Illustrations of Shakespeare and of Ancient Manners: With Dissertations on the Clowns and Fools of Shakespeare ; on the Collection of Popular Tales Entitled Gesta Romanorum, and on the English Morris Dance |
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... Queen of Corinth , Act III . Scene 1 , " NEAN . He is another ass , he says , I believe him . UNCLE . We be three , heroical prince . NEAN . Nay then we must have the picture of ' em , and the word nos sumus . " SCENE 3. Page . 53 . CLO ...
... Queen of Corinth , Act III . Scene 1 , " NEAN . He is another ass , he says , I believe him . UNCLE . We be three , heroical prince . NEAN . Nay then we must have the picture of ' em , and the word nos sumus . " SCENE 3. Page . 53 . CLO ...
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... queen of France , and had been already twice published . In 1599 a second part came out , which is much more difficult to be met with than the former , and sometimes contains a neat portrait , by Gaultier , of Ca- therine de Bourbon ...
... queen of France , and had been already twice published . In 1599 a second part came out , which is much more difficult to be met with than the former , and sometimes contains a neat portrait , by Gaultier , of Ca- therine de Bourbon ...
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... Queen Elizabeth and the Countess of Pem- broke . These poems were composed by John Taylor the water poet . It appears that the work had gone through twelve impressions , and yet a copy is now scarcely to be met with . This may be ...
... Queen Elizabeth and the Countess of Pem- broke . These poems were composed by John Taylor the water poet . It appears that the work had gone through twelve impressions , and yet a copy is now scarcely to be met with . This may be ...
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... queen of Sheba , and the sign has been corrupted into that of the bell - savage , as may be gathered from the inedited metrical romance of Alexander , supposed to have been written at the beginning of the fourteenth century by Adam ...
... queen of Sheba , and the sign has been corrupted into that of the bell - savage , as may be gathered from the inedited metrical romance of Alexander , supposed to have been written at the beginning of the fourteenth century by Adam ...
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... queen of Sheba was as well adapted to a sign as the wise men of the East , afterwards metamorphosed into the three kings of Cologne . Mr. Pegge , in his Anecdotes of the English language , p . 291 , informs us that a friend had seen a ...
... queen of Sheba was as well adapted to a sign as the wise men of the East , afterwards metamorphosed into the three kings of Cologne . Mr. Pegge , in his Anecdotes of the English language , p . 291 , informs us that a friend had seen a ...
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Page xvii - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 185 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Page 423 - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: 22 For thou shall heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.
Page 12 - Hence, bashful cunning ! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no.
Page 258 - I'll read you matter deep and dangerous ; As full of peril and adventurous spirit As to o'er-walk a current roaring loud On the unsteadfast footing of a spear.
Page xvii - All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes,) reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.
Page 122 - That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide : And we fairies, that do run By the triple Hecate's team...
Page 229 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty! make thick...
Page 380 - Those rich-left heirs that let their fathers lie Without a monument, bring thee all this ; Yea, and furr'd moss besides, when flowers are none, To winter-ground thy corse.
Page 264 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward.