The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare,: According to the Improved Text of Edmund Malone, Including the Latest Revisions, : with a Life, Glossarial Notes, an Index, and One Hundred and Seventy Illustrations, from Designs by English Artists, Volume 3 |
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Page 130
But what of that ? Demetrius thinks not so ; He will not know what all but he do
know : And as he errs , doting on Hermia's eyes , So I , admiring of his qualities .
Things base and vile , holding no quantity , Love can transpose to form and
dignity .
But what of that ? Demetrius thinks not so ; He will not know what all but he do
know : And as he errs , doting on Hermia's eyes , So I , admiring of his qualities .
Things base and vile , holding no quantity , Love can transpose to form and
dignity .
Page 182
And now I have the boy , I will undo This hateful imperfection of her eyes . And ,
gentle Puck , take this transformed scalp From off the head of this Athenian swain
; That he awaking when the other do , May all to Athens back again repair ; And ...
And now I have the boy , I will undo This hateful imperfection of her eyes . And ,
gentle Puck , take this transformed scalp From off the head of this Athenian swain
; That he awaking when the other do , May all to Athens back again repair ; And ...
Page 246
If my observation , ( which very seldom lies ) By the heart's still rhetoric , disclosed
with eyes , Deceive me not now ... Why , all his behaviors did make their retire To
the court of his eye , peeping thorough desire : His heart , like an agate , with ...
If my observation , ( which very seldom lies ) By the heart's still rhetoric , disclosed
with eyes , Deceive me not now ... Why , all his behaviors did make their retire To
the court of his eye , peeping thorough desire : His heart , like an agate , with ...
Page 284
Now , for not looking on a woman's face , You have in that forsworn the use of
eyes , And study too , the causer of your vow : For where is any author in the
world , Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye ? 1 Learning is but an adjunct to
ourself ...
Now , for not looking on a woman's face , You have in that forsworn the use of
eyes , And study too , the causer of your vow : For where is any author in the
world , Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye ? 1 Learning is but an adjunct to
ourself ...
Page 328
... and vain ; Form'd by the eye , and , therefore , like the eye , Full of strange
shapes , of habits , and of forms , Varying in ... if , in your heavenly eyes , Have
misbecomed our oaths and gravities , Those heavenly eyes , that look into these
faults ...
... and vain ; Form'd by the eye , and , therefore , like the eye , Full of strange
shapes , of habits , and of forms , Varying in ... if , in your heavenly eyes , Have
misbecomed our oaths and gravities , Those heavenly eyes , that look into these
faults ...
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| Title | The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare,: According to the Improved Text of Edmund Malone, Including the Latest Revisions, : with a Life, Glossarial Notes, an Index, and One Hundred and Seventy Illustrations, from Designs by English Artists, Volume 3 The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare,: According to the Improved Text of Edmund Malone, Including the Latest Revisions, : with a Life, Glossarial Notes, an Index, and One Hundred and Seventy Illustrations, from Designs by English Artists, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | Henry G. Bohn, 1844 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 22 Feb 2008 |
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