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 176
Thou seest , these lovers seek a place to fight : Hie therefore , Robin , overcast
the night ; The starry welkin cover thou anon With drooping fog , as black as
Acheron ; And lead these testy rivals so astray , As one come not within another's
way .
Thou seest , these lovers seek a place to fight : Hie therefore , Robin , overcast
the night ; The starry welkin cover thou anon With drooping fog , as black as
Acheron ; And lead these testy rivals so astray , As one come not within another's
way .
Page 192
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains , Such shaping fantasies , that
apprehend More than cool reason ever ... The lunatic , the lover , and the poet , I
To prevent them from falling off during the representation Are of imagination all ...
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains , Such shaping fantasies , that
apprehend More than cool reason ever ... The lunatic , the lover , and the poet , I
To prevent them from falling off during the representation Are of imagination all ...
Page 193
Are of imagination all compact : 1 One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ;
That is the madman : the lover , all as frantic , Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of
Egypt : The poet's eye , in a fine frenzy rolling , Doth glance from heaven to earth
...
Are of imagination all compact : 1 One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ;
That is the madman : the lover , all as frantic , Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of
Egypt : The poet's eye , in a fine frenzy rolling , Doth glance from heaven to earth
...
Page 198
This man , with lime and rough - cast , doth present Wall , that vile wall which did
these lovers sunder : And through wall's chink , poor souls , they are content To
whisper ; at the which let no man wonder . This man , with lantern , dog , and
bush ...
This man , with lime and rough - cast , doth present Wall , that vile wall which did
these lovers sunder : And through wall's chink , poor souls , they are content To
whisper ; at the which let no man wonder . This man , with lantern , dog , and
bush ...
Page 199
Whereat , with blade , with bloody blameful blade , He bravely broach'd his
boiling bloody breast ; And , Thisby tarrying in mulberry shade , His dagger drew ,
and died . For all the rest , Let Lion , Moonshine , Wall , and lovers twain At large
...
Whereat , with blade , with bloody blameful blade , He bravely broach'd his
boiling bloody breast ; And , Thisby tarrying in mulberry shade , His dagger drew ,
and died . For all the rest , Let Lion , Moonshine , Wall , and lovers twain At large
...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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