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I cannot come to Cresjid , but by Pandar ; And he's as teachy to be woo'd to wooe , As she is stubborn - chast against all sute . Tell me , Apollo , for thy Daphne's love , What Cressid is , what Pandar , and what we : Her bed is India ...
I cannot come to Cresjid , but by Pandar ; And he's as teachy to be woo'd to wooe , As she is stubborn - chast against all sute . Tell me , Apollo , for thy Daphne's love , What Cressid is , what Pandar , and what we : Her bed is India ...
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He is melancholy without cause , and merry against the hair ; he hath the joints of every thing , but every thing so out of joint , that he is a gouty Briareus , many hands and no use ; or purblind Argus , all eyes and no sight . Cre .
He is melancholy without cause , and merry against the hair ; he hath the joints of every thing , but every thing so out of joint , that he is a gouty Briareus , many hands and no use ; or purblind Argus , all eyes and no sight . Cre .
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... ( the Subject of which is the Invasion of Thebes by Polynices and the Argives ) makes Tirefas talk of his giving the Victory to Athens against Eumolpus ; tho Eumolpus's War against Erechtheus was no less than four Generatiens elder ...
... ( the Subject of which is the Invasion of Thebes by Polynices and the Argives ) makes Tirefas talk of his giving the Victory to Athens against Eumolpus ; tho Eumolpus's War against Erechtheus was no less than four Generatiens elder ...
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Pandarus , seeing Troilus kiss with Fervour , and Cressida meet his Kisses with equal Zeal , means , that he'll match his Neice against her Lover for any Bett . The Tercel is the male Hawk ; by the Faulcon , we generally understand the ...
Pandarus , seeing Troilus kiss with Fervour , and Cressida meet his Kisses with equal Zeal , means , that he'll match his Neice against her Lover for any Bett . The Tercel is the male Hawk ; by the Faulcon , we generally understand the ...
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I own , I have a Suspicion , our Poet had Virgil in his Eye ; and meant to copy that fine Praise which Diomede pays to Æneas's Valour , where Ve nulus comes from the Latines to follicit Diomede's Aid against Æneas .
I own , I have a Suspicion , our Poet had Virgil in his Eye ; and meant to copy that fine Praise which Diomede pays to Æneas's Valour , where Ve nulus comes from the Latines to follicit Diomede's Aid against Æneas .
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Page 70 - Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery.
Page 279 - Tears in his eyes, distraction in 's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing! For Hecuba! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her!
Page 249 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres...
Page 290 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 325 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 168 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die ! like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume.
Page 441 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Page 245 - The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels ; And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out The triumph of his pledge.
Page 152 - What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for thy. name, which is no part of thee, Take all myself.
Page 272 - In form and moving how express and admirable ! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me, — no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
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| Title | The Works of Shakespeare in Seven Volumes, Volume 7 The Works of Shakespeare in Seven Volumes, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Mr. Theobald (Lewis) |
| Publisher | A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, 1733 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 13 Jul 2007 |
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