The plays of William Shakespeare Volume 5

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. 1805 Excerpt: ... observation. Virtues in an unclean mind are virtues and traitors too. Estimable and useful qualities, joined with an evil disposition, give that evil disposition power over others, who, by admiring the virtue, are betrayed to the malevolence. The Toiler, mentioning the sharpers of his time observes, that some of them are men of such elegance and knowledge, that a young man ivho falls into their way, is betrayed at much by his judgment as his passions. Johnson. In As you Like it, virtues are called traitors, on a very different ground: " to some kind of men " Their graces serve them but as enemies; " No more do yours; your virtues, gentle master, " Are sanctified and holy traitors to you. " O what a world is this, when what is comely " Envenoms him that bears it!" Malone. 9 can season her praise in. To season has here a culinary sense; to preserve by salting. A passage in Twelfth Night will best explain its meaning: " all this to season " A brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh, " And lasting in her remembrance." Malone. So, in Chapman's'version of the third Iliad: " Season'd with tears her joys, to see," &c. Steevens. 7--all livelihood--i. e. all appearance of life. Steevent. 11a, go to, no more; lest it be rather thought you affect a sorrow, than to have." Hel. I do affect a sorrow, indeed, but I have it too.' Laf. Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living. Count. If the living be enemy to the grief, the excess makes it soon mortal.1 ' s lest it be rather thought you affect a sorrow, than to have. Our author is sometimes guilty of such slight inaccuracies; and concludes a sentence as if the former part of it had been constructed...