The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson, Volume 6J. and R. Tonson, 1765 |
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... SCENE lies in Britain . Of this Play the Editions are , I. Quarto , 1608 , by Natha- niel Butler . II . In the folio of 1623 . III . Quarto , by Jane Bell , 1655. This edition is of no value , for , neglecting the better copy in the ...
... SCENE lies in Britain . Of this Play the Editions are , I. Quarto , 1608 , by Natha- niel Butler . II . In the folio of 1623 . III . Quarto , by Jane Bell , 1655. This edition is of no value , for , neglecting the better copy in the ...
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... SCENE I. The KING'S PALACE . Enter Kent , Glo'fter , and Edmund the Baftard . I KENT . Thought , the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall . Glo . It did always feem fo to us , but now , in the Divifion of the Kingdom ...
... SCENE I. The KING'S PALACE . Enter Kent , Glo'fter , and Edmund the Baftard . I KENT . Thought , the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall . Glo . It did always feem fo to us , but now , in the Divifion of the Kingdom ...
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... to years . He did not confider the Baftard fays , [ Trumpet founds within . For that I am fome twelve or fourteen moon - fhines Lag of a Brother.- WARBURTON . SCENE SCENE II . Enter King Lear , Cornwall , Albany 4 LEAR . KING.
... to years . He did not confider the Baftard fays , [ Trumpet founds within . For that I am fome twelve or fourteen moon - fhines Lag of a Brother.- WARBURTON . SCENE SCENE II . Enter King Lear , Cornwall , Albany 4 LEAR . KING.
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... SCENE II . Enter King Lear , Cornwall , Albany , Gonerill , Regan , Cordelia , and Attendants . Lear . Attend the Lords of France and Burgundy , Glofter . Glo . I fhall , my Liege . [ Exit . Lear . Mean time we fhall exprefs our darker ...
... SCENE II . Enter King Lear , Cornwall , Albany , Gonerill , Regan , Cordelia , and Attendants . Lear . Attend the Lords of France and Burgundy , Glofter . Glo . I fhall , my Liege . [ Exit . Lear . Mean time we fhall exprefs our darker ...
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Page 132 - Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is; and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For (as I am a man) I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Page 429 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 423 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale!
Page 26 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun the moon and the stars ; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves thieves and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards liars and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence, and all that we are evil in by a divine thrusting on...
Page 405 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down : and, as they say, Lamentings heard i...
Page 461 - To bed, to bed; there's knocking at the gate: come, come, come, come, give me your hand: what's done cannot be undone: to bed, to bed, to bed.
Page 117 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles: halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yond...
Page 149 - I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. — She's gone for ever ! — I know when one is dead, and when one lives ; She's dead as earth.
Page 392 - Like the poor cat i' the adage? MACB. Prithee, peace. I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. LADY M. What beast was't, then, That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both. They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you.
Page 131 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.