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... meanings of words and refers to act , scene and line , but usually does not quote the context ; whereas Mrs. Clarke simply collects all instances of each word , without classification , even mingling parts of speech , and refers merely ...
... meanings of words and refers to act , scene and line , but usually does not quote the context ; whereas Mrs. Clarke simply collects all instances of each word , without classification , even mingling parts of speech , and refers merely ...
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... out as fully as possible both their melody and their meaning . The poet notably wrote his plays , not for the closet , but for the stage : he had in mind especially how they would sound . We cannot neglect , therefore INTRODUCTION . 7.
... out as fully as possible both their melody and their meaning . The poet notably wrote his plays , not for the closet , but for the stage : he had in mind especially how they would sound . We cannot neglect , therefore INTRODUCTION . 7.
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... meanings ; new forms of inflection ; new applications of mode and tense ; new arrangements of phrase and sentence . To the beginner the poet's diction is a chief perplexity . This trouble must of course be overcome by resolute study ...
... meanings ; new forms of inflection ; new applications of mode and tense ; new arrangements of phrase and sentence . To the beginner the poet's diction is a chief perplexity . This trouble must of course be overcome by resolute study ...
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... meaning very different from what the words would have to - day . What this meaning is you may infer from a comparison of this passage with Henry VI . , Part III . , iv . 4 , 2. — Lines of only two or three accents will often be met with ...
... meaning very different from what the words would have to - day . What this meaning is you may infer from a comparison of this passage with Henry VI . , Part III . , iv . 4 , 2. — Lines of only two or three accents will often be met with ...
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... meaning of the word prevent is derived from the original one , which appears here , as it frequently does in our older literature . See , e . g . , Cæsar , V. , 1 , 105. See the adjective prevenient , Par . Lost , xi . , 3 . 62–64 ...
... meaning of the word prevent is derived from the original one , which appears here , as it frequently does in our older literature . See , e . g . , Cæsar , V. , 1 , 105. See the adjective prevenient , Par . Lost , xi . , 3 . 62–64 ...
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Page 59 - I am a Jew. 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 1 if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Page 65 - The world is still deceiv'd with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Page 20 - You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are : And, yet, for aught I see, they are as sick, that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing...
Page 59 - To bait fish withal : if it will feed nothing else it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me and hindered me of half a million ; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies! and what's his reason? I am a Jew ! Hath not a Jew eyes?
Page 25 - Yes, to smell pork ; to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into.
Page 15 - Let me play the fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come; And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster...
Page 89 - Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much To mitigate the justice of thy plea; Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there. SHY. My deeds upon my head! I crave the law, The penalty and forfeit of my bond.
Page 69 - Myself, and what is mine, to you, and yours Is now converted : but now I was the lord Of this fair mansion, master of my servants, Queen o'er myself; and even now, but now, This house, these servants, and this same myself, Are yours, my lord ; I give them with this ring...
Page 89 - 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 90 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.