The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 2F. C. and J. Rivington; T. Egerton; J. Cuthell; Scatcherd and Letterman; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Cadell and Davies ... [and 28 others in London], J. Deighton and sons, Cambridge: Wilson and son, York: and Stirling and Slade, Fairbairn and Anderson, and D. Brown, Edinburgh., 1821 |
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... body to that king ; the duty of which long resided ; and as they express it , " had continued by some descents in good reputation and credit . " Heralds , when once they were satisfied that there was a sufficient ground for granting the ...
... body to that king ; the duty of which long resided ; and as they express it , " had continued by some descents in good reputation and credit . " Heralds , when once they were satisfied that there was a sufficient ground for granting the ...
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... body to draw theym on . And the Squyer for the body aught to take the charge of the cupborde for all nyght ; and if please the kyng to have a palett about his traverse for all night , there must be two Squyers for the body , or ells one ...
... body to draw theym on . And the Squyer for the body aught to take the charge of the cupborde for all nyght ; and if please the kyng to have a palett about his traverse for all night , there must be two Squyers for the body , or ells one ...
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... body by day but the principal , most essential , and most honourable part of his duty was at night ; for when the king retired to bed , the esquire had the concentrated power of the gentleman ushers , the vice chamberlain , and lord ...
... body by day but the principal , most essential , and most honourable part of his duty was at night ; for when the king retired to bed , the esquire had the concentrated power of the gentleman ushers , the vice chamberlain , and lord ...
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... body to two successive kings , goes circumstantially through the whole of the esquire's business of the night ; from whence it will appear , that even so lately as the middle of the last century , the office was of so confidential a ...
... body to two successive kings , goes circumstantially through the whole of the esquire's business of the night ; from whence it will appear , that even so lately as the middle of the last century , the office was of so confidential a ...
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... body , in suche a chamber as they shalbe appoynted unto . J " Item , the said pageis shall doo make redy the said knyghts and Squyers for the body , and bere theyr gere to the kyngs great chamber at the instaunce of the said knyghts and ...
... body , in suche a chamber as they shalbe appoynted unto . J " Item , the said pageis shall doo make redy the said knyghts and Squyers for the body , and bere theyr gere to the kyngs great chamber at the instaunce of the said knyghts and ...
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Page 393 - And hang their heads with sorrow : good grows with her In her days every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine what he plants, and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours. God shall be truly known ; and those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honour, And by those claim their greatness, not by blood.
Page 421 - Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.
Page 299 - Under the opening eyelids of the morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening, bright, Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
Page 664 - His mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 351 - Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 603 - In the name of God, Amen. I William Shakspeare of Stratford-upon Avon, in the county of Warwick, gent. in perfect health and memory, (God be praised !) do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following : that is to say : First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Page 288 - Will in that station, was the faint, general, and almost lost ideas, he had of having once seen him act a part in one of his own comedies, wherein being to personate a decrepit old man, he wore a long beard, and appeared so weak and drooping, and unable to walk, that he was forced to be supported and carried by another person to a table, at which he was seated among some company who were eating, and one of them sung a song.
Page 664 - Bookes depends upon your capacities : and not of your heads alone, but of your purses. Well! It is now publique, & you wil stand for your priviledges wee know: to read and censure.
Page 306 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 293 - Tis miracle to see a first good play ; All hawthorns do not bloom on Christmas-day. A slender poet must have time to grow, And spread and burnish as his brothers do. Who still looks lean, sure with some mark is cursed ; But no man can be Falstaff-fat at first.