Identifier: playsofwilliamsh12shak (find matches)
Title: The plays of William Shakspeare : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
Year: 1803 (1800s)
Authors: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Steevens, George, 1736-1800 Reed, Isaac, 1742-1807 Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
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Publisher: London : Printed for J. Johnson ... (et al.)
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pportunity fliould be fo eagerly fnatched to tixat with con-tempt that part of his character which was the leaft contemptible.King Jamess theological knowledge was not inconfiderable. Toprelide at difputations is not very fuitable to a king, but to un-derftand the queftions is furely laudable. The poet, if he hadJames in his thoughts, was no Ikilful encomiaft ; for the mentionof Harrys Ikill in war forced upon the remembrance of his au-dience the great deficiency of their prefent king; who yet, withall his faults, and many faults he had, was fuch, that Sir RobertCotton fays, he would be content that England fliould neverhave a better, provided that it fhould never have a uotfe. Johnson.Thofe who are folicitous that juftice fhould be done to thetheological knowledge of our Britifh Solomon, may very eafilyfurnifli themfelves with fpecimens of it from a book entitled.Rex Platonicus, Jtve de polcntiffimi Principis Jacobi Britanni-arum Regis ad ilu/JiriJJlmam Acadnniam Oxonienfem adventUj,
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KING HENRY V. 283 And, all-admiring, with an inward wifli You would delire, the king were made a prelate: Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would fay,—it hath been all-in-all his fludy: Lift his difcourle of war, and you fhall hear A fearful battle renderd you in mufick: Turn him to any caufe of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloofe, Familiar as his garter; that, when he fpeaks. The air, a charterd libertine, is ftill,^ And the mute wonder lurketh in mens ears, To fteal his fweet and honeyed fentences; So that the art and pradtick part of life ^ Aug. 27. Anno 1005. In this pferformance we may ftill hearhim reafoning in Divinity, Phyfick, Jurifprudence, and Philo-fophy. On the fecond of thele lubje6ts he has not failed to ex-prefs his well-known enmity to tolacco, and throws out many aroyal witticifm on the Medici Nicotianiftae, and Tobacco-niftae of the age 5 infomuch, that Ifaac Wake, the chroniclerof his triumphs at Oxford, declares, that nemo nifi iniquifli-mu

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