Select Plays; A Midsummer Night's DreamClarendon Press, 1879 - 147 pages |
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... Thou , thou , Lysander , thou hast given her rhymes And interchanged love - tokens with my child : Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung With feigning voice verses of feigning love , And stolen the impression of her fantasy With ...
... Thou , thou , Lysander , thou hast given her rhymes And interchanged love - tokens with my child : Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung With feigning voice verses of feigning love , And stolen the impression of her fantasy With ...
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... thou lovest me then , Cannot pursue us . Steal forth thy father's house to - morrow night ; And in the wood , a league without the town , Where I did meet thee once with Helena , To do observance to a morn of May , There will I stay for ...
... thou lovest me then , Cannot pursue us . Steal forth thy father's house to - morrow night ; And in the wood , a league without the town , Where I did meet thee once with Helena , To do observance to a morn of May , There will I stay for ...
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... thou for us ; And good luck grant thee thy Demetrius ! Keep word , Lysander : we must starve our sight From lovers ' food till morrow deep midnight . 210 220 Lys . I will , my Hermia . [ Exit Herm . ] Helena , adieu : As you on him ...
... thou for us ; And good luck grant thee thy Demetrius ! Keep word , Lysander : we must starve our sight From lovers ' food till morrow deep midnight . 210 220 Lys . I will , my Hermia . [ Exit Herm . ] Helena , adieu : As you on him ...
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... thou lob of spirits ; I'll be gone : Our queen and all her elves come here anon . Puck . The king doth keep his revels here to - night : Take heed the queen come not within his sight ; For Oberon is passing fell and wrath , Because that ...
... thou lob of spirits ; I'll be gone : Our queen and all her elves come here anon . Puck . The king doth keep his revels here to - night : Take heed the queen come not within his sight ; For Oberon is passing fell and wrath , Because that ...
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... thou thus for shame , Titania , Glance at my credit with Hippolyta , Knowing I know thy love to Theseus ? Didst thou not lead him through the glimmering night 60 70 From Perigenia , whom he ravished ? And make him ACT II . SCENE 1 . 13.
... thou thus for shame , Titania , Glance at my credit with Hippolyta , Knowing I know thy love to Theseus ? Didst thou not lead him through the glimmering night 60 70 From Perigenia , whom he ravished ? And make him ACT II . SCENE 1 . 13.
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Page 14 - No night is now with hymn or carol blest : Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger, washes all the air, That rheumatic diseases do abound : And thorough this distemperature we see The seasons alter : hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set.
Page 71 - That it should come to this! But two months dead - nay, not so much, not two So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Page 3 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Page 63 - Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud.
Page 71 - And strait conjunction with this sex ; for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake ; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness, but shall see her gain'd By a far worse ; or, if she love, withheld By parents ; or his happiest choice too late Shall meet, already link'd and wedlock-bound To a fell adversary, his hate or shame : Which infinite calamity shall cause To human life, and household peace confound.
Page 8 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
Page 69 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 14 - Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world, By their increase, now knows not which is which. And this same progeny of evils comes From our debate, from our dissension; We are their parents and original.
Page 28 - Be kind and courteous to this gentleman ; Hop in his walks, and gambol in his eyes ; Feed him with apricocks and dewberries, -. With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries. The honey-bags steal from the humble-bees, And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs, And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes...
Page 136 - And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder ? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I...