The Works of Shakespeare in Twelve Volumes Volume 3; Collated with the Oldest Copies and Corrected with Notes Explanatory and Critical (Paperback)

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. 1772 Excerpt: ...soldier, to the sield For by giving Cupid as the word, he.would intimate that' they fought under his banner...... -.., . Do we not likewise see out learning there? O, we havei rnade a vow to study, Lords, ..; And in that vow we have sorsworn our books: ., fW'whca would you, my Liege, or you, oavoy, In leaden contemplation have found out JiUch flery numbers, as the prompting eyes Os beauty's tutors have enriched you withi Other flow arts entirely keep the brain, And theresore sinding barren practisers, Scarce shew a harvest os their heavy toil: But love, sirst learned in a kdy's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But with the motion os all elements, Courses as swist as thought in every-power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their sunctions and their ossices. It adds a precious seeing to the eye: A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, When the suspicious head os thrist is stopt. (32) Love's seeling is more sost and sensible, Than are the tender horns os cockled snails: Love's t6ngue proves dainty Bacchus gross in tastej For savour, is not love a Hercules?..'. (31) A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound. When lie suspicion head os tnest it stops. I have ventured to substitute a word here, against the authority os all the printed copies. There is no contrast os terms betwixt a lover and a thies; but betwixt a lover and a man os thrist there is a remarkable antithesis. Nor is it true in sact, I believe, that a thies, hardened to the prosession, is always suspicious os being apprehended; but he mas' sleep as sound as an honester man. But, according to the sdeas we have os a miser, a man who makes lucre and pels his sole object and pursuit, his fleeps are broken and disturb ed.with perpetu...