Published inThe New Monthly Magazine(1822), vol.IV.p. 238, under the title of ‘Table Talk, No.III.’
‘Or is it a fee-griefDue to some single breast?’Macbeth, ActIV.Scene 3.
‘Or is it a fee-griefDue to some single breast?’Macbeth, ActIV.Scene 3.
‘Or is it a fee-griefDue to some single breast?’Macbeth, ActIV.Scene 3.
‘Or is it a fee-grief
Due to some single breast?’
Macbeth, ActIV.Scene 3.
‘and his grave rebukeSevere in youthful beauty, added graceInvincible.’Paradise Lost,IV, 844–6.
‘and his grave rebukeSevere in youthful beauty, added graceInvincible.’Paradise Lost,IV, 844–6.
‘and his grave rebukeSevere in youthful beauty, added graceInvincible.’Paradise Lost,IV, 844–6.
‘and his grave rebuke
Severe in youthful beauty, added grace
Invincible.’
Paradise Lost,IV, 844–6.
Published inThe New Monthly Magazine(1822, vol.IV.p. 73) under the heading ‘Table Talk, No. 1.’ Mr. W. C. Hazlitt in his edition ofTable Talkgives some variations between the printed text of this essay and the originalMS.
‘For that fine madness still he did retain,Which rightly should possess a Poet’s brain.’Drayton,Censure of Poets.
‘For that fine madness still he did retain,Which rightly should possess a Poet’s brain.’Drayton,Censure of Poets.
‘For that fine madness still he did retain,Which rightly should possess a Poet’s brain.’Drayton,Censure of Poets.
‘For that fine madness still he did retain,
Which rightly should possess a Poet’s brain.’
Drayton,Censure of Poets.
Some variations from theMS.are given in Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s edition ofTable Talk.
‘Sleep on,Blest pair! and O! yet happiest, if ye seekNo happier state, and know to know no more.’Paradise Lost,IV.773–5.
‘Sleep on,Blest pair! and O! yet happiest, if ye seekNo happier state, and know to know no more.’Paradise Lost,IV.773–5.
‘Sleep on,Blest pair! and O! yet happiest, if ye seekNo happier state, and know to know no more.’Paradise Lost,IV.773–5.
‘Sleep on,
Blest pair! and O! yet happiest, if ye seek
No happier state, and know to know no more.’
Paradise Lost,IV.773–5.
‘a great arithmetician,One Michael Cassio, a Florentine.’Othello, ActI.Scene 1.
‘a great arithmetician,One Michael Cassio, a Florentine.’Othello, ActI.Scene 1.
‘a great arithmetician,One Michael Cassio, a Florentine.’Othello, ActI.Scene 1.
‘a great arithmetician,
One Michael Cassio, a Florentine.’
Othello, ActI.Scene 1.
‘And thou art long, and lank, and brown,As is the ribbed sea-sand,’
‘And thou art long, and lank, and brown,As is the ribbed sea-sand,’
‘And thou art long, and lank, and brown,As is the ribbed sea-sand,’
‘And thou art long, and lank, and brown,
As is the ribbed sea-sand,’
‘I bear a charmed life, which must not yieldTo one of woman born.’Macbeth, ActV.Scene 8.
‘I bear a charmed life, which must not yieldTo one of woman born.’Macbeth, ActV.Scene 8.
‘I bear a charmed life, which must not yieldTo one of woman born.’Macbeth, ActV.Scene 8.
‘I bear a charmed life, which must not yield
To one of woman born.’
Macbeth, ActV.Scene 8.
‘By heaven, I had rather coin my heart,And drop my blood for drachmas,’ etc.Julius Caesar, ActIV.Scene 3.
‘By heaven, I had rather coin my heart,And drop my blood for drachmas,’ etc.Julius Caesar, ActIV.Scene 3.
‘By heaven, I had rather coin my heart,And drop my blood for drachmas,’ etc.Julius Caesar, ActIV.Scene 3.
‘By heaven, I had rather coin my heart,
And drop my blood for drachmas,’ etc.
Julius Caesar, ActIV.Scene 3.
‘What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice,Of Attic taste, with wine,’ etc.Milton, SonnetXX.(to Mr. Lawrence).
‘What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice,Of Attic taste, with wine,’ etc.Milton, SonnetXX.(to Mr. Lawrence).
‘What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice,Of Attic taste, with wine,’ etc.Milton, SonnetXX.(to Mr. Lawrence).
‘What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice,
Of Attic taste, with wine,’ etc.
Milton, SonnetXX.(to Mr. Lawrence).
‘the fairest flowers o’ the seasonAre our carnations and streak’d gillyvors.’Winter’s Tale, ActIV.Scene 4.
‘the fairest flowers o’ the seasonAre our carnations and streak’d gillyvors.’Winter’s Tale, ActIV.Scene 4.
‘the fairest flowers o’ the seasonAre our carnations and streak’d gillyvors.’Winter’s Tale, ActIV.Scene 4.
‘the fairest flowers o’ the season
Are our carnations and streak’d gillyvors.’
Winter’s Tale, ActIV.Scene 4.
‘nor could the Muse defendHer son.’Paradise Lost,VII.37.
‘nor could the Muse defendHer son.’Paradise Lost,VII.37.
‘nor could the Muse defendHer son.’Paradise Lost,VII.37.
‘nor could the Muse defend
Her son.’
Paradise Lost,VII.37.
‘Assumes the god,Affects to nod,And seems to shake the spheres.’Dryden,Alexander’s Feast, 39–41.
‘Assumes the god,Affects to nod,And seems to shake the spheres.’Dryden,Alexander’s Feast, 39–41.
‘Assumes the god,Affects to nod,And seems to shake the spheres.’Dryden,Alexander’s Feast, 39–41.
‘Assumes the god,
Affects to nod,
And seems to shake the spheres.’
Dryden,Alexander’s Feast, 39–41.
‘Others may boast a single man to kill:But I the blood of thousands daily kill,’ etc.
‘Others may boast a single man to kill:But I the blood of thousands daily kill,’ etc.
‘Others may boast a single man to kill:But I the blood of thousands daily kill,’ etc.
‘Others may boast a single man to kill:
But I the blood of thousands daily kill,’ etc.
‘Therefore, since brevity is the soul of witAnd tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,’etc.Hamlet, ActII.Scene 2.
‘Therefore, since brevity is the soul of witAnd tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,’etc.Hamlet, ActII.Scene 2.
‘Therefore, since brevity is the soul of witAnd tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,’etc.Hamlet, ActII.Scene 2.
‘Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,’etc.
Hamlet, ActII.Scene 2.
Published inThe New Monthly Magazine(1822), vol.IV.p. 127, under the title of ‘Table Talk No. II.’
‘We put on Berenice’s hair,And sit in Cassiopeia’s chair.’Dixon’sCanidia, or The Witches.
‘We put on Berenice’s hair,And sit in Cassiopeia’s chair.’Dixon’sCanidia, or The Witches.
‘We put on Berenice’s hair,And sit in Cassiopeia’s chair.’Dixon’sCanidia, or The Witches.
‘We put on Berenice’s hair,
And sit in Cassiopeia’s chair.’
Dixon’sCanidia, or The Witches.
‘Ariadne’s crowne and Cassiopeia’s chayre.’Randolph’sPoems, 1640, p. 14.
‘Ariadne’s crowne and Cassiopeia’s chayre.’Randolph’sPoems, 1640, p. 14.
‘Ariadne’s crowne and Cassiopeia’s chayre.’Randolph’sPoems, 1640, p. 14.
‘Ariadne’s crowne and Cassiopeia’s chayre.’
Randolph’sPoems, 1640, p. 14.
‘Not Berenice’s locks first rose so bright.’Pope,Rape of the Lock, v. 129.
‘Not Berenice’s locks first rose so bright.’Pope,Rape of the Lock, v. 129.
‘Not Berenice’s locks first rose so bright.’Pope,Rape of the Lock, v. 129.
‘Not Berenice’s locks first rose so bright.’
Pope,Rape of the Lock, v. 129.
A few variations of the text from theMS.are given in Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s edition ofTable Talk.
‘Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fame’s eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.’Spenser,The Faerie Queene, BookIV.Canto ii. Stanza 32.
‘Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fame’s eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.’Spenser,The Faerie Queene, BookIV.Canto ii. Stanza 32.
‘Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fame’s eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.’Spenser,The Faerie Queene, BookIV.Canto ii. Stanza 32.
‘Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,
On Fame’s eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.’
Spenser,The Faerie Queene, BookIV.Canto ii. Stanza 32.
‘Nec sermones ego mallemRepentes per humum quam res componere gestas.’Horace,Epistles,II.i. 250–1.
‘Nec sermones ego mallemRepentes per humum quam res componere gestas.’Horace,Epistles,II.i. 250–1.
‘Nec sermones ego mallemRepentes per humum quam res componere gestas.’Horace,Epistles,II.i. 250–1.
‘Nec sermones ego mallem
Repentes per humum quam res componere gestas.’
Horace,Epistles,II.i. 250–1.
‘My affectionsAre then most humble; I have no ambitionTo see a goodlier man.’The Tempest, ActI.Scene 2.
‘My affectionsAre then most humble; I have no ambitionTo see a goodlier man.’The Tempest, ActI.Scene 2.
‘My affectionsAre then most humble; I have no ambitionTo see a goodlier man.’The Tempest, ActI.Scene 2.
‘My affections
Are then most humble; I have no ambition
To see a goodlier man.’
The Tempest, ActI.Scene 2.
‘And on his crestSat Horror plumed.’Paradise Lost,IV.988–9.
‘And on his crestSat Horror plumed.’Paradise Lost,IV.988–9.
‘And on his crestSat Horror plumed.’Paradise Lost,IV.988–9.
‘And on his crest
Sat Horror plumed.’
Paradise Lost,IV.988–9.
‘’Twas transient in its nature, as in show’Twas durable: as worthless as it seemedIntrinsically precious; to the footTreacherous and false; it smiled, and it was cold.’The Task,V.173–6.
‘’Twas transient in its nature, as in show’Twas durable: as worthless as it seemedIntrinsically precious; to the footTreacherous and false; it smiled, and it was cold.’The Task,V.173–6.
‘’Twas transient in its nature, as in show’Twas durable: as worthless as it seemedIntrinsically precious; to the footTreacherous and false; it smiled, and it was cold.’The Task,V.173–6.
‘’Twas transient in its nature, as in show
’Twas durable: as worthless as it seemed
Intrinsically precious; to the foot
Treacherous and false; it smiled, and it was cold.’
The Task,V.173–6.