The Family Shakspeare ... in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text: But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, 1825 |
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... dear in my regard . I take it , your own business calls on you , And you embrace the occasion to depart . Salar . Good morrow , my good lords . Bass . Good signiors both , when shall we laugh ? Say , when ? You grow exceeding strange ...
... dear in my regard . I take it , your own business calls on you , And you embrace the occasion to depart . Salar . Good morrow , my good lords . Bass . Good signiors both , when shall we laugh ? Say , when ? You grow exceeding strange ...
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... dear lady , Rating myself at nothing , you shall see How much I was a braggart : When I told you My state was nothing , I should then have told you That I was worse than nothing ; for , indeed , I have engag'd myself to a dear friend ...
... dear lady , Rating myself at nothing , you shall see How much I was a braggart : When I told you My state was nothing , I should then have told you That I was worse than nothing ; for , indeed , I have engag'd myself to a dear friend ...
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... dear friend , that is thus in trouble ? Bass . The dearest friend to me , the kindest man , The best condition'd and unweary spirit In doing courtesies ; and one in whom The ancient Roman honour more appears , Than any that draws breath ...
... dear friend , that is thus in trouble ? Bass . The dearest friend to me , the kindest man , The best condition'd and unweary spirit In doing courtesies ; and one in whom The ancient Roman honour more appears , Than any that draws breath ...
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... dear bought , I will love you dear.- But let me hear the letter of your friend . Bass . [ Reads . ] Sweet Bassanio , my ships have all miscarried , my creditors grow cruel , my estate is very low , my bond to the Jew is forfeited ; and ...
... dear bought , I will love you dear.- But let me hear the letter of your friend . Bass . [ Reads . ] Sweet Bassanio , my ships have all miscarried , my creditors grow cruel , my estate is very low , my bond to the Jew is forfeited ; and ...
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... dear a lover of lord your husband , I know , you would be prouder of the work , Than customary bounty can enforce you . Por . I never did repent for doing good , Nor shall not now : for in companions That do converse and waste the time ...
... dear a lover of lord your husband , I know , you would be prouder of the work , Than customary bounty can enforce you . Por . I never did repent for doing good , Nor shall not now : for in companions That do converse and waste the time ...
Common terms and phrases
Antonio art thou Baptista Bass Bassanio BERTRAM better Bian Bianca Bion BIONDELLO brother comes Count daughter doth ducats Duke F Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair Farewell father fool Forest of Arden fortune Ganymede gentle gentleman give Gratiano Grumio hath hear heart heaven hither honour Hortensio husband Jaques Jessica Kate Kath KATHARINA King knave lady LAFEU Laun Launcelot look lord Lorenzo lov'd Lucentio madam maid marry master mistress musick Narbon Nerissa never Orlando Padua Parolles Petruchio Phebe Pisa Portia pr'ythee pray ring Rosalind Rousillon Salan Salar SCENE Servant Shylock Signior Sirrah speak swear sweet tell thank thee There's thine thing thou art thou hast Touch Tranio unto Venice Vincentio What's wife withal word young youth
Popular passages
Page 9 - 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 be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 74 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins; Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we...
Page 120 - With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound.
Page 116 - twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour, we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale.
Page 6 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 75 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils : The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Page 103 - 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 64 - 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.
Page 40 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? revenge ; If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Page 69 - So please my lord the duke, and all the court, To quit the fine for one half of his goods; I am content, so he will let me have The other half in use...