King Lear ; Cymbeline ; Titus AndronicusBradbury, Agnew, and Company, 1867 - Drama |
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... head bit off by it young . So , out went the candle , and we were left dark- ling . Lear . Are you our daughter ? Gon . I would you would make use of your good wisdom Whereof I know you are fraught ; and put away These dispositions ...
... head bit off by it young . So , out went the candle , and we were left dark- ling . Lear . Are you our daughter ? Gon . I would you would make use of your good wisdom Whereof I know you are fraught ; and put away These dispositions ...
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... head . And thy dear judgment out ! -Go , go , my people . Alb . My lord , I am guiltless , as I am ignorant Of what hath moved you . Lear . It may be so , my lord , - Hear , Nature , hear ; dear goddess , hear ! Suspend thy purpose , if ...
... head . And thy dear judgment out ! -Go , go , my people . Alb . My lord , I am guiltless , as I am ignorant Of what hath moved you . Lear . It may be so , my lord , - Hear , Nature , hear ; dear goddess , hear ! Suspend thy purpose , if ...
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... No. Fool . Nor I neither ; but I can tell why a snail has a house . Lear . Why ? Fool . Why , to put his head in ; not to give it away to his daughters , and leave his horns with- 34 ACT I. KING LEAR . SCENE V.-Court before the same. ...
... No. Fool . Nor I neither ; but I can tell why a snail has a house . Lear . Why ? Fool . Why , to put his head in ; not to give it away to his daughters , and leave his horns with- 34 ACT I. KING LEAR . SCENE V.-Court before the same. ...
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... heads ; dogs and bears by the neck ; monkeys by the loins ; and men by the legs when a man is over - lusty at legs , then he wears wooden nether - stocks . : Lear . What's he that hath so much thy place 48 ACT II . KING LEAR .
... heads ; dogs and bears by the neck ; monkeys by the loins ; and men by the legs when a man is over - lusty at legs , then he wears wooden nether - stocks . : Lear . What's he that hath so much thy place 48 ACT II . KING LEAR .
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... hurricanes , spout Till you have drench'd our steeples , drown'd the cocks ! You sulphurous and thought - executing fires , Vaunt couriers of oak - cleaving thunder - bolts , Singe my white head ! And thou , all - 62 ACT III . KING LEAR .
... hurricanes , spout Till you have drench'd our steeples , drown'd the cocks ! You sulphurous and thought - executing fires , Vaunt couriers of oak - cleaving thunder - bolts , Singe my white head ! And thou , all - 62 ACT III . KING LEAR .
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Aaron Andronicus art thou ARVIRAGUS Bassianus BELARIUS blood Britons brother Cæsar CHIRON Cloten Cordelia Corn CYMBELINE daughter dead dear death Demet doth duke of Cornwall EDGAR Edmund emperor empress Enter Exeunt Exit eyes father fear Fool friends Gent give Gloster gods GONERIL Goths grace GUIDERIUS hand hath hear heart heaven hither honour Iach IACHIMO Imogen Jupiter Kent king lady Lavinia Lear Leonatus letter live look lord Lucius madam Marc Marcus master mistress night noble nuncle Pisanio poison'd poor Post Posthumus Pr'ythee pray queen Re-enter Regan revenge Roman Rome SATURNINUS SCENE sister sons sorrow speak Stew sweet sword Tamora tears tell thee there's thine thing thou art thou hast thou shalt Titus TITUS ANDRONICUS tongue traitor Tribunes villain
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Page 116 - Come, let's away to prison : We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage : When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness : so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news ; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins ; who's in, who's out ; And take...
Page 68 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd. raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 166 - Phoebus gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chalic'd flowers that lies ; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes : With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet arise ; Arise, arise ! Clo.
Page 6 - Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth : I love your majesty According to my bond ; nor more nor less.
Page 218 - I'll sweeten thy sad grave : thou shall not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Page 129 - The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most : we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.
Page 220 - Fear no more the frown o' the great: Thou art past the tyrant's stroke. Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Page 191 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Page 18 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on...
Page 101 - Lear. Ay, every inch a king : When I do stare, see how the subject quakes. I pardon that man's life. What was thy cause ? Adultery ? Thou...