The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers,: And Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. : To which is Prefixed An Essay on Elocution |
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... Iago . ibid . 383 XXVIII . Hamlet's Soliloquy on his Mother's Marriage . ibid . 389 XXIX . Hamlet and Ghost . ibid . · 390 XXX . Hamlet's Soliloquy on Death . ibid . 394 XXXI . Soliloquy of the King in Hamlet . ibid . 395 XXXII . Ode on ...
... Iago . ibid . 383 XXVIII . Hamlet's Soliloquy on his Mother's Marriage . ibid . 389 XXIX . Hamlet and Ghost . ibid . · 390 XXX . Hamlet's Soliloquy on Death . ibid . 394 XXXI . Soliloquy of the King in Hamlet . ibid . 395 XXXII . Ode on ...
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... Iago in Spain . WHEN the mourner got thus far in his story , he stopp'd to pay nature her tribute - and wept bitterly . He said Heaven had accepted the conditions ; and that he had fet out from his cottage with this poor creature , who ...
... Iago in Spain . WHEN the mourner got thus far in his story , he stopp'd to pay nature her tribute - and wept bitterly . He said Heaven had accepted the conditions ; and that he had fet out from his cottage with this poor creature , who ...
Page 383
... IAGO . ΜΥ OтH . What doft thou fay , Iago ? IAGO . Did Michael Caffio , when you woo'd my Lady , Know of your love ? Oтн . He did , from firft to laft : why doft thou afk ? IAGO . But for a fatisfaction of my thought , No farther harm ...
... IAGO . ΜΥ OтH . What doft thou fay , Iago ? IAGO . Did Michael Caffio , when you woo'd my Lady , Know of your love ? Oтн . He did , from firft to laft : why doft thou afk ? IAGO . But for a fatisfaction of my thought , No farther harm ...
Page 384
... IAGO . I did not think he'd been acquainted with it . Отн . Oh , yes , and went between us very oft . IAGO . Indeed ! OTн . Indeed ! ay , indeed . Discern'ft thou aught in that ? Is he not honest ? IAGO . Honeft , my Lord ? Oтн . Honeft ...
... IAGO . I did not think he'd been acquainted with it . Отн . Oh , yes , and went between us very oft . IAGO . Indeed ! OTн . Indeed ! ay , indeed . Discern'ft thou aught in that ? Is he not honest ? IAGO . Honeft , my Lord ? Oтн . Honeft ...
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... IAGO . For Michael Caffio , I dare be fworn , I think , that he is honeft . OTH . I think fo too . IAGO . Men fhould be what they feem ; Or , those that be not , would they might seem knaves . OTH . Certain ! men fhould be what they ...
... IAGO . For Michael Caffio , I dare be fworn , I think , that he is honeft . OTH . I think fo too . IAGO . Men fhould be what they feem ; Or , those that be not , would they might seem knaves . OTH . Certain ! men fhould be what they ...
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