The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, in Ten Volumes; Midsummer night's dream. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. Taming of the shrew

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823 Excerpt: ...amidst his extravagancies, speaks with great justness against the folly of vows. They are made without sufficient regard to the variations of life, and are therefore broken by some unforeseen necessity. They proceed commonly from a presumptuous confidence, and a false estimate of human power. JOHNSON. was a man l the most delicate questions of honour the exact boundaries of right and wrong. Compliment, Jo Shakespeare's time, did not signify, at least, did not only signify verbal civility, or phrases of courtesy, but, according to its original meaning, the trappings, or ornamental appendages of a character, in the same manner and on the same principles of speech with accomplishment. Compliment is, as Armado well expresses it, the vamisk of a complete man. JOHNSON. T2 i. e. I will make a minstrel of him, whose occupation was to relate fabulous stories. DOUCE. 3 i. e. (says an intelligent writer in the Edinburgh Magatlne,) words newly coined, new from the forge. Fire new, ncm off tlu irons, and the Scottish expression bren-M-ni cave all the same origin. STEEVENS.. Long. Costard the swain, and he, shall be our sport; And, so to study, three years is but short. Enter Dull, with a letter, and Costard. Dull. Which is the Duke's own person? Biron. This, fellow; What would'st? Dull. I myself reprehend his own person, for I am his grace's tharborough:4 but I would see his own person in flesh and blood. Biron. This is he. Dull. Signior Anne--Anne--commends you. There's villany abroad; this letter will tell you more. Cost. Sir, the contempts thereof are as touching me. i King. A letter from the magnificent Armado. Biron. How low soever the matter, I hope in God for high words. Long. A high hope for a low having: God grant us patience! Biron. To hear? or forbear hearing...