The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 17F. C. and J. Rivington; T. Egerton; J. Cuthell; Scatcherd and Letterman; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Cadell and Davies ... [and 28 others in London], J. Deighton and sons, Cambridge: Wilson and son, York: and Stirling and Slade, Fairbairn and Anderson, and D. Brown, Edinburgh., 1821 |
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poor jade- ] Poor jade is used , not in contempt , but in compassion . Poor jade means the horse wearied with his journey . Jade , however , seems anciently to have signified what we now call ...
poor jade- ] Poor jade is used , not in contempt , but in compassion . Poor jade means the horse wearied with his journey . Jade , however , seems anciently to have signified what we now call ...
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I am as poor as Job , my lord ; but not so patient : your lordship may minister the potion of imprisonment to me , in respect of poverty ; but how I should be your patient to follow your preor indeed through the laziness of compositors ...
I am as poor as Job , my lord ; but not so patient : your lordship may minister the potion of imprisonment to me , in respect of poverty ; but how I should be your patient to follow your preor indeed through the laziness of compositors ...
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There is a poor quibble upon the word wax , which signifies increase as well as the matter of the honey - comb ; Johnson . The same quibble has already occurred in Love's Labour's Lost , Act V. Sc . II .: “ That was the way to make his ...
There is a poor quibble upon the word wax , which signifies increase as well as the matter of the honey - comb ; Johnson . The same quibble has already occurred in Love's Labour's Lost , Act V. Sc . II .: “ That was the way to make his ...
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A hundred mark is a long loan 8 for a poor lone woman to bear : and I have borne , and borne , and borne ; and have been fubbed off , 6 - an a ' come but within my vice ; ] Vice or grasp ; a metaphor taken from a smith's vice : there is ...
A hundred mark is a long loan 8 for a poor lone woman to bear : and I have borne , and borne , and borne ; and have been fubbed off , 6 - an a ' come but within my vice ; ] Vice or grasp ; a metaphor taken from a smith's vice : there is ...
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O my most worshipful lord , an't please your grace , I am a poor widow of Eastcheap , and he is arrested at my suit . Ch . Just . For what sum ? Host . It is more than for some , my lord ; it is for all , all I have : he hath eaten me ...
O my most worshipful lord , an't please your grace , I am a poor widow of Eastcheap , and he is arrested at my suit . Ch . Just . For what sum ? Host . It is more than for some , my lord ; it is for all , all I have : he hath eaten me ...
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Page 103 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast, Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge. And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes...
Page 335 - Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war. And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding— which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
Page 257 - Hear him but reason in divinity, And, all-admiring, with an inward wish You would desire the king were made a prelate : Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would say, it hath been...
Page 280 - Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth : your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all posterity, That wear this...
Page 413 - We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition...
Page 413 - This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered...
Page 412 - Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made • And crowns for convoy put into his purse : We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us.
Page 23 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me. The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent anything that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is invented on me: I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.