Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1847 |
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... spirit of moving words Can no way change you to a milder form , I'll woo you like a soldier , at arms ' end , And love you ' gainst the nature of love : force you . Sil . O heaven ! Pro . I'll force thee yield to my desire . Enter ...
... spirit of moving words Can no way change you to a milder form , I'll woo you like a soldier , at arms ' end , And love you ' gainst the nature of love : force you . Sil . O heaven ! Pro . I'll force thee yield to my desire . Enter ...
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... spirit , Valentine , And think thee worthy of an empress ' love . Know then , I here forget all former griefs . Cancel all grudge , repeal thee home again , Plead a new state in thy unrivall'd merit , To which I thus subscribe . - Sir ...
... spirit , Valentine , And think thee worthy of an empress ' love . Know then , I here forget all former griefs . Cancel all grudge , repeal thee home again , Plead a new state in thy unrivall'd merit , To which I thus subscribe . - Sir ...
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... spirit , with no more pause to its gayety than was needed to add to the interest by graver narrative dialogue . Broad and farcical as much of it is , it has as much unity of purpose and spirit as MACBETH itself . The dramatist used the ...
... spirit , with no more pause to its gayety than was needed to add to the interest by graver narrative dialogue . Broad and farcical as much of it is , it has as much unity of purpose and spirit as MACBETH itself . The dramatist used the ...
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... spirit which could not have been kept up through a patchwork renovation and improvement of some inferior author . But as this evi- dence of general spirit and style cannot well be analyzed in words , or put into the shape of formal ...
... spirit which could not have been kept up through a patchwork renovation and improvement of some inferior author . But as this evi- dence of general spirit and style cannot well be analyzed in words , or put into the shape of formal ...
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... spirit ? Who deciphers them ? Dro . S. I , sir , am Dromio : command him away . Dro . E. I , sir , am Dromio : pray let me stay . Ant . S. Egeon , art thou not ? or else his ghost ? Dro . S. O , my old master ! who hath bound him here ...
... spirit ? Who deciphers them ? Dro . S. I , sir , am Dromio : command him away . Dro . E. I , sir , am Dromio : pray let me stay . Ant . S. Egeon , art thou not ? or else his ghost ? Dro . S. O , my old master ! who hath bound him here ...
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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.