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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 : It is no mean happiness ...
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 : It is no mean happiness ...
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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 : It is no mean happiness ...
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 : It is no mean happiness ...
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Most beautiful pagan , most sweet Jew ! If a Christian do not play the knave , and get thee , I am much deceived : But , adieu ! these foolish drops do somewhat drown my manly spirit ; adieu ! [ Exit . Jes . Farewell , good Launcelot .
Most beautiful pagan , most sweet Jew ! If a Christian do not play the knave , and get thee , I am much deceived : But , adieu ! these foolish drops do somewhat drown my manly spirit ; adieu ! [ Exit . Jes . Farewell , good Launcelot .
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Salar . Here comes Lorenzo ; more of this hereafter . Lor . Sweet friends , your patience for my long abode ; Not I , but my affairs , have made you wait ; When you shall please to play the thieves for wives , I'll watch as ...
Salar . Here comes Lorenzo ; more of this hereafter . Lor . Sweet friends , your patience for my long abode ; Not I , but my affairs , have made you wait ; When you shall please to play the thieves for wives , I'll watch as ...
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So are you , sweet , Even in the lovely garnish of a boy . But come at once ; For the close night doth play the run - away , And we are staid for at Bassanio's feast . Jes . I will make fast the doors , and join you straight .
So are you , sweet , Even in the lovely garnish of a boy . But come at once ; For the close night doth play the run - away , And we are staid for at Bassanio's feast . Jes . I will make fast the doors , and join you straight .
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Page 7 - 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 72 - 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 118 - 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 114 - 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 73 - 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 101 - 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 62 - 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 38 - 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 67 - 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...
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| Title | 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 ... Volume 3 of 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, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, 1825 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 11 Apr 2006 |
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