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331) Commentary Note for line 1689:
1689 That your good beauties be the happy cause

    ... yce2</sc></sigla><hanging>1689 <sc>Dyce</sc> (ed. 1866): &#x201C;&#8216;Surely Shakespeare wrote &#8216;<i>beauty' </i>(<i>-tie</i>), and perhaps also &#8216;< ...

    ... c>Elze</sc> (ed. 1882): &#x201C;&#8216;Surely, says Walker, Crit. Exam. I, 252, Shakespeare wrote <i>beauty</i> and perhaps also <i>virtue</i>.' Surely not. Com ...
332) Commentary Note for line 1710:
1710 Ham. To be, or not to be, that is the question,

    ... n. Addison has named the author whom he has put into the hands of his hero, but Shakespeare has left his author unnamed, unfortunately I think; but it is clear ...

    ... >Wright</sc> (ed. 1872): "It has been said that this soliloquy was suggested to Shakespeare by a book of Jerome Cardan De Consolatione, which was translated int ...
333) Commentary Note for lines 1711-12:
1711 Whether tis nobler in the minde to suffer
1712 The slings and arrowes of outragious fortune,

    ... w their swords and throw themselves into the tides as though to terrify them. Shakespeare could have found this in Abraham Fleming's translation of Aelian (A ...

    ... <i>Eudemian Ethics</i>, III. 1 See also <i>Nichomachean Ethics</i>, III. 7). Shakespeare does not disagree with this; but it is not a case in which Aristotle ...
334) Commentary Note for line 1713:
1713 Or to take Armes against a sea of troubles,

    ... </i>I know not why there should be so much solicitude about this metaphor. <i>Shakespeare </i>breaks his metaphors often, and in this desultory speech there ...

    ... d of Sea; and Bishop Warburton peremptorily pronounces, &#8216;Without Question Shakespeare wrote &#8212; &#8216;Against <i>Assail</i> of Troubles.'' In Defence ...

    ... however, be supposed to offer this Similarity of Expression as an Argument that Shakespeare was conversant with &#198;schylus, any more than I take the &#8216;R ...

    ... for Sept. I produced a passage or two from <i>&#198;schylus</i>, to prove, that Shakespeare is not singular in the use of this metaphor, &#8216;A <i>Sea</i> of ...

    ... urally have suggested the word siege, but by the metaphor's having been used by Shakespeare in other places. So in Timon &#8212;'Not ev'n Nature To whom all sor ...

    ... ying to know, that it proceeds from that pen of one, whose living comments upon Shakespeare have never been equalled, and throughout all time, as is most probab ...

    ... of good men, that have passed away, describe them as having fallen asleep. If Shakespeare has gone rather further than this and in the exercise of his art has ...

    ... nst a sea seems an incongruous metaphor: but not the only one of which the good Shakespeare is guilty.&#x201D;&lt;/f. 225r&gt;</para></cn> <cn><sigla><sc>1847<t ...

    ... t small critics here, contrasted with David Garrick, who, in his Oration at the Shakespeare Jubilee, 1769, rises from the explanation and defence of the passage ...

    ... l I oppose and vanquish them?'</para> <para>&#x201C;We may safely conclude that Shakespeare never committed a blunder of so gross a character, especially in a c ...

    ... fifth and sixth lines are corrupt; in other words, they are not the lines which Shakespeare wrote.</para> <para>&#x201C;But it is much easier to establish a str ...

    ... In the next place, the phraseology introduced resembles expressions employed by Shakespeare in other places. With regard to the word <i>seat</i> in the proposed ...

    ... <i>poniard</i>, which it is sufficient for form's sake to show was employed by Shakespeare on more occasions than one.</para> <para>&#x201C;By the help of Mrs. ...

    ... d be something in this reading accordant enough with the tendency manifested by Shakespeare and all men of great wit to push their metaphors beyond the first st ...

    ... us the expressions &#8216;[Greek text],' and &#8216;[Greek text].'</para> <para>Shakespeare himself, I may add, has similar phrases: &#8216;Thus hulling in The ...

    ... propriate one that could be wielded in such a contest, is decisive that neither Shakespeare nor Hamlet had in his head a battle with the ocean.</para> <para>But ...

    ... rk that in the passage cited &lt;/p. 39&gt;&lt;p. 40&gt; from &#8216;Pericles,' Shakespeare shows a consistency in the management of the metaphor there introduc ...

    ... anging> <para>1713 <sc>Keightly</sc> (1867, p. 291): &#x201C;Though we meet in Shakespeare with incongruities as great as this, I incline to read for &#8216;se ...

    ... , and Cimbri erexhibited their intrepidity by armed combats with the sea, which Shakespeare might have found in Abraham Fleming's translation of Aelian, 1576. B ...

    ... ight have found in Abraham Fleming's translation of Aelian, 1576. But elsewhere Shakespeare has &#8216;sea of joys,' &#8216;sea of glory,' &#8216;sea of care.' ...
335) 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 ...

    ... 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 ...
336) Commentary Note for line 1724:
1724 For who would beare the whips and scornes of time,

    ... duration simply, but of a corrupted age of manners. We may be sure, then, that Shakespeare wrote: &#8216;-<i>-the whips and scorns</i> of TH' TIME.' And the de ...

    ... 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 ...

    ... n and castigation of heaven.'&#8212; <i>History of the Rebellion</i>, Prologue. Shakespeare himself seems to use <i>time</i> in another place in the same manner ...
337) Commentary Note for line 1726:
1726 The pangs of {despiz'd} <dispriz'd> loue, the lawes delay,

    ... 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> ...
338) Commentary Note for line 1729:
1729 When he himselfe might his quietas make

    ... lay: but in the 126 Sonnet it occurs &amp; in such a connection as to show that Shakespeare was acquainted with its use in the Exchequer, being connected with a ...
339) Commentary Note for line 1730:
1730 With a bare bodkin; who would <these> fardels beare,

    ... ond the grave.--'Grunt' is one of the many words which have been degraded since Shakespeare wrote.&#x201D;</hanging></cn> <cn><sigla><sc>1862<tab> </tab>cartwri ...
340) 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 ...

    ... esent day.</para> <para>&#x201C;If you will turn to the second folio edition of Shakespeare printed in 1632 you will find the Soliloquy alluded to, &#x201C;To g ...

    ... 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 ...

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