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Contract Context Printing 160 characters of context... Expand Context 201) Commentary Note for line 1704:1704 Is not more ougly to the thing that helps it,... ra> </ehline> <cn><para>1765<tab> </tab>JOHN1</para> <para>1704 <b>to</b>] <sc>Johnson</sc> (ed. 1765): “That is, <i>compared with</i> the thing that h ...
202) Commentary Note for line 1710:1710 Ham. To be, or not to be, that is the question,... hn1</sc></sigla><hanging><sc>john1</sc></hanging> <para>1710-42<tab> </tab> <sc>Johnson</sc> (ed. 1765): “Of this celebrated soliloquy, which bursting fr ...
... 3</sigla><hanging><sc>v1773 = john1</sc></hanging> <para>1710-42<tab> </tab><sc>Johnson</sc> (<i>apud</i> ed. 1773): “Of the celebrated soliloquy, whic ...
... tab> </tab>Malone (<i>apud </i> ed. 1778): “I cannot but think that Dr. Johnson's explication of this passage, though excellent on the whole, is wrong i ...
... ;. <i>or to take arms</i>--The train of <i>Hamlet's</i> reasoning, which Dr. <i>Johnson</i> has so well explained, is sufficiently clear, which ever way the wor ...
... /sc></hanging> <para>1710-15<tab> </tab><sc>Malone</sc> (ed. 1790): “Dr. Johnson's explication of the first five lines of this passage is surely wrong. ...
... rom the middle of the fifth line, ‘If to die, were to sleep,' &c. Dr. Johnson has marked out with his usual accuracy. In our poet's <i>Rape of Lucrec ...
... To be, or not to be</b>] <sc>Wesley</sc> (ms. notes 1790, p.45): “Dr. Johnson's explanation is preferable in my mind. ‘To be or not to be' seems ...
... . This will be found more congruous to the remainder of the soliloquy. (M. says Johnson has ‘well explained' this speech.) ‘Explained' is the wrong ...
... n has ‘well explained' this speech.) ‘Explained' is the wrong word. Johnson has paraphrased the speech well, tho', I think, unnecessarily, but it ex ...
... at technically may call for some unwinding of explanation; and here, as far as Johnson appears to us to have correctly given the sense, we shall transcribe it. ...
... macd</sc></hanging> <para>1710 <sc>Dowden</sc> (ed. 1899): “Explained by Johnson as a future life, or non-existence after death; by Malone, to live, or t ...
... es have arisen through the temptation to supply what Hamlet himself does not. Johnson's famous observation that the speech 'is connected rather in the speaker ...
... ing' (Knights, <i>An Approach to 'Hamlet'</i>, pp. 74-80). Most commentators, Johnson among them, have found it perfectly possible to trace out a train of tho ...
... to the different additions they have made to what Hamlet actually says. When Johnson begins his paraphrase, '<i>Before I can form any rational scheme of acti ...
... resent state' are an addition which transforms 'the question' altogether. Yet Johnson's other addition - 'Before I can form any rational scheme of action' - h ...
... action' - has been less frequently remarked on. Indeed Malone, who castigated Johnson's 'wrong' beginning, appears to have accepted and even shared the error ...
... s, could have been 'appropriately given' only to Hamlet (i. 26). Others, from Johnson to Kenneth Muir (<i>Hamlet</i>, pp. 34-5), have stressed that the ills i ...
203) Commentary Note for line 1713:1713 Or to take Armes against a sea of troubles,... ohn1 = warb +</sc></hanging> <para>1713 <b> against a sea of troubles</b>] <sc>Johnson</sc> (ed. 1765): “Mr. Pope proposed <i>siege. </i>I know not wh ...
... ch there is no need to preserve exactness of metaphor). It is strange that Dr. Johnson should excuse a man's talking nonsense, especially when all the rest of ...
... mes against a sea of troubles</b>] <sc>Caldecott</sc> (ed. 1832): “Here Johnson, who not unfrequently took alarms not very philosophical, indignantly ch ...
... Richard III.' </p. 40></para> <para><p. 41> It is singular that Dr. Johnson, in his note to Hamlet's soliloquy, totally misses the drift of the comm ...
... h I have been occupied. He construes it as follows:—</para> <para>[quotes Johnson]</para> <para>On this comment, Malone very justly remarks:—</para> ...
204) Commentary Note for lines 1714-15:1714 And by opposing, end them, to die to sleepe1715 No more, and by a sleepe, to say we end... questionary phrase of ‘No more?' In the accurate editions of Capell, and Johnson, Steevens and Reed, this grammatical resolution of the text is adopted, ...
... the text of other editions affords.</para> <para>The explanatory comment of Dr. Johnson, on this celebrated philosophical revery, </p. 64><p. 65> is ...
... ent my real acceptation of the meaning of the text as given in Capell's, and in Johnson's editions.</para> <para>The elliptical phrase ‘No more,' with the ...
205) Commentary Note for line 1721:1721 When we haue shuffled off this mortall coyle... d voc. So Timon of Athens pge. 19. Much Ado &c pge. 39. Tempest pge. 11. B. Johnson. v. 2. pge. 442.”</para></cn> <cn><sigla>1773<tab> </tab>v1773</s ...
... ds,' those far-famed masters of the English tongue William Warburton and Samuel Johnson and asked them what they understood by ‘mortal coil,' he most assu ...
206) Commentary Note for line 1724:1724 For who would beare the whips and scornes of time,... nts, See<i> Minshieu's Guide into the Tongues</i>, col. 597. So used by <i>Ben Johnson, Cynthia's Revels</i>, act. ii. sc. iv. ‘<i>Phil. </i>Faith, how l ...
... anging><sc>john1 = warb +</sc></hanging> <para>1724 <b>For . . . time</b>] <sc>Johnson</sc> (ed. 1765): “I doubt whether the corruption of this passage ...
... , confirms this emendation.” </para> <para>1724 <b>For . . . time</b>] JOHNSON (ed. 1773): “I doubt whether the corruption of this passage is no ...
... companions, as public punishment and infamy. <i>Quips</i>, the word which Dr. Johnson would introduce, is derived, by all etymologists, from<i> whips</i>. Ham ...
... i>, enumerates the various Ills to which Human Life is Subject, without, as Dr. Johnson well observes, remembering those which are peculiar to his own princely ...
... Whips and Scorns of Time is differently understood by our two last Editors. Dr. Johnson thinks that Whips and Scorns are not connected together, and would read, ...
... companions, as public punishment and infamy. <i>Quips</i>, the word which Dr. Johnson would introduce, is derived, by all etymologists, from<i> whips</i>. Ham ...
... for <i>the time, </i>is a very usual expression with our old writers. Thus Ben Johnson's Every Man Out of his Humour: ‘Oh, how I hate the monstrousness < ...
... nes of time] <sc>Elze</sc> (ed. 1882): “The conjectures of Warburton, Dr Johnson, &c. have done no more than to show that the passage can hardly be r ...
207) Commentary Note for line 1731:1731 To grunt and sweat vnder a wearie life,... la> <hanging><sc>john1</sc> </hanging> <para>1731<tab> </tab> <b>grunt</b>] <sc>Johnson</sc> (ed. 1765): “All the old copies have, <i>to </i>grunt <i>an ...
... </tab>RITSON</para> <para>1731 <b>grunt</b>] RITSON (1783, p. 200): “Dr. Johnson is for or against Shakspeares own words just as it suits his purpose or ...
... ears</i>, Shakspeare may be so transmografyed (how do your ears bear that, dr. Johnson?) and frittered away, by his friendly editors, in the course of a few ye ...
... e, and not to substitute what may appear to the present age preferable: and Dr. Johnson was of the same opinion. See his note on the word <i>hugger-mugger</i>, ...
... —grunt, in Hamlet's soliloquy, was declared to be the true reading by Dr. Johnson, in his edition 1765, Vol. VIII. p. 209; and was afterwards justified by ...
... ected from the text of our antient authors, the history of our language, as Dr. Johnson has justly observed, will soon be lost.' </para> <para>In the same idle ...
... t; and not to substitute what may appear to the present age preferable; and Dr. Johnson was of the same opinion. See his note on the word <i>hugger-mugger</i>, ...
... unpleasing sound, for we find it used by Chaucer and others.'</para> <para>Dr. Johnson's note in act. iv. is, I find, as follows: ‘In <i>hugger-mugger</i ...
... This is the true reading, according to all the old copies; ‘although,' as Johnson observes, ‘it can scarcely be borne by modern ears.' On this point ...
208) Commentary Note for line 1743:1743 The faire Ophelia, Nimph in thy orizons... 5<tab> </tab>john1</sc></sigla><hanging><sc>john1</sc></hanging> <para><sc>1743 Johnson</sc> (ed. 1765): “This is a touch of nature. <i>Hamlet</i>, at th ...
... /sc></hanging> <para><sc>1743-4<tab> </tab>Davies </sc>(1765-): “Here Dr Johnson observes is a touch of Nature, on the sight of Ophelia he does recollect ...
... ><sc>davies</sc></hanging> <para><sc>Davies</sc> (1784, p. 78): "This, says Dr. Johnson, is a touch of nature; for Hamlet, on the sight of Ophelia, does not rec ...
... of sarcasm in ‘all my sins' shows that Ham. speaks ironically, and not as Johnson maintained in ‘grave and solemn' mood. Dowden sees ‘estrang ...
... tab> </tab>john1</sc></sigla><hanging><sc>john1</sc></hanging> <para><sc>1762-3 Johnson</sc> (ed. 1765): [reads “you should”] “This is the ...
... : “The reply of Ophelia proves beyond doubt that this reading is wrong. Johnson says that the folio reads, ‘Your honesty should admit no discourse ...
... not admit your beauty to any discourse with her;' which is the very sense that Johnson contends for, and expressed with sufficient clearness.”</para></c ...
... mit your beauty to any discourse with her;” which is the very sense that Johnson contends for, and expressed with sufficient clearness.”</para> <p ...
... ii. 3. 30: 'For honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.' Johnson proposed to read here, 'You should admit your honesty to no discourse wi ...
210) Commentary Note for lines 1779-81:1779-80 very proude, reuengefull, ambitious, with more offences at my beck,1781-2 then I haue thoughts to put them in, imagination to giue them shape,1779-81 ... "</para></cn> <cn><sigla><sc>1765<tab> </tab>john1</sc></sigla><para><sc>1781-2 Johnson</sc> (ed. 1765): “That is, always ready to come about me. . .<i>T ...
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