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 3Henry G. Bohn, 1844 |
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... letters of recommendation from an eminent civilian , and , in the dis- guise of a doctor of laws , is introduced to the Duke , as a person well qualified to decide the cause pending between the merchant and the Jew ; and at length , by ...
... letters of recommendation from an eminent civilian , and , in the dis- guise of a doctor of laws , is introduced to the Duke , as a person well qualified to decide the cause pending between the merchant and the Jew ; and at length , by ...
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... letters delivered ; put the liveries to making ; and desire Gratiano to come anon to my lodging . [ Exit Servant . Laun . To him , father . Gob . God bless your worship ! Bas . Gramercy ! 1 Wouldst thou aught with me ? Gob . Here's my ...
... letters delivered ; put the liveries to making ; and desire Gratiano to come anon to my lodging . [ Exit Servant . Laun . To him , father . Gob . God bless your worship ! Bas . Gramercy ! 1 Wouldst thou aught with me ? Gob . Here's my ...
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... letter ; do it secretly , And so farewell : I would not have my father See me talk with thee . Laun . Adieu ! -tears exhibit my tongue.- Most beautiful pagan ! —most sweet Jew ! If a Chris- tian do not play the knave , and get thee , I ...
... letter ; do it secretly , And so farewell : I would not have my father See me talk with thee . Laun . Adieu ! -tears exhibit my tongue.- Most beautiful pagan ! —most sweet Jew ! If a Chris- tian do not play the knave , and get thee , I ...
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... letter . Friend Launcelot , what's the news ? Laun . An it shall please you to break up this , it shall seem to signify . Lor . I know the hand : in faith , ' tis a fair hand . And whiter than the paper it writ on , Is the fair hand ...
... letter . Friend Launcelot , what's the news ? Laun . An it shall please you to break up this , it shall seem to signify . Lor . I know the hand : in faith , ' tis a fair hand . And whiter than the paper it writ on , Is the fair hand ...
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... letter from fair Jessica ? Lor . I must needs tell thee all . She hath di- rected , How I shall take her from her father's house ; What gold and jewels she is furnish'd with ; What page's suit she hath in readiness . If e'er the Jew her ...
... letter from fair Jessica ? Lor . I must needs tell thee all . She hath di- rected , How I shall take her from her father's house ; What gold and jewels she is furnish'd with ; What page's suit she hath in readiness . If e'er the Jew her ...
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adieu Antonio Armado Athens Bassanio Biron blood bond Boyet casket Costard dear Demetrius dost doth ducats duke Dull Dumain Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair fair lady fairy father fear flesh fool forsworn gentle give grace Gratiano hath hear heart heaven Helena Hermia Hippolyta Jaquenetta Jessica Kath King l'envoy lady Laun Launcelot lion Longaville look lord Lorenzo love's LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST lovers Lysander madam master MERCHANT OF VENICE MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM mistress moon Moth Nerissa never night o'er oath Oberon PHILOSTRATE play Pompey Portia praise pray thee princess Puck Pyramus Quince ring Rosaline Salan Salar SCENE SHAK Shylock Sir Nath sleep soul speak swear sweet tell Theseus thing Thisby thou art thou hast thousand ducats Titania tongue true Venice word
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Page 12 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 127 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold!
Page 332 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Page 105 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended, and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Page 126 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Page 333 - Tu-whit, tu-who ! a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted...
Page 101 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Page 85 - You have among you many a purchased slave, Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules, You use in abject and in slavish parts, Because you bought them: shall I say to you, Let them be free, marry them to your heirs?
Page 220 - Save base authority from others' books. • These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are.
Page 208 - 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. Now it is the time of night ' That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide...