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... Prince Charles , the Lady Elizabeth , and the Prince Palatine Elector , in 1613 : " Paid to John Heminges uppon the councels warrt . dated at Whitehall , xx ° die Maii 1613 , for presentinge before the Princes Hignes , the La ...
... Prince Charles , the Lady Elizabeth , and the Prince Palatine Elector , in 1613 : " Paid to John Heminges uppon the councels warrt . dated at Whitehall , xx ° die Maii 1613 , for presentinge before the Princes Hignes , the La ...
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... prince's court contained the only theatre of the domain or principality . This sort of story , too , was admirably suited to Shakspeare's times , when the English court was still the foster- mother of the state and the muses ; and when ...
... prince's court contained the only theatre of the domain or principality . This sort of story , too , was admirably suited to Shakspeare's times , when the English court was still the foster- mother of the state and the muses ; and when ...
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... Prince be too important , tell him there is measure in everything , " & c . So in " King Lear , " Act IV . Sc . 4 ... prince's word , When thou didst make him master of thy bed , To do him all the grace and good I could . Go , some of ...
... Prince be too important , tell him there is measure in everything , " & c . So in " King Lear , " Act IV . Sc . 4 ... prince's word , When thou didst make him master of thy bed , To do him all the grace and good I could . Go , some of ...
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... Prince of VERONA . PARIS , a young Nobleman , kinsman to the Prince . MONTAGUE , heads of two Houses , at variance with CAPULET , each other . An old Man , uncle to CAPUlet . ROMEO , son to MONTAGUE . MERCUTIO , kinsman to the Prince ...
... Prince of VERONA . PARIS , a young Nobleman , kinsman to the Prince . MONTAGUE , heads of two Houses , at variance with CAPULET , each other . An old Man , uncle to CAPUlet . ROMEO , son to MONTAGUE . MERCUTIO , kinsman to the Prince ...
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... PRINCE , with Attendants . PRIN . Rebellious subjects , enemies to peace , Profaners of this neighbour - stained steel , - Will they not hear ? -what ho ! you men , you beasts , - That quench the fire of your pernicious rage With purple ...
... PRINCE , with Attendants . PRIN . Rebellious subjects , enemies to peace , Profaners of this neighbour - stained steel , - Will they not hear ? -what ho ! you men , you beasts , - That quench the fire of your pernicious rage With purple ...
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Page 372 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen ; man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
Page 415 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 433 - 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...
Page 174 - O, that she knew .she were! — She speaks, yet she says nothing; What of that? Her eye discourses, I will answer it. — I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do intreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
Page 514 - And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off. I'll so offend, to make offence a skill; Redeeming time when men think least I will [Exit.
Page 80 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Page 415 - 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 210 - O my love! my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 596 - With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 555 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? -No. Is it insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it: — therefore, I'll none of it: Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.