The Family Shakspeare: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family, Volume 3; Volume 70Longman's Greeen, 1872 - 506 pages |
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... better , I must become a borrower of the night , For a dark hour or twain . Macbeth . Fail not our feast . Banquo . My lord , I will not . Macbeth . We hear , our bloody cousins are bestow'a In England , and in Ireland ; not confessing ...
... better , I must become a borrower of the night , For a dark hour or twain . Macbeth . Fail not our feast . Banquo . My lord , I will not . Macbeth . We hear , our bloody cousins are bestow'a In England , and in Ireland ; not confessing ...
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... Better be with the dead , Whom we , to gain our place , have sent to peace , Than on the torture of the mind to lie 7 In restless ecstasy . Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever , he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst ...
... Better be with the dead , Whom we , to gain our place , have sent to peace , Than on the torture of the mind to lie 7 In restless ecstasy . Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever , he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst ...
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... better thee without , than he within . Is he despatch'd ? Murderer . My lord , his throat is cut ; that I did for him . Macbeth . Thou art the best o ' the cut - throats : Yet he's good , That did the like for Fleance : if thou didst it ...
... better thee without , than he within . Is he despatch'd ? Murderer . My lord , his throat is cut ; that I did for him . Macbeth . Thou art the best o ' the cut - throats : Yet he's good , That did the like for Fleance : if thou didst it ...
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... better health Attend his majesty ! Lady Macbeth . A kind good night to all ! [ Exeunt LORDS and ATTENDANTS . Macbeth . It will have blood ; they say , blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move , and trees to speak ; Augurs ...
... better health Attend his majesty ! Lady Macbeth . A kind good night to all ! [ Exeunt LORDS and ATTENDANTS . Macbeth . It will have blood ; they say , blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move , and trees to speak ; Augurs ...
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... Better Macbeth Than such a one to reign . Macduff . Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny ; it hath been The untimely emptying of the happy throne , And fall of many kings . But fear not yet To take upon you what is yours : you ...
... Better Macbeth Than such a one to reign . Macduff . Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny ; it hath been The untimely emptying of the happy throne , And fall of many kings . But fear not yet To take upon you what is yours : you ...
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Page 480 - This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered ; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition : And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's...
Page 16 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all — here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come.
Page 321 - 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.
Page 355 - Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly? coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar; telling us she had a good dish of prawns; whereby thou didst desire to eat some, whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound?
Page 419 - O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire Crouch for employment.
Page 153 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 365 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — O Sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down...
Page 254 - Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd, Fresh as a bridegroom ; and his chin, new reap'd, Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home; He was perfumed like a milliner ; And "twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took't away again ; Who, therewith angry, when it...
Page 41 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with ! Lady M.
Page 17 - He's here in double trust ; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed : then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.