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... less deserve the meed of Fame , Whose pious hand repairs its half lost name , And broken sculpture , which Time's slow decay Hath marr'd , or Vandal hands have torn away.- And such due rites and service as became The Muses ' faithful ...
... less deserve the meed of Fame , Whose pious hand repairs its half lost name , And broken sculpture , which Time's slow decay Hath marr'd , or Vandal hands have torn away.- And such due rites and service as became The Muses ' faithful ...
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... less so in public repositories . Wherever the reading of the folio is departed from , the folio text is given in its place on the margin ; but unless any thing turns upon the old spelling , in which case it is retained in the text , the ...
... less so in public repositories . Wherever the reading of the folio is departed from , the folio text is given in its place on the margin ; but unless any thing turns upon the old spelling , in which case it is retained in the text , the ...
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... less than eight or nine years from his previous computation . Now if upon such grounds and so unsettled a state of things , editors not even agreeing with themselves , the order , in which these dramas are presented to the public , is ...
... less than eight or nine years from his previous computation . Now if upon such grounds and so unsettled a state of things , editors not even agreeing with themselves , the order , in which these dramas are presented to the public , is ...
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... virtues fill up those its hours , that are wholly at your command ! " e But now , my cousin Hamlet , and my son ] See " Capulet . " Rom . & Jul . I. 5. Cap . my cousin HAM . A little more than kin , and less 14 ACT I. HAMLET ,
... virtues fill up those its hours , that are wholly at your command ! " e But now , my cousin Hamlet , and my son ] See " Capulet . " Rom . & Jul . I. 5. Cap . my cousin HAM . A little more than kin , and less 14 ACT I. HAMLET ,
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... less than kind . ( 39 ) [ Aside . KING . How is it that the clouds still hang on you ? HAM . Not so , my lord , I am too much i'the sun . ( 40 ) QUEEN . Good Hamlet , cast thy nightly coloura nighted . off , And let thine eye look like ...
... less than kind . ( 39 ) [ Aside . KING . How is it that the clouds still hang on you ? HAM . Not so , my lord , I am too much i'the sun . ( 40 ) QUEEN . Good Hamlet , cast thy nightly coloura nighted . off , And let thine eye look like ...
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Page 86 - Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will. My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Page 65 - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry : be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Page 24 - Take that ; and He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age ! Here is the gold : All this I give you. Let me be your servant : Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty ; For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood ; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility : Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly.
Page 39 - My liege, and madam, — to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief...
Page 26 - If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not; Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest.
Page 34 - Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors, he comes before me.
Page 23 - Ham. Alas, poor ghost ! Ghost. Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing To what I shall unfold. Ham. Speak ; I am bound to hear.
Page 34 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more '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 73 - But these are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Page 8 - Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth ! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman! A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she follow'd my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason...