chopped with an axe; cutting
Sayfa 45 - The flaunting •flowers our gardens yield High shelt'ring woods and was (walls) maun shield* But thou beneath the random bield O clod or stane Adorns the
Sayfa 95 - was forced to account for it by one of the most absurd and unphilosophical notions that was ever started. He tells us, that the surfaces of all bodies are perpetually flying off

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