Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. OthelloCharles Whittingham, 1826 |
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... phrase for an heiress . Earth is likewise put for lands , i . e . landed estate , in other old plays . But Mason suggests that earth may here mean corporal part , as in a future passage of this play : - ' Can I go forward when my heart ...
... phrase for an heiress . Earth is likewise put for lands , i . e . landed estate , in other old plays . But Mason suggests that earth may here mean corporal part , as in a future passage of this play : - ' Can I go forward when my heart ...
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... phrase for a married woman , femme couverte . 11 Dr. Farmer explains this , ' The fish is not yet caught . ' Ma- son thinks that we should read , ' The fish lives in the shell ; for the sea cannot be said to be a beautiful cover to a ...
... phrase for a married woman , femme couverte . 11 Dr. Farmer explains this , ' The fish is not yet caught . ' Ma- son thinks that we should read , ' The fish lives in the shell ; for the sea cannot be said to be a beautiful cover to a ...
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... phrase , — I'll be a candle - holder , and look on , - The game was ne'er so fair , and I am done 9 . Mer . Tut ! dun's the mouse , the constable's own word : If thou art dun , we'll draw thee from the mire 10 7 To quote is to note , to ...
... phrase , — I'll be a candle - holder , and look on , - The game was ne'er so fair , and I am done 9 . Mer . Tut ! dun's the mouse , the constable's own word : If thou art dun , we'll draw thee from the mire 10 7 To quote is to note , to ...
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... phrase , which was applied to superfluous actions in general , occurs again in The Merry Wives of Wind- See vol . i . p . 208 . sor . · 12 The quarto of 1597 reads , Three times a day ; ' and right wits instead of five wits . Mer . O ...
... phrase , which was applied to superfluous actions in general , occurs again in The Merry Wives of Wind- See vol . i . p . 208 . sor . · 12 The quarto of 1597 reads , Three times a day ; ' and right wits instead of five wits . Mer . O ...
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... phrase . 6 The ancient tables were flat leaves or boards joined by hinges and placed on tressels ; when they were to be removed they were therefore turned up . The phrase is sometimes taken up . Thus in Cavendish's Life of Wolsey , ed ...
... phrase . 6 The ancient tables were flat leaves or boards joined by hinges and placed on tressels ; when they were to be removed they were therefore turned up . The phrase is sometimes taken up . Thus in Cavendish's Life of Wolsey , ed ...
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¹¹ ancient Benvolio Brabantio CAPULET Cassio Cyprus dead dear death Desdemona devil dost doth Emil EMILIA Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair Farewell father fear folio reads friar gentlemen Gentlemen of Verona Ghost give grief Guil Guildenstern Hamlet hath hear heart heaven honest Horatio i'the Iago Juliet Julius Cæsar King Lear lady Laer Laertes look lord Love's Labour's Lost Madam madness Malone married means Measure for Measure Mercutio Michael Cassio mother murder never night Nurse o'er old copies Ophelia Othello passage play players poet POLONIUS pray quarto of 1603 quarto reads Queen Rape of Lucrece Roderigo Romeo ROSENCRANTZ scene Shakspeare Shakspeare's soul speak speech Steevens sweet sword tell thee There's thing thou art thou hast thought to-night Tybalt villain word
Popular passages
Page 245 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Page 288 - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say ' This thing's to do ; ' Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Page 50 - But to be frank, and give it thee again. And yet I wish but for the thing I have: My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Page 245 - O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: Pray you, avoid it.
Page 170 - Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, modes, shows of grief, That can denote me truly: These, indeed, seem, For they are actions that a man might play : But I have that within, which passeth show; These, but the trappings and the suits of woe.
Page 248 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 243 - Nor do not sa.w the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Page 322 - Alas ! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio ; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy ; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.
Page 447 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Page 339 - What I have done That might your nature, honour, and exception Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness. Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes? Never Hamlet: If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away, And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes, Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it. Who does it, then? His madness: if 't be so, Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd; His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy.