The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 5F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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Page 75
... reason ? I am a Jew : Hath not a Jew eyes ? hath not a Jew hands , organs , dimensions , senses , affections , passions ? fed with the same food , hurt with the same wea- pons , subject to the same diseases , healed by the same means ...
... reason ? I am a Jew : Hath not a Jew eyes ? hath not a Jew hands , organs , dimensions , senses , affections , passions ? fed with the same food , hurt with the same wea- pons , subject to the same diseases , healed by the same means ...
Page 78
... reason ; as this stone " is likewise said to take away all enmity , and to reconcile man and wife . " Other superstitious qualities are imputed to it , all of which were either monitory or preservative to the wearer . The same quality ...
... reason ; as this stone " is likewise said to take away all enmity , and to reconcile man and wife . " Other superstitious qualities are imputed to it , all of which were either monitory or preservative to the wearer . The same quality ...
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... SALE . And I have reason for it . Commends him to you . BASS . I did , my lord , Signior Antonio [ Gives BASSANIO a letter . Ere I ope his letter , I pray you , tell me how my good friend SC . II . 91 MERCHANT OF VENICE .
... SALE . And I have reason for it . Commends him to you . BASS . I did , my lord , Signior Antonio [ Gives BASSANIO a letter . Ere I ope his letter , I pray you , tell me how my good friend SC . II . 91 MERCHANT OF VENICE .
Page 96
... reason well I know ; I oft deliver'd from his forfeitures Many that have at times made moan to me ; Therefore he hates me . SALAN . I am sure , the duke Will never grant this forfeiture to hold . ANT . The duke cannot deny the course of ...
... reason well I know ; I oft deliver'd from his forfeitures Many that have at times made moan to me ; Therefore he hates me . SALAN . I am sure , the duke Will never grant this forfeiture to hold . ANT . The duke cannot deny the course of ...
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... reason : but if she be less than an honest wo- man , she is , indeed , more than I took her for . LOR . How every fool can play upon the word ! I think , the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence ; and discourse grow ...
... reason : but if she be less than an honest wo- man , she is , indeed , more than I took her for . LOR . How every fool can play upon the word ! I think , the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence ; and discourse grow ...
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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