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Ague - cheek is drawn with great propriety , but his character is , in a great measure , that of natural fatuity , and is therefore not the proper prey of a satirist . The soliloquy of Malvolio is truly comic ; he is betrayed to ...
Ague - cheek is drawn with great propriety , but his character is , in a great measure , that of natural fatuity , and is therefore not the proper prey of a satirist . The soliloquy of Malvolio is truly comic ; he is betrayed to ...
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There is a fair behaviour in thee , captain ; And though that nature with a beauteous wall Doth oft close in pollution , yet of thee I will believe , thou hast a mind that suits With this thy fair and outward character .
There is a fair behaviour in thee , captain ; And though that nature with a beauteous wall Doth oft close in pollution , yet of thee I will believe , thou hast a mind that suits With this thy fair and outward character .
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... And made the most notorious geck , and gull , That e'er invention play'd on ? tell me why ? Oli . Alas , Malvolio , this is not my writing , Though , I confess , much like the character : But , out of question , ' tis Maria's hand .
... And made the most notorious geck , and gull , That e'er invention play'd on ? tell me why ? Oli . Alas , Malvolio , this is not my writing , Though , I confess , much like the character : But , out of question , ' tis Maria's hand .
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The host , in the M. W. of Windsor , calls Caius a Castilian king Urinal ; and in the Merry Devil of Edmonton , one of the characters says : my Castilian dialogues ! ” In an old comedy called Look about you , 1600 , it ...
The host , in the M. W. of Windsor , calls Caius a Castilian king Urinal ; and in the Merry Devil of Edmonton , one of the characters says : my Castilian dialogues ! ” In an old comedy called Look about you , 1600 , it ...
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Field , in his Amends for Ladies , another comedy , 1618 , gives the following character of her : Hence lewd impudent , " I know not what to term thee , man or woman , “ For nature , shaming to acknowledge thee “ For either ...
Field , in his Amends for Ladies , another comedy , 1618 , gives the following character of her : Hence lewd impudent , " I know not what to term thee , man or woman , “ For nature , shaming to acknowledge thee “ For either ...
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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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