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Contract Context Printing 160 characters of context... Expand Context 511) Commentary Note for line 1721:1721 When we haue shuffled off this mortall coyle... a snake which he casts every year, is called his <i>spoil.</i>--- It is to this Shakespeare alludes; and the words <i>shuffled off</i>, happily express the kind ...
... similar to that which I contend for, occurs in Howell, who may be considered as Shakespeare's contemporary, being employed in public business at the time of Sha ...
... as Shakespeare's contemporary, being employed in public business at the time of Shakespeare's death:--- In his last letter he says, ‘Yet noblest part of u ...
... tte, e di sospiri.'</para> <para><tab> </tab>“It was much the fashion in Shakespeare's days to study and imitate the Italian poets, and he has proved his ...
... ed conceit. Nothing but a violent attachment to those poets could have induced Shakespeare to deal so largely in a species of composition but ill adapted eithe ...
... in Italian as our <i>coil</i>, Florio has ‘a pecke of troubles;' of which Shakespeare's ‘sea of troubles' is only an aggrandized idea.”</para ...
... C;trouble or turmoil of mortal life. In this sense coil occurs several times in Shakespeare, as in <i>Tempest</i>, 1. ii. 207. He nowhere uses it in the sense o ...
512) Commentary Note for lines 1722-3:1722 Must giue vs pause, there's the respect1723 That makes calamitie of so long life:... </b>] <sc>Hudson</sc> (ed. 1856): "That is, the <i>consideration</i>. This is Shakespeare's most usual sense of the word."</para></cn> <cn><sigla>1856b<tab> < ...
513) Commentary Note for line 1724:1724 For who would beare the whips and scornes of time,... ration simply, but of a corrupted age or manners. We may be sure, then, that <i>Shakespear</i> wrote, ‘— <i>the whips and scorns </i>OF TH'TIME.' ...
... e of the 1st Act of<i> The Two Noble Kinsmen</i>: and probably the lines are <i>Shakespear</i>'s, which may render them the more agreeable to the reader:” ...
... duration simply, but of a corrupted age of manners. We may be sure, then, that Shakespeare wrote: ‘-<i>-the whips and scorns</i> of TH' TIME.' And the de ...
... <i>whips </i>and <i>scorns </i>of TIMES, i.e. of times satirical as the age of Shakespeare, which probably furnished him with the idea. In the times of Elizabe ...
... Slander.</para> <para>I own I see no Reason for altering the Text as it stands; Shakespeare is of all Authors the most licentious in his Language; he breaks Met ...
... istant from the Sense. Surely, without much straining, we may well suppose that Shakespeare meant, by the <i>Whips and Scorns</i> of Time, the Calamities and Di ...
... the <i>whips and scorns o'th' </i> times, i.e. of times satirical as the age of Shakespeare, which probably furnished him with the idea. In the reigns of Elizab ...
... tradition.'— Bishop Earle's <i>Microcosmography</i>. But we have it as in Shakespeare, without the article, in the nervous English of Clarendon. ‘Ye ...
... n and castigation of heaven.'— <i>History of the Rebellion</i>, Prologue. Shakespeare himself seems to use <i>time</i> in another place in the same manner ...
... temporaries, the language of the less cultivated part of society in the time of Shakespeare, Taylor the water poet. ‘mock'd in rhyme, And made the only sc ...
... passages which he cites that this very book of <i>Cardanus' Comforte</i> was in Shakespeare's mind, and by him placed in the hands of Hamlet. The book was firs ...
... instead of <i>disprized</i>, in the folio <i>[1726]</i>; — a phrase more Shakespearian, and conveying a more poetical sense.”</para></cn> <cn><sig ...
... laint in all countries, and probably in all ages. Of the writers in the time of Shakespeare, Guevara makes it in Spain, Primaudaye in France, and Barckley and D ...
... ye in France, and Barckley and Davis, and doubtless several others, in England. Shakespeare had probably some personal experience of it in his family's suit wit ...
... ow common was the problem of 'the law's delay' and how personally concerned the Shakespeare family had been in experiencing such delays.</para></cn> <cn></cn> ...
516) Commentary Note for line 1729:1729 When he himselfe might his quietas make... quietas make</b><sc>] Malone</sc>: “His own quitus make. Quietus was in Shakespeare's time & is at this day the term for the acquittance which every ...
... lay: but in the 126 Sonnet it occurs & in such a connection as to show that Shakespeare was acquainted with its use in the Exchequer, being connected with a ...
... >heath</sc></hanging> <para><sc>1730 Heath</sc> (1765, p. 537): "See Theobald's Shakespear restored, p. 85."</para></cn> <cn> </cn> <cn><sigla>1766-70<tab> </ta ...
... receding, effected by the insertion of ‘these,' is very characteristic of Shakespeare.” </para></cn> <cn><sigla>1856<tab> </tab><sc>hud</sc>1 (185 ...
... ond the grave.--'Grunt' is one of the many words which have been degraded since Shakespeare wrote.”</hanging></cn> <cn><sigla><sc>1862<tab> </tab>cartwri ...
... bodkin' is an unsheathed dagger, but the other sense of 'bare' may have been in Shakespeare's mind."</para> <para> 1730 <b>fardels</b>] <sc>Clark</sc> & <sc ...
518) Commentary Note for line 1731:1731 To grunt and sweat vnder a wearie life,... hen your Correspondent made the animadversion on the writer of the Soliloquy of Shakespeare in the Universal Magazine, he did not consider the English taste and ...
... Groan; particularly if he had taken the trouble of reading the old editions of Shakespeare, which (admidst all the beauties with which the work abounds) are in ...
... esent day.</para> <para>“If you will turn to the second folio edition of Shakespeare printed in 1632 you will find the Soliloquy alluded to, “To g ...
... 216;Who would fardel bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life' (See Malone's Shakespeare, Vol. X. p. 290).”</para> <para>1791<tab> </tab>STANLEY</para ...
... as indeed almost died out of our language, it is absolutely <i>certain</i> that Shakespeare could never have used that obsolete and disgusting term, which, doub ...
... "supremum congemuit," sighing it grunts."</para> <para> It had been well if Shakespeare's commentators had uniformly acted upon this maxim.</para> <para> ...
... ies to many other old English words used by the poets, divines, and scholars of Shakespeare's age. They had a general sense, which modern use has narrowed down ...
519) Commentary Note for line 1733:1733 The vndiscouer'd country, from whose borne... <i>Hamlet</i>'s Father. I would not be so hardy to assert peremptorily, that <i>Shakespeare</i> was aware of this <i>seeming Absurdity</i>, and despised it; any ...
... supposed<i>, & facto & terminis</i>. But we are to take Notice, that <i>Shakespeare</i> brings his Ghost only from a <i>middle State</i>, or <i>local </ ...
... t Act, where Hamlet saw and talked with a <i>Ghost.</i> As I am an Admirer of Shakespeare, this cleared up will oblige. <i> May 13, 1768 </i>NIBBLER”< ...
... ;<i>Nibbler”</i> “an Imperfection, or a Forgetfulness” in Shakespeare, it may, perhaps, be sufficient to observe, that though Hamlet, in t ...
... o reconcile the Passages in Act I. Scene 7, and Act III. Scene 2, and to acquit Shakespeare of “Forgetfullness” or “Contradiction.” ...
... Subject; for it were Pity any ignorant Reader should raise a Blot on a Page of Shakespeare, and no one take the Trouble to rub it out—be that My Apology. ...
... s, <i>bourn</i> signifies a <i>brook</i> or <i>stream of water</i>; but what <i>Shakespeare</i> means is <i>borne</i>, a <i>French</i> word, signifying <i>limit ...
... /p. 461><p. 462> even in writers of the most original genius. Many of Shakespeare's commentators might seem to be implicated in this charge, if it wer ...
... yn de Worde, it is probable that there was an edition of Valentine and Orson in Shakespeare's time, though none such is supposed now to remain. Perhaps the old ...
520) Commentary Note for line 1738:1738 And thus the natiue hiew of resolution... d a certain book, it becomes a point of reasonable curiosity to inquire whether Shakespeare had more particularly in his mind any one book, and, if so, what boo ...
... ounted otherwise than sleep, and to die is said to sleep.' (<i>Illustrations of Shakespeare</i>, vol. ii. p. 238.) This passage occurs in a book entitled <i>Car ...
... a book entitled <i>Cardanus' Comforte</i>, and this seems to be the book which Shakespeare placed in the hands of Hamlet.</para> <para>“It was one of th ...
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