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... in his Wisdom of the Ancients , supposes this story to warn us against enquiring into the secrets of princes , by shewing , that those who know that which for reasons of state is to be concealed , will be detected and destroyed by ...
... in his Wisdom of the Ancients , supposes this story to warn us against enquiring into the secrets of princes , by shewing , that those who know that which for reasons of state is to be concealed , will be detected and destroyed by ...
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A proper man , was the ancient phrase for a handsome man : “ This Ludovico is a proper man . " Othello . The proper false may be yet explained another way , Shakspere sometimes uses proper for peculiar .
A proper man , was the ancient phrase for a handsome man : “ This Ludovico is a proper man . " Othello . The proper false may be yet explained another way , Shakspere sometimes uses proper for peculiar .
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Leman is frequently used by the ancient writers ; and Spenser in particular . So again , in The Noble Soldier , 1643 : “ Fright him as he's embracing his new leman . " The money was given him for his leman , i . e . his mistress .
Leman is frequently used by the ancient writers ; and Spenser in particular . So again , in The Noble Soldier , 1643 : “ Fright him as he's embracing his new leman . " The money was given him for his leman , i . e . his mistress .
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By the mention of these three , therefore , we may suppose it was Shakspere's purpose , to hint to us those surprizing effects of musick , which the ancients speak of . When they tell us of Amphion , who moved stones and trees ; Orpheus ...
By the mention of these three , therefore , we may suppose it was Shakspere's purpose , to hint to us those surprizing effects of musick , which the ancients speak of . When they tell us of Amphion , who moved stones and trees ; Orpheus ...
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... brings the ballad to Sir Toby's remembrance : Lady , lady , is the burther , and should be printed as such . , . My very ingenious friend , Dr. Percy , has given a stanza of it in his . Reliques of Ancient Poetry , vol . i ...
... brings the ballad to Sir Toby's remembrance : Lady , lady , is the burther , and should be printed as such . , . My very ingenious friend , Dr. Percy , has given a stanza of it in his . Reliques of Ancient Poetry , vol . i ...
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Page 75 - Say there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Page 43 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought; And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 77 - I'd have you do it ever: when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so; so give alms; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too : When you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Page 75 - You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 5 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ! it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour ! Enough ; no more : 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 102 - When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day.
Page 25 - Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on...
Page 33 - O, mistress mine, where are you roaming? O stay and hear ; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low : Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers' meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.
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| Title | Twelfth night. Winter's tale Volume 9 of The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All the Various Commentators; Printed Complete from the Best Editions of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | Printed for, and under the direction of, John Bell, 1788 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 May 2007 |
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