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... play ; the one , published by Thomas Fisher , a book- seller ; the other by James Roberts , a printer . The dif- ferences between these two editions are very slight . It is perfectly clear that the original of these editions , which ...
... play ; the one , published by Thomas Fisher , a book- seller ; the other by James Roberts , a printer . The dif- ferences between these two editions are very slight . It is perfectly clear that the original of these editions , which ...
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... play the lion too ; " or whether he sings alone , " that they shall hear I am not afraid ; " . or whether , conscious that he is surrounded with spirits , he cries out , with his voice of authority , " Where ' s Peas - blossom ? " In ...
... play the lion too ; " or whether he sings alone , " that they shall hear I am not afraid ; " . or whether , conscious that he is surrounded with spirits , he cries out , with his voice of authority , " Where ' s Peas - blossom ? " In ...
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... play in his own mind , and worked upon it as a dream throughout . " The poet says so , in express words : -- " If we shadows have offended , Think but this ( and all is mended ) , That you have but slumber'd here , While these visions ...
... play in his own mind , and worked upon it as a dream throughout . " The poet says so , in express words : -- " If we shadows have offended , Think but this ( and all is mended ) , That you have but slumber'd here , While these visions ...
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... plays of Shakspere may be assisted by connecting the appa- rently separate parts of the action , and by developing and reconciling what seems obscure and anomalous in the features of the characters . But to follow out the caprices and ...
... plays of Shakspere may be assisted by connecting the appa- rently separate parts of the action , and by developing and reconciling what seems obscure and anomalous in the features of the characters . But to follow out the caprices and ...
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... play treats on ; then read the names of the actors ; and so grow on to a point . Quin . Marry , our play is - The most lamentable comedy , and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby . Bot . A very good piece of work , I assure you , and ...
... play treats on ; then read the names of the actors ; and so grow on to a point . Quin . Marry , our play is - The most lamentable comedy , and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby . Bot . A very good piece of work , I assure you , and ...
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Page 198 - Shylock, we would have moneys : ' you say so ; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold : moneys is your suit. What should I say to you ? Should I not say ' Hath a dog money ? is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats...
Page 195 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! 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 230 - Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn ; Happiest of all, is, that her gentle spirit VOL. II. U Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Page 174 - s froward, peevish, sullen, sour, And not obedient to his honest will, What is she but a foul contending rebel And graceless traitor to her loving lord ? — I am asham'd, that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace ; Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway, When they are bound to serve, love, and obey.
Page 77 - Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the scritch-owl, scritching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud.
Page 261 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Page 26 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Page 254 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that: You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 186 - Andrew dock'd in sand Vailing her high-top lower than her ribs To kiss her burial. Should I go to church And see the holy edifice of stone, And not bethink me straight of dangerous rocks, Which touching but my gentle vessel's side Would scatter all her spices on the stream, Enrobe the roaring waters with my silks; And, in a word, but even now worth this, And now worth nothing?
Page 191 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.