The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes, Volume 8Munroe, Francis & Parker, 1812 |
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... nothing but a band of Tom - o'- Bedlams . WARBURTON . [ 5 ] As Edgar I am out - lawed , dead in law : I have no longer any political existence . JOHNSON : SCENE IV . Before GLOSTER's Castle . Enter LEAR , 46 ACT 11 . KING LEAR .
... nothing but a band of Tom - o'- Bedlams . WARBURTON . [ 5 ] As Edgar I am out - lawed , dead in law : I have no longer any political existence . JOHNSON : SCENE IV . Before GLOSTER's Castle . Enter LEAR , 46 ACT 11 . KING LEAR .
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... dead , " I'll grind his bones to make me bread . " English is here judiciously changed to British , because the characters are Britons , and the scene is laid long before the English had any thing to do with this country . Our author is ...
... dead , " I'll grind his bones to make me bread . " English is here judiciously changed to British , because the characters are Britons , and the scene is laid long before the English had any thing to do with this country . Our author is ...
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... dead ; Slain by his servant , going to put out The other eye of Gloster . Alb . Gloster's eyes ! Mes . A servant that he bred , thrill'd with remorse , Oppos'd against the act , bending his sword To his great master ; who , thereat ...
... dead ; Slain by his servant , going to put out The other eye of Gloster . Alb . Gloster's eyes ! Mes . A servant that he bred , thrill'd with remorse , Oppos'd against the act , bending his sword To his great master ; who , thereat ...
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... dead ; Edmund and I have talk'd ; And more convenient is he for my hand , Than for your lady's : -You may gather more . 3 If you do find him , pray you , give him this ; And when your mistress hears thus much from you , I pray , desire ...
... dead ; Edmund and I have talk'd ; And more convenient is he for my hand , Than for your lady's : -You may gather more . 3 If you do find him , pray you , give him this ; And when your mistress hears thus much from you , I pray , desire ...
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... dead ? Ho , you sir ! friend ! -Hear you , sir ? —speak ! [ 5 ] Her cock - her cock - boat . JOHNSON . [ 6 ] This description has has been much admired since the time of Addison , who has remarked , with a poor attempt at pleasantry ...
... dead ? Ho , you sir ! friend ! -Hear you , sir ? —speak ! [ 5 ] Her cock - her cock - boat . JOHNSON . [ 6 ] This description has has been much admired since the time of Addison , who has remarked , with a poor attempt at pleasantry ...
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art thou BENVOLIO better blood Brabantio CAPULET Cassio Cordelia Corn Cyprus daughter dead dear death Desdemona dost thou doth Duke Edmund Emil Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair Farewell father fear fool Fortinbras Gent gentleman give Gloster GONERIL Guil Hamlet hath hear heart heaven hither honest honour Horatio i'the Iago is't JOHNSON Juliet Kent king King Lear knave lady Laer Laertes Lear look lord madam MALONE Mantua marry matter means Mercutio Michael Cassio Moor night noble Nurse Ophelia Othello play poison'd POLONIUS poor Pr'ythee pray Queen Roderigo Romeo ROMEO AND JULIET SCENE Shakspeare soul speak STEEV STEEVENS sweet sword tell thee there's thine thing thou art thou hast to-night Tybalt VIII villain WARBURTON wilt word
Popular passages
Page 54 - 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...
Page 48 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this.
Page 24 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres; Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine...
Page 22 - So, oft it chances in particular men, That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth,— wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin,— By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man...
Page 27 - I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there...
Page 48 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Page 56 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale : look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east : Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 16 - My very noble and approv'd good masters, That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true ; true, I have married her : The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Page 55 - Stain my man's cheeks ! — No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things,— What they are, yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth.
Page 53 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw 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.