The Beauties of Shakespear: Regularly Selected from Each Play. With a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper Heads. Illustrated with Explanatory Notes, and Similar Passages, from Ancient and Modern Authors. By William Dodd, ... In Three Volumes |
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... Your wife is like to reap a proper man . All is semblative a woman's part ,
means , says J. , thy proper part in a play would be a woman's . - Women were
then personated by boys . And fing them loud even in the dead of night Twelfth
Night .
... Your wife is like to reap a proper man . All is semblative a woman's part ,
means , says J. , thy proper part in a play would be a woman's . - Women were
then personated by boys . And fing them loud even in the dead of night Twelfth
Night .
Page 137
not His faults in him scem , as the spots of heav'n , More fiery by night's blackness
; hereditary , Rather than purchas'd ; ( 11 ) what he cannot change , Than what he
chooses . Caf . You are too indulgent . Let us grant , it is Amiss to tumble on ...
not His faults in him scem , as the spots of heav'n , More fiery by night's blackness
; hereditary , Rather than purchas'd ; ( 11 ) what he cannot change , Than what he
chooses . Caf . You are too indulgent . Let us grant , it is Amiss to tumble on ...
Page 204
Dire earthquakes rent the folid Aips below And from their summits Thook th'
eternal snow : Pale fpe & res in the close of night were seen , And voices heard of
more than mortal men , In filent groves dumb sheep and oxen spoke , And
streams ...
Dire earthquakes rent the folid Aips below And from their summits Thook th'
eternal snow : Pale fpe & res in the close of night were seen , And voices heard of
more than mortal men , In filent groves dumb sheep and oxen spoke , And
streams ...
Page 205
Some say , that ever ' gainst that season comes , Wherein our Saviour's birth is
celebrated , This bird of dawning fingeth all night long : And then , they fay , no
fpirit walks abroad , The nights are wholesome , then no planets strike , ( 2 ) No
No ...
Some say , that ever ' gainst that season comes , Wherein our Saviour's birth is
celebrated , This bird of dawning fingeth all night long : And then , they fay , no
fpirit walks abroad , The nights are wholesome , then no planets strike , ( 2 ) No
No ...
Page 241
Good - night , but go not to my uncle's bed ; Affume'a virtue if you have it not . That
monster custom , who all sense doth eat Of habits evil , is angel yet in this , That
to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery , That aptly ...
Good - night , but go not to my uncle's bed ; Affume'a virtue if you have it not . That
monster custom , who all sense doth eat Of habits evil , is angel yet in this , That
to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery , That aptly ...
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Page 212 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Page 205 - And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and at his warning. Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
Page 217 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres...
Page 209 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth ! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 233 - No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.
Page 72 - element,' but the word is over-worn. \Exit. Vio. This fellow is wise enough to play the fool ; And to do that well craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye.
Page 60 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ! it had a dying fall : O ! it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.
Page 226 - That he should weep for her/ What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have/ He would drown the stage with tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Page 36 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Page 236 - Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults To give in evidence. What then? what rests? Try what repentance can: what can it not? Yet what can it, when one can not repent? O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul, that struggling to be free Art more engaged! Help, angels! make assay; Bow, stubborn knees; and heart with strings of steel Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All may be well.