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... folio , by John Heminge and Henry Condell , in the year 1623 , and the dedication is : To the most noble and incomparable pair of brethren , William , Earl of Pembroke , & c . , lord - chamberlain to the King's most excellent Majesty ...
... folio , by John Heminge and Henry Condell , in the year 1623 , and the dedication is : To the most noble and incomparable pair of brethren , William , Earl of Pembroke , & c . , lord - chamberlain to the King's most excellent Majesty ...
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... folio edition of Shakspere's works , engraved by Martin Droe- shout , sculp . , are the following lines , written by Ben Jonson : - TO THE READER . This figure that thou here see'st put , It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein the ...
... folio edition of Shakspere's works , engraved by Martin Droe- shout , sculp . , are the following lines , written by Ben Jonson : - TO THE READER . This figure that thou here see'st put , It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein the ...
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... folio of 1632 : - What need my Shakspere , for his honor'd bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid , Under a star - y pointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory , great heir of fame , What ...
... folio of 1632 : - What need my Shakspere , for his honor'd bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid , Under a star - y pointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory , great heir of fame , What ...
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... folio . volume of the first edition of Florio's translation of Montaigne , in the British Museum , for which the trustees in the year 1838 gave 100l . April 23 , 1864 . CHAPTER I. CONTAINING PASSAGES IN WHICH PLANTS AND FLOWERS ARE XX ...
... folio . volume of the first edition of Florio's translation of Montaigne , in the British Museum , for which the trustees in the year 1838 gave 100l . April 23 , 1864 . CHAPTER I. CONTAINING PASSAGES IN WHICH PLANTS AND FLOWERS ARE XX ...
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... action dignified . * All the passages are given at length , and mostly according to the folio of 1623 . B Within the infant rind of this small flower Poison hath CHAPTER I PASSAGES IN WHICH PLANTS AND FLOWERS ARE NOTICED GENERALLY.
... action dignified . * All the passages are given at length , and mostly according to the folio of 1623 . B Within the infant rind of this small flower Poison hath CHAPTER I PASSAGES IN WHICH PLANTS AND FLOWERS ARE NOTICED GENERALLY.
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Page 8 - It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster.
Page 4 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners : so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce ; set hyssop, and weed up thyme ; supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many ; either to have it steril with idleness, or manured with industry, — why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 8 - The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon : Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes : The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before their buttons be disclosed ; And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Page 165 - I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it : trifles, light as air, Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
Page 6 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him ; The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost ; And — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 57 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage ; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamel'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he strays With willing sport to the wild ocean.
Page 49 - When summer's breath their masked buds discloses : But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made : And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth.
Page 143 - Come on, sir; here's the place: — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon' tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight: The murmuring surge.
Page xii - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Page 5 - O thou goddess, Thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st In these two princely boys ! They are as gentle As zephyrs, blowing below the violet, Not wagging his sweet head : and yet as rough, Their royal blood enchafed, as the rudest wind, That by the. top doth take the mountain pine And make him stoop to the vale.