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IX recital may frequently supply the apparent want of a syllable ; and that even the redundancy of a syllable does not necessarily destroy the metre. I cannot indeed suppose that either Shakespeare or Fletcher used to count the syllables in the lines they composed; they appealed to the ear, the true criterion, and if t... |
Melantius Diphilus, Thou com'st as sent. That is, as if you were sent on purpose. Theobald censures this expression as obscure ; but the word as is frequently used by our Author in the sense of as if. So, in the Elder Brother, Mi ramont says, Tho' I speak no Greek, I love the sound on't; It goes on thundering, as it co... |
Late means lately. So, in the first part of Henry the Sixth, Plantagenet says to Mortimer, Ay, noble uncle, thus ignobly used, Your nephew, late despised Richard, comes. Cleremont And yet he looks like a mortified member, As if he had a fick man's salve in his mouth. Mr. Theobald reads, Sick man's slayer: but Sjcdye is... |
Alluding to the bushes formerly hung out at taverns. Jacques What goldly locks. Read, goldy locks, as in Theobald's edition. Sulpitia The Rutter too is gone. Theobald supposes that this should be routier, which signifies, as he says, in French, an old weather-beaten soldier--but an old weather-beaten soldier would not ... |
That is, by slights founded on an high opinion of our own deserts. Shorthose Away to tables then. That is, to the game of backgammon. Fountaine ...How handsomely This title-piece of anger shews upon her. All the editions, except the first, read, Little piece of anger ; which is clearly the better reading- Isabella My e... |
unchaste, in consequence of that ambition, she is free from falseness, and even above disguise. To denominate the play from Photinus, Achillas, or Septimius, would be doing too much honour to those subordinate characters: Besides, the word false, though applied to deceitfulness, inconstancy, and want of truth, is never... |
The second- Be a maid, and take'em. That is, take them, which appears the true reading. I suppose, though there be no stage-direction for that purpose, that Ardelia offers some jewels to Lucinda, which she presses her to take : the word here confirms the conjecture. Valentinian was neither present, nor had been mention... |
The use of tooth -picks, and of forks also, was first introduced in the time of our poets, by the travelled gentry, and were considered by home bred people as foppish and fantastical. In Massinger's Great Duke of Florence, Ca landrino, when describing the various accom plishments he had acquired since he became a court... |
That is, the authority and influence that a mo ther ought to have, which she considers as les sened and degraded by the humble posture of kneeling. SoPHIA And let the last, and worst act of tyrants. The murder of a mother, &c. The old and the better reading is, The worst act of tyrannies, which has been unnecessarily c... |
Than either tongue or art of your's, &c. And it should not be changed. The amendment is Sympson's, who says, that the words act and art are frequently confounded in these plays : but he is mistaken ; the words are not confounded, but art is designedly used by the Poets as syno nimous to act ; of which I have already sh... |
There is not such a word as glode; we should readglade instead of it. The Servant compares the space between the pinnacles on her pate to a glade cut in wood, in which it is usual to spread nets for woodcocks. Mirabel And yet, perhaps, I know you. There should be no doubt but he then knew him. What Mirabel means to ins... |
Sympson as yet. The Editors retain the old reading, supposing that a set people may mean formal, precise people. But the amendments are unnecessary, and this explanation erroneous. The line should be pointed thus — A set, people call them honest. In the 347th page, Sorano, describing the same persons, says--- They are ... |
In the third Act, Maximian says, speaking of Dioclesian--- All eyes alive in him, yet I am still Maximian. And Delphia afterwards says- Stand still, let me work : so now Maximian. Read Mstximinian in either of these passages, and the metre is destroyed. Yet I must acknow ledge, that there are other passages in which Ma... |
speech is evidently Algripe, whose drowsiness and imbecillity the Nurse means to describe. This passage, therefore, must be restored to her as her just property. Toby's next speech, in which he says that he shall have no wine with his consent, proves that they were not speaking of his friend Heartlove. Lady Alas ! good... |
We must read— This sounds a gentleman, As in Seward's edition : and the meaning is, This sounds like a gentleman. Piniero. ...T am gladder That you made but believe you were cruel. This is ill-expressed ; but the meaning is clear ly this— I am gladder that you did but make me believe you were cruel, and were not so in ... |
The Gentleman had told the Soldier, that the person who insulted him was a passionate Mad man, and entreats him to give confidence to that which he had told him; adding, that he was then in his love-fit. Cupid Have you remember'd a priest, brother? Brother. ...Yes, sister; and this is the young gentleman. These last wo... |
himself the quarrel of another. Tyrwhit's explanation is too learned to be just, and was probably suggested by his official situation. WINTER'S TALE. Act I. Sc. 2. Camillo If ever fearful To do a thing, where I the issue doubted, Whereof the execution did cry out Against the non-performance, 'twas a fear Which oft infe... |
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. Act II. — Sc. 1. Pompey Can from the lap of Egypt's widow pluck The ne'er-lust-wearied Antony. Both Mr. Steevens and myself have mistaken the meaning of this passage ; Pompey calls Cle opatra Egypt's widow, because she had been ac tually married to her brother Ptolemy. Act II. — Sc. 2. ENs/barbus ... |
TIMON OF ATHENS. Act III.— Sc. 6. Timon The rest of your fees, O Gods ! The senators of Athens, &c. We must surely readfoes, with Warburton, instead of fees, I find no sense in the present reading. Act IV.— Sc. 3. Timon To such as may the passive drugs of it Freely command. Though all the modern editors agree in this r... |
Blest is the Man, as far as Earth can bless, Whose meafur'd Passions reach no wild Excess ; Who, urg'd by Nature's Voice, her Gifts enjoys, Nor other Means, than Nature's Force, employs : While warm with Youth the sprightly Current flows, Each vivid Sense with vig'rous Rapture glows ,• And when he droops beneath the Ha... |
MISCELLANEOUS PIECES. II. n desirous to believed it. I observe too, that, while the story lasted, they were most of them trying the experiment upon their own ears, but without any visible effect that I could perceive. Soon afterwards, the company broke up ; and I went home, where I could not help reflecting, with some ... |
Having thus demonstrated, by many instances, that the ear is the most material part in the whole mechanism of our structure, and that it is both the seat and source of honor, power, pleasure, and pain, I cannot conclude without an earnest exhortation to all my country-folks, of whatsoever rank or sex, to take the utmos... |
On the other hand, soould future parliaments, by arts of a designing minister, with the help of a corrupted glass-grinder, have delusive and perversive glasses slipped upon them, what might they see ? or what might they not see r nobody can tell. I am fore every body ought to fear they might possibly behold a numerous ... |
To have a certain number of persons appointed to examine and license all the glasses, that soould be used in this kingdom, would be lodging so great a trust in those persons, that the temptations to betray it would be exceedingly great too ; and it is to be feared that people of quality would not take the trouble of it... |
These considerations determined me to make this first paper serve as an introduction to my future labours, though I am sensible that a weekly author is in a very dif ferent situation from an author in the lump. — If a whole sale dealer can, by an insinuating preface, prevail with people to buy the whole piece, his busi... |
" My Dear, " X HAVE just now received yours, and am very " sorry for the uneasiness your husoand's behaviour has " given you of late ; though I cannot be of your opinion, "' that he suspects our connexion. We have been bred up " together from children, and have lived in the strictest " friendsoip ever since; so that I ... |
LORD CHESTERFIELD'S done it with so little wit, that they have not been able to gain the very laughers on their side. Thanks be to their dulness, it rises against their opposition : he that laughs with them, must laugh without a jest, and therefore, as of ten as I saw my predecessors employ their wit against those who ... |
This act of power so strenuously withstood at first, and so unwillingly submitted to at last, lays but an indifferent foundation of domestic harmony during their retirement ; and I am surprized that the throne, which never fails, at the end of the session, to recommend to both houses cer tain wholesome and general rule... |
XII. COMMON SENSE. Saturday, Sept. 3, 1737. N" 32. IV! O N S I E U R de la Rochefoucault very justly ob serves, that people are never ridiculous from their real, but from their affected, characters ; they cannot help be ingwhat they are, but they can help attempting to appear what they are not. A hump-back is by no mea... |
Baviufe, ballasted with all the lead os a German, will rise intopoetry, without either ear or invention : he recites, what he calls his verses, to his female relations, and his city acquaintance, but never mentions them to Pope. Perplexus insists upon being a man of business, and, though formed, at best, for a letter-c... |
LORD CHESTERFIELD'S who get their parts by heart, and are to simulate but for three hours, have a regard, in choosing those parts, to the natural bent of their genius. Penkethman never acted Cato, nor Booth Scrub ; their invincible unfitness for those characters would inevitably have broke out, in the soort time of the... |
XIII. COMMON SENSE. Saturday, Sept. io, 1737. N° 33. JL A A V I N G, in my former paper, censured, with freedom, the affectations and follies of my own sex, I flatter myself, that I soall meet with the indulgence of the ladies, while I consider, with the fame impartiality, those weaknesses and vanities, to which their ... |
LORD CHESTERFIELD'S and soften ours : their tenderness is the proper reward for soe toils we undergo for their preservation, and the ease and chearfulness of their conversation, our desirable retreat from the labors of study and business. They are confined within the narrow limits of domestic offices; and when they str... |
7a . LORD CHESTERFIELD'S affect to be so. As her good breeding proceeds jointly from good nature and good sense, the former inclines her to oblige, and the latter soews her the easiest and best way of doing it. Woman's beauty, like men's wit, is o-enerally fatal to the owners, unless directed by a judg ment, which seld... |
intothe bargain. But one can no more help it, than one can help laughing at an aukward fellow, who, going to sit down, misses his chair, and falls ridiculously upon his breech ; though, to be sore, there is no joke in it, and very probably the poor man has hurt himself too. Mr. Osoorne has quite a different effect upon... |
LORD CHESTERFIELD'S man's transactions, it is then that their effects are most to be dreaded. The Spectator's next supposition is, " that the gay " prospect of the fields and the meadows, with the court " soip of the birds on every tree, naturally unbend the *' mind, and soften it to pleasure." What effect this ru ral ... |
" soould not we ?" She tenderly replies, " I believe we " soould." Can one refuse to give credit to the so recent testimonies and experience of two ladies of such agreeable characters ? And the belief of a pleasure, natu rally invites to the pursuit of it. It would be endless to specify the particular plays which I mus... |
Moreover, these glorious toils are crowned with the just rewards of all chronical distempers ; the gout, the stone, the scurvy, and the palsy, are the never-failing trophies of their atchievements. Were these honors, like simple knighthood, only to be enjoyed by those who had merited them, it would be no great matter •... |
As the best account of this great action is in the Daily Gazetteer of the 25th of December last, which nobody reads, I will, for the satisfaction of the curious, transcribe it from thence. " Hanover, December the 1 2th, O. S. On the 4th " instant a detachment of Hanoverians, consisting of five " hundred men, with two f... |
LORD CHESTERFIELD'S himself of the fortress by his hooks, and other warlike in struments, he declines the right of conquest, which he might undoubtedly have insisted upon, but quiets the pos session, by virtue of an instrument prepared by a lawyer and scrivener, whom he had sent for from Hamburg for that purpose. This ... |
Upon this occasion, give me leave, sir, to suggest to you my thoughts, upon the lustre and advantage, which England receives -from being so happily annexed to his majesty's German dominions, in answer to the vulgar prejudices too commonly entertained against them. While England was unconnected with any dominions upon t... |
The absurdity of the proposal struck me at first ; and I foresaw a thousand inconveniencies in it, though not half so many as I have since felt. However, knowing that direct contradiction, though supported by the best argu ments, was not the likeliest method to convert a female disputant, I seemed a little to doubt, an... |
Our laborious neighbours and kinsmen, the Germans, are not without their inventions and happy discoveries in the art of medicine ; for they laugh at a wound through the heart, if they can but applytheir powder of sympathy •—not to the wound itself, but to the sword or bullet that made it. Having now, at least in my own... |
I acquainted you, that in the education of my son I had conformed to the common custom of this country, perhaps I conformed to it too much and too soon ; and that I carried him to Paris, from whence, after six months stay, he was to go upon his travels, and take the usual tour of Italy and Germany. I thought it very ne... |
" does not desire to keep such company. I advised him " to take an Italian master ; which he flatly refused, say " i ig that he soould have time enough to learn Italian, «* wl en he went back to England. But he has taken, of v' hii sself, a music master to teach him to play upon the *' G :rman flute, upon which he thro... |
XXVII. THE WORLD. Saturday, Dec. 7, 1753 NO49. A HOUGH I am an old fellow, I am neither sour nor silly enough yet, to be a snarling laudator temporis acli, and to hate or despise the present age because it i3 the present. I cannot, like many of my cotemporaries, rail at the won derful degeneracy and corruption of these... |
LORD CHESTERFIELD'S no one of his subjects wisoed it more heartily than I did; that hitherto it had not appeared to me, that there could be the least relation between the wine I drank, and the king's state of health, and that, till I was convinced that impairing my own health would improve his Majesty's^ I was resolved... |
XXX. THE WORLD. Saturday, Oct. 3, 1754. N° 92. X HE entertainment, I do not fay the diversion, which I mentioned in my last paper, tumbled my imagination to such a degree, and suggested such a variety of indistinct ideas to my mind, that, notwithstanding all the pains I took to sort and digest, I could not reduce, them... |
wanting, which indeed happens but seldom, indignation instantly makes new ones ; and I have often known four or five syllables that never met one another before, hastily and fortuitously jumbled intosome word of mighty import. Nor is the tender part of our language less obliged to that soft and amiable sex ; their love... |
LORD CHESTERFIELD'S its adverb vastly mean any thing, and are the fasoionable words of the most fasoionable people. A fine woman, underthis head I comprehend all fine gentlemen too, not knowing in truth where to place them properly, is vastly obliged, or vastly offended, vastly glad, or vastly sorry. Large objects are ... |
In the city, for my paper has made its way to that end of the town, upon the supposition of its being a fasoionable one in this, I am received and considered in a different light. All my general reflexions upon the vices or the fol lies of the age are, by the ladies, supposed to be levelled at particular persons, or at... |
" we severally endeavour by all possible means, you " to fatten, and I to i^aste, till we can meet at the " medium of eighteen stone. I will lose no time on my " part, being impatient to prove to you that I am not " quite unworthy of the good opinion which you are pleas " ed to express of, si R, " Your very humble serv... |
MISCELLANEOUS PIECES. XL. aot ter whether they are paid or not ; some how or other those people will shift for themselves, or, at worst, fall ulti mately upon the husoand. I will also advise those fine women, who, by an unfortunate concurrence of odious circumstances, have been obliged to begin an acquaintance with the... |
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