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Page 11
You look not well , signior Antonio ; You have too much respect upon the world :
They lose it , that do buy it with much care . Believe me , you are marvellously
chang ' d . Ant . I hold the world but as the world , Gratiano ; A stage , where every
...
You look not well , signior Antonio ; You have too much respect upon the world :
They lose it , that do buy it with much care . Believe me , you are marvellously
chang ' d . Ant . I hold the world but as the world , Gratiano ; A stage , where every
...
Page 25
How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a christian : But more ,
for that , in low simplicity , He lends out money gratis , and brings down The rate
of usance here with us in Venice ? . If I can catch him once upon the hip ' , 1 - the
...
How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a christian : But more ,
for that , in low simplicity , He lends out money gratis , and brings down The rate
of usance here with us in Venice ? . If I can catch him once upon the hip ' , 1 - the
...
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Why , look you , how you storm ! I would be friends with you , and have your love ,
Forget the shames that you have stain ' d me with , Supply your present wants ,
and take no doit Of usance for my monies , and you ' ll not hear me : This is kind I
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Why , look you , how you storm ! I would be friends with you , and have your love ,
Forget the shames that you have stain ' d me with , Supply your present wants ,
and take no doit Of usance for my monies , and you ' ll not hear me : This is kind I
...
Page 35
... if my father had not scanted me , And hedg ' d me by his wit ® , to yield myself
His wife , who wins me by that means I told you , Yourself , renowned prince ,
then stood as fair , As any comer I have look ' d on yet , For my affection . Mor .
... if my father had not scanted me , And hedg ' d me by his wit ® , to yield myself
His wife , who wins me by that means I told you , Yourself , renowned prince ,
then stood as fair , As any comer I have look ' d on yet , For my affection . Mor .
Page 36
Let us look into the poet ' s drift , and the ' history of the persons mentioned in the
context . If Hercules , ( says he , ) and Lichas were to play at dice for the decision
of their superiority , Lichas , the weaker man , might have the better cast of the ...
Let us look into the poet ' s drift , and the ' history of the persons mentioned in the
context . If Hercules , ( says he , ) and Lichas were to play at dice for the decision
of their superiority , Lichas , the weaker man , might have the better cast of the ...
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Page 129 - Nay, take my life and all, pardon not that : You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 134 - 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 138 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines...
Page 57 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm: Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.
Page 25 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 184 - 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 ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 304 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, — past the wit of man to say what dream it was : man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.
Page 223 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 141 - By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature.
Page 18 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes
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| Title | The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 5 The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 22 May 2007 |
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