Various. Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850
NOTES
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF "DELIGHTED," AS SOMETIMES USED BY SHAKSPEARE
AUTHORS OF "THE ROLLIAD."
NOTES ON MILTON
DERIVATION OF EASTER
FOLK LORE
FRANCIS LENTON THE POET
Minor Notes
Queries
NICHOLAS FERRAR OF LITTLE GIDDING
STUKELEY'S "STONEHENGE."
ATHELSTANE'S FORM OF DONATION.—MEANING OF "SOMAGIA."
Minor Queries
Replies
ULRICH VON HUTTEN AND THE "EPISTOLÆ OBSCURORUM VIRONUM."
CAXTON'S PRINTING-OFFICE
THE NEW TEMPLE
STRANGERS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES
MISCELLANEOUS
NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS
COMMITTEE FOR THE REPAIR OF THE TOMB OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER
Отрывок из книги
I wish to call attention to the peculiar use of a word, or rather to a peculiar word, in Shakspeare, which I do not recollect to have met with in any other writer. I say a "peculiar word," because, although the verb To delight is well known, and of general use, the word, the same in form, to which I refer, is not only of different meaning, but, as I conceive, of distinct derivation the non-recognition of which has led to a misconception of the meaning of one of the finest passages in Shakspeare. The first passage in which it occurs, that I shall quote, is the well known one from Measure for Measure:
Now, if we examine the construction of this passage, we shall find that it appears to have been the object of the writer to separate, and place in juxtaposition with each other, the conditions of the body and the spirit, each being imagined under circumstances to excite repulsion or terror in a sentient being. The mind sees the former lying in "cold obstruction," rotting, changed from a "sensible warm motion" to a "kneaded clod," every circumstance leaving the impression of dull, dead weight, deprived of force and motion. The spirit, on the other hand, is imagined under circumstances that give the most vivid picture conceivable of utter powerlessness:
