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What say you then to Faulconbridge , the young baron of England ? Por . You know , I say nothing to him ; for he understands not me , nor I him : he hath neither Latin , French , nor Italian ; and you will come into the court and swear ...
What say you then to Faulconbridge , the young baron of England ? Por . You know , I say nothing to him ; for he understands not me , nor I him : he hath neither Latin , French , nor Italian ; and you will come into the court and swear ...
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How like you the young German , the duke of Saxony's nephew ? Por . Very vilely in the morning , when he is sober ; and most vilely in the afternoon , when he is drunk : when he is best , he is little worse than a man ; and when he is ...
How like you the young German , the duke of Saxony's nephew ? Por . Very vilely in the morning , when he is sober ; and most vilely in the afternoon , when he is drunk : when he is best , he is little worse than a man ; and when he is ...
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... and a Persian prince , That won three fields of Sultan Solyman , I would out - stare the sternest eyes that look , Out - brave the heart most daring on the earth , Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she bear , Yea , mock the lion ...
... and a Persian prince , That won three fields of Sultan Solyman , I would out - stare the sternest eyes that look , Out - brave the heart most daring on the earth , Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she bear , Yea , mock the lion ...
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Master , young man , you , I pray you ; which is the way to master Jew's ? Laun . [ Aside . ] O heavens , this is my true - begotten father ! who , being more than sand - blind , high - gravel blind , knows me not : - I will try ...
Master , young man , you , I pray you ; which is the way to master Jew's ? Laun . [ Aside . ] O heavens , this is my true - begotten father ! who , being more than sand - blind , high - gravel blind , knows me not : - I will try ...
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Alack the day , I know you not , young gentleman ; but I pray you , tell me , is my boy alive or dead ? : Laun . Do you not know me , father ? Gob . Alack , sir , I am sand - blind , I know you not . Laun .
Alack the day , I know you not , young gentleman ; but I pray you , tell me , is my boy alive or dead ? : Laun . Do you not know me , father ? Gob . Alack , sir , I am sand - blind , I know you not . Laun .
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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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