Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1847 |
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... Claud . Benedick , didst thou note the daughter of signior Leonato ? Bene . I noted her not ; but I looked on her . Claud . Is she not a modest young lady ? Bene . Do you question me , as an honest man should do , for my simple true ...
... Claud . Benedick , didst thou note the daughter of signior Leonato ? Bene . I noted her not ; but I looked on her . Claud . Is she not a modest young lady ? Bene . Do you question me , as an honest man should do , for my simple true ...
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... Claud . If this should ever happen , thou would'st be horn - mad . D. Pedro . Nay , if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice , thou wilt quake for this shortly . Bene . I look for an earthquake too , then . D. Pedro . Well , you ...
... Claud . If this should ever happen , thou would'st be horn - mad . D. Pedro . Nay , if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice , thou wilt quake for this shortly . Bene . I look for an earthquake too , then . D. Pedro . Well , you ...
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... Claud . How sweetly do you minister to love , That know love's grief by his complexion ! But lest my liking might too sudden seem , I would have salv'd it with a longer treatise . D. Pedro . What need the bridge much broader than the ...
... Claud . How sweetly do you minister to love , That know love's grief by his complexion ! But lest my liking might too sudden seem , I would have salv'd it with a longer treatise . D. Pedro . What need the bridge much broader than the ...
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... Claud . You know me well : I am he . John . Signior , you are very near my brother in his love : he is enamoured on Hero . I pray you , dissuade him from her ; she is no equal for his birth : you may do the part of an honest man in it .
... Claud . You know me well : I am he . John . Signior , you are very near my brother in his love : he is enamoured on Hero . I pray you , dissuade him from her ; she is no equal for his birth : you may do the part of an honest man in it .
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... Claud . Yea , the same . Bene . Come , will you go with me ? Claud . Whither ? Bene . O ! she misused me past the endurance of a block : an oak , but with one green leaf on it , would have answered her : my very visor began to assume ...
... Claud . Yea , the same . Bene . Come , will you go with me ? Claud . Whither ? Bene . O ! she misused me past the endurance of a block : an oak , but with one green leaf on it , would have answered her : my very visor began to assume ...
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 3 John Payne Collier,Charles Knight No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 25 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet...
Page 38 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!
Page 32 - Have waked their sleepers ; oped, and let them forth By my so potent art. But this rough magic I here abjure ; and, when I have requir'd Some heavenly music, (which even now I do) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Page 45 - Will in that station, was the faint, general, and almost lost ideas, he had of having once seen him act a part in one of his own comedies, wherein being to personate a decrepit old man, he wore a long beard, and appeared so weak and drooping and unable to walk, that he was forced to be supported and carried by another person to a table, at which he was seated among some company who were eating, and one of them sung a song.