Select Plays: The TempestClarendon Press, 1880 - 156 pages |
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... heavens ! Mir . What foul play had we , that we came from thence ? Or blessed was ' t we did ? Pros . Both , both , my girl : By foul play , as thou say'st , were we heaved thence , But blessedly holp hither . Mir . O , my heart bleeds ...
... heavens ! Mir . What foul play had we , that we came from thence ? Or blessed was ' t we did ? Pros . Both , both , my girl : By foul play , as thou say'st , were we heaved thence , But blessedly holp hither . Mir . O , my heart bleeds ...
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... heavens ! ΙΙΟ Pros . Mark his condition and the event ; then tell me If this might be a brother . I should sin Mir . To think but nobly of my grandmother : Good wombs have borne bad sons . Pros . Now the condition . 121 This King of ...
... heavens ! ΙΙΟ Pros . Mark his condition and the event ; then tell me If this might be a brother . I should sin Mir . To think but nobly of my grandmother : Good wombs have borne bad sons . Pros . Now the condition . 121 This King of ...
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... heaven , When I have deck'd the sea with drops full salt , Under my burthen groan'd ; which raised in me An undergoing stomach , to bear up Against what should ensue . Mir . 141 150 How came we ashore ? 160 Pros . By Providence divine ...
... heaven , When I have deck'd the sea with drops full salt , Under my burthen groan'd ; which raised in me An undergoing stomach , to bear up Against what should ensue . Mir . 141 150 How came we ashore ? 160 Pros . By Providence divine ...
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... Heavens thank you for ' t ! And now , I pray you , sir , For still ' tis beating in my mind , your reason For raising this sea - storm ? Pros . Know thus far forth . By accident most strange , bountiful Fortune , Now my dear lady , hath ...
... Heavens thank you for ' t ! And now , I pray you , sir , For still ' tis beating in my mind , your reason For raising this sea - storm ? Pros . Know thus far forth . By accident most strange , bountiful Fortune , Now my dear lady , hath ...
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... heavens ! I am the best of them that speak this speech , Were I but where ' tis spoken . Pros . How ? the best ? What wert thou , if the King of Naples heard thee ? Fer . A single thing , as I am now , that wonders To hear thee speak of ...
... heavens ! I am the best of them that speak this speech , Were I but where ' tis spoken . Pros . How ? the best ? What wert thou , if the King of Naples heard thee ? Fer . A single thing , as I am now , that wonders To hear thee speak of ...
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Page 60 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms...
Page 86 - Know thus far forth. — By accident most strange, bountiful fortune, Now my dear lady,, hath mine enemies Brought to this shore : and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star ; whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
Page 26 - V the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things : for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate : Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none ; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil ; No occupation : all men idle, all ; And women too, but innocent and pure; 150 No sovereignty ; — Seb.
Page 117 - The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place ? Take but degree away, untune that string...
Page 16 - em. Cal. I must eat my dinner. This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, Which thou tak'st from me. When thou cam'st first, Thou stroked'st me, and made much of me ; wouldst give me Water with berries in't ; and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night. And then I loved thee, And show'd thee all the qualities o...
Page 60 - I here abjure, and, when I have required Some heavenly music, which even now I do, To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book.
Page 121 - Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her? Holy, fair, and wise is she, The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be. Is she kind as she is fair? For beauty lives with kindness: Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness ; And, being help'd, inhabits there.
Page 59 - gainst my fury Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further : Go, release them, Ariel ; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, And they shall be themselves.
Page 27 - All things in common, nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 60 - I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war...