Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrewC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... haft not cola thy face enough . STEEVENS . * I have a widow aunt , & c . ] Thefe lines perhaps might more properly be regulated thus : From Athens is her house remote 9 feven leagues , I have 10 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT's DREAM . • ...
... haft not cola thy face enough . STEEVENS . * I have a widow aunt , & c . ] Thefe lines perhaps might more properly be regulated thus : From Athens is her house remote 9 feven leagues , I have 10 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT's DREAM . • ...
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William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. From Athens is her house remote 9 feven leagues , And the refpects me as her only fon . There , gentle Hermia , may I marry thee ; And to that place the fharp Athenian law Cannot ...
William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. From Athens is her house remote 9 feven leagues , And the refpects me as her only fon . There , gentle Hermia , may I marry thee ; And to that place the fharp Athenian law Cannot ...
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... house . I promife you , your kindred hath made my eyes water 6 -the fiery glow - worm's eyes , ] I know not how Shake . fpeare , who commonly derived his knowledge of nature from his own obfervation , happened to place the glow - worm's ...
... house . I promife you , your kindred hath made my eyes water 6 -the fiery glow - worm's eyes , ] I know not how Shake . fpeare , who commonly derived his knowledge of nature from his own obfervation , happened to place the glow - worm's ...
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... extraordinary faid ; -I shall fing it ofter death . He , as Pyramus , is kill'd upon the fcene ; and fo might promife SCENE II . Athens . Quince's house . Enter Quince G 3 to A MIDSUMMER - NIGHT's DREAM . 85 Her. Yea; and my father. ...
... extraordinary faid ; -I shall fing it ofter death . He , as Pyramus , is kill'd upon the fcene ; and fo might promife SCENE II . Athens . Quince's house . Enter Quince G 3 to A MIDSUMMER - NIGHT's DREAM . 85 Her. Yea; and my father. ...
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William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. SCENE II . Athens . Quince's house . Enter Quince , Flute , Snout , and Starveling . Quin . Have you fent to Bottom's house ? is he come home yet ? Star . He cannot be heard of . Out ...
William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. SCENE II . Athens . Quince's house . Enter Quince , Flute , Snout , and Starveling . Quin . Have you fent to Bottom's house ? is he come home yet ? Star . He cannot be heard of . Out ...
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Page 448 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign ; one that cares for thee And for thy maintenance : commits his body To painful labour, both by sea and land...
Page 85 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen ; man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
Page 250 - The seasons' difference; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say,— This is no flattery: these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 104 - Now it is the time of night, That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide.
Page 123 - I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 191 - I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Page 200 - In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea-banks, and waft her love To come again to Carthage.
Page 123 - Christian; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there where merchants most do congregate, On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift, Which he calls interest.
Page 117 - ... palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree: such a hare is madness the youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the cripple.
Page 186 - You may as well go stand upon the beach, And bid the main flood bate his usual height ; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb...