The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight]. [8 vols. The vol. containing the biogr. is of the 3rd ed.]. |
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... given , that this comedy was originally printed in the first folio . The text is singularly correct . In the edition of 1623 , the Two Gentlemen of Verona appears the second in the collection of " Comedies . " The Tempest , which it can ...
... given , that this comedy was originally printed in the first folio . The text is singularly correct . In the edition of 1623 , the Two Gentlemen of Verona appears the second in the collection of " Comedies . " The Tempest , which it can ...
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... given , though her verbal alterations are not improvements of the quaint prose of the times of Elizabeth . The writer in Lardner's Cyclopędia , whom we have been already compelled to mention , says , " The Two Gentlemen of Verona ( a ...
... given , though her verbal alterations are not improvements of the quaint prose of the times of Elizabeth . The writer in Lardner's Cyclopędia , whom we have been already compelled to mention , says , " The Two Gentlemen of Verona ( a ...
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... given a false representation of the manners of the persons whom he brings upon his scene . The tone of the Two Gentlemen of Verona is , perhaps , not so thoroughly Italian as some of his later plays the Merchant of Venice , for example ...
... given a false representation of the manners of the persons whom he brings upon his scene . The tone of the Two Gentlemen of Verona is , perhaps , not so thoroughly Italian as some of his later plays the Merchant of Venice , for example ...
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... given in one of the plates of Vecellio , is not unlike the beretta of the Doge of Venice ; and caps very similar in form and material are still worn in the neighbourhood of Linz in Upper Austria . The Milan bonnet was also worn by ...
... given in one of the plates of Vecellio , is not unlike the beretta of the Doge of Venice ; and caps very similar in form and material are still worn in the neighbourhood of Linz in Upper Austria . The Milan bonnet was also worn by ...
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... given the name to the mechanical help which the ritual of the early church associated with the act of praying . To drop a ball down a string at every prayer , whether enjoined by the priest or by voluntary obligation , has been the ...
... given the name to the mechanical help which the ritual of the early church associated with the act of praying . To drop a ball down a string at every prayer , whether enjoined by the priest or by voluntary obligation , has been the ...
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Popular passages
Page 424 - Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 280 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 424 - If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? revenge : If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute ; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Page 220 - His youthful hose well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing.