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Pagina iii
... STEEVENS , Esq . AND THE VARIOUS COMMENTATORS . BY JOHN POOLE , Esq . Quantum mutatus ab illo . Commentators each dark passage shun , And hold their farthing candle to the sun . SECOND EDITION . VIRGIL . YOUNG . LONDON : PRINTED FOR ...
... STEEVENS , Esq . AND THE VARIOUS COMMENTATORS . BY JOHN POOLE , Esq . Quantum mutatus ab illo . Commentators each dark passage shun , And hold their farthing candle to the sun . SECOND EDITION . VIRGIL . YOUNG . LONDON : PRINTED FOR ...
Pagina 71
... AFTER THE MANNER OF DR . JOHNSON , AND GEORGE STEEVENS , ESQ . AND THE VARIOUS COMMENTATORS . Commentators each dark passage shun , And hold their farthing candle to the sun . YOUNG . ANNOTATIONS . ACT THE FIRST . ( a ) -My BURLESQUE ...
... AFTER THE MANNER OF DR . JOHNSON , AND GEORGE STEEVENS , ESQ . AND THE VARIOUS COMMENTATORS . Commentators each dark passage shun , And hold their farthing candle to the sun . YOUNG . ANNOTATIONS . ACT THE FIRST . ( a ) -My BURLESQUE ...
Pagina 74
... tion of " Tommy " for " Betty Martin " be allowed , Dr. Johnson's explanation is just . STEEVENS . ( b ) -Cheer up- From what follows ( No more foul weather ) , it occurs to me that our author intended a perfect and very 74 ANNOTATIONS .
... tion of " Tommy " for " Betty Martin " be allowed , Dr. Johnson's explanation is just . STEEVENS . ( b ) -Cheer up- From what follows ( No more foul weather ) , it occurs to me that our author intended a perfect and very 74 ANNOTATIONS .
Pagina 75
... STEEVENS . ( c ) -My dear , take my Belcher- I question whether Belchers were known in Denmark as early as the time of Hamlet . This is an evident anachronism . JOHNSON . In a very old bl . let . Detaille of ye Workes of ye Loome , I ...
... STEEVENS . ( c ) -My dear , take my Belcher- I question whether Belchers were known in Denmark as early as the time of Hamlet . This is an evident anachronism . JOHNSON . In a very old bl . let . Detaille of ye Workes of ye Loome , I ...
Pagina 76
... STEEVENS . From the verb " to quiz , " i . e . to make game . Re- specting the derivation of this verb , our best etymolo- gists are undecided ; and so am I. ( e ) -Cheer- The folio reads chear . JOHNSON . POPE . Mr. Pope is , I think ...
... STEEVENS . From the verb " to quiz , " i . e . to make game . Re- specting the derivation of this verb , our best etymolo- gists are undecided ; and so am I. ( e ) -Cheer- The folio reads chear . JOHNSON . POPE . Mr. Pope is , I think ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
actors Cheer d'ye dear Denmark wore Derry die game dish'd doubt drink Enter HAMLET Enter HORATIO Enter KING Exeunt Exit Hamlet Exit Queen expose That dirty eye and Tommy father gallopping randy dandy gammon GENTLEMEN Gertrude Ghost give grave Gravedigger Guild GUILDENSTERN HAMLET and HORATIO HAMLET TRAVESTIE hath Heigho Hey randy dandy is't J. M. RICHARDSON Jack Frost JOHNSON LADIES Laertes Latin spondees latten Marcellus meaning Merry Andrew mother never night nose Ophelia Ophelia's the maid Osrick Palace pantomime passage pickled mutton play poet poison'd Polonius POPE Pray prologue quarto Queen of Denmark Ri tol tiddy Rosen ROSENCRANTZ says Horatio SCENE sitting upon pins SONG soon STEEVENS swear thee THEOBALD there's thou Tol de rol tomb-stone trumpet's tantarara Trumpets and Drums Tune twas twill WARBURTON wdst what's whilst Zounds
Populaire passages
Pagina 86 - Shakespeare was godfather to one of Ben Jonson's children, and, after the christening, being in a deep study, Jonson came to cheer him up, and asked him why he was so melancholy. ' No faith, Ben,' says he, ' not I, but I have been considering a great while what should be the fittest gift for me to bestow upon my godchild, and I have resolved at last.' ' I prythee, what ? ' says he. ' I' faith, Ben, I'll e'en give him a dozen good Latin (latten) spoons, and thou shalt translate them.
Pagina 53 - And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead; Go to thy death-bed, He never will come again. His beard was as white as snow All flaxen was his poll, He is gone, he is gone, And we cast away moan: God ha
Pagina 104 - ... his custody." The importance attached to the pursuit in centuries past was far greater, and the laws severer than those applied to any sport of the present age. A man of rank seldom stirred from his house without a falcon on his wrist : it was an emblem that distinguished him from his vassal ; and it was not until about the middle of the seventeenth century that the pursuit began to decline.
Pagina 36 - And it's oh! dear! what can the matter be? Dear! dear! what can the matter be?
Pagina 71 - How science dwindles, and how volumes swell. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the Sun.
Pagina 3 - I'd give if a sure way I knew How to thaw and resolve my stout flesh into dew! How happy were I if no sin were self-slaughter, For I'd then throw myself and my cares in the water ! Derry down, down, down, derry down. How weary, how profitless, stale, and how flat. Seem to me all life's uses, its joys,— and all that; This world is a garden unweeded ; and clearly Not worth living for — things rank and gross hold it merely.
Pagina 23 - to be, or not to be ?" For before he dare finish the strife, His reflections most serious ought to be. When his troubles too numerous grow, And he knows of no method to mend them, Had he best bear them tamely, or no ? Or by stoutly opposing them end them ? Ri tol de ml, <$e.
Pagina 10 - I'll speak to thee, thou look'st so like my dad — In a trim box, so snugly was't thou lain. Say! what the deuce e'er brought you out again?8 Any popular play was fair game, however, and this had another unfortunate long-term effect. After the war, the dramatization of Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" rivaled "Hamlet" as the most frequently spoofed work.