The Complete Works: Friendship in fashion. The history and fall of Caius Marius. The orphan. The souldiers fortune

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Nonesuch Press, 1926 - Private presses

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Page 118 - Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 106 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Page 124 - 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 105 - Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name; And for that name, which is no part of thee, Take all myself.
Page 361 - As scriveners draw away the bankers' trade. Howe'er the poet 's safe enough to-day. They cannot censure an unfinished play. But, as when vizard-mask appears in pit, Straight every man, who thinks himself a wit, Perks up, and, managing his comb with grace, With his white wig sets off his nut-brown face...
Page 147 - Of ill-shap'd fishes ; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds, Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses, Were thinly scatter'd to make up a show.
Page 215 - Sure my lord but mocks me. Go see Monimia ! Pray, my lord, excuse me, And leave the conduct of this part of life To my own choice.
Page 166 - Paul. They're both of nature mild, and full of sweetness. They came twins from the womb, and still they live As if they would go twins too .to the grave: Neither has any thing he calls his own, But of each other's joys as griefs partaking ; So very honestly, so well they love, As they were only for each other born.
Page 338 - For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
Page 244 - Of all strumpets, fortune's the basest; 'twas fortune made me a soldier, a rogue in red, the grievance of the nation; fortune made the peace just when we were upon the brink of a war ; then fortune disbanded us, and lost us two months...

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