Commentaries on the Historical Plays of Shakspeare, Volumen1H. Colburn, 1840 - 340 páginas |
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... merely adopted the stories of Holinshed , as he did those of Boccaccio . Nor do I think it necessary to inquire whether his deviations from the truth of history were carefully adopted in order to the perfection of viii PREFACE .
... merely adopted the stories of Holinshed , as he did those of Boccaccio . Nor do I think it necessary to inquire whether his deviations from the truth of history were carefully adopted in order to the perfection of viii PREFACE .
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... Holinshed . 14 , line 14 , for creation read creature . 37 , line 13 , for 1671 read 1471 . 113 , line 12 , dele Although . line 21 , before His insert For . 137 , line 2 of note , for dudid insert du dit . 184 , note * , for Boce read ...
... Holinshed . 14 , line 14 , for creation read creature . 37 , line 13 , for 1671 read 1471 . 113 , line 12 , dele Although . line 21 , before His insert For . 137 , line 2 of note , for dudid insert du dit . 184 , note * , for Boce read ...
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... Holinshed , Stow , and other chroniclers ; but he mentions also an old play , ( " The troublesome Reign of King John , " ) † of which the author is not exactly known . I cannot concur with Steevens in thinking it possible that ...
... Holinshed , Stow , and other chroniclers ; but he mentions also an old play , ( " The troublesome Reign of King John , " ) † of which the author is not exactly known . I cannot concur with Steevens in thinking it possible that ...
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... Holinshed professes to take it from Matthew Paris ; but he leaves out the preface , in which the monk + Hoveden , in Script . post Bedam , p . 793 , and M. Paris , p . 196 . * Holinshed , p . 273 . gives a preference to the claimant by ...
... Holinshed professes to take it from Matthew Paris ; but he leaves out the preface , in which the monk + Hoveden , in Script . post Bedam , p . 793 , and M. Paris , p . 196 . * Holinshed , p . 273 . gives a preference to the claimant by ...
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... Holinshed , quoted by Malone . * 66 Surely Queen Elinor , the king's mother , was sore against her nephew Arthur , rather moved thereto by envy conceived against his mother , than upon any just occasion given on behalf of the child ...
... Holinshed , quoted by Malone . * 66 Surely Queen Elinor , the king's mother , was sore against her nephew Arthur , rather moved thereto by envy conceived against his mother , than upon any just occasion given on behalf of the child ...
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Página 85 - So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
Página 96 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.
Página 110 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Página 88 - Was parmaceti, for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, That villainous salt-petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Página 90 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Página 196 - This day is call'd the feast of Crispian : He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
Página 195 - O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England That do no work to-day ! King Henry. What 's he that wishes so ? My cousin Westmoreland ? No, my fair cousin : If we are mark'd to die, we are enow *> To do our country loss ; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
Página 299 - Cade. Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment ? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man...
Página 142 - He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity...
Página 126 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...