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Miscellaneous Essays
by Mathew Carey - 1830 - 472 pages
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Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

William Shakespeare - 1881 - 300 pages
...; read it at more leisure. But wilt thou hear me how I did proceed? Horatio. I beseech you. Hamlet. Being thus be-netted round with villanies— Ere I could make a prologue to my brains, 30 They had begun the play — I sat me down, Devis'da new commission, wrote it fair; 1 once did hold...
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Tragedies

William Shakespeare - 1881 - 816 pages
...commission : read it at more leisure. But wilt thou hear me how I did proceed? HOT. I beseech you. Hum. Being thus be-netted round with villanies, — Ere I could make a prologue to my brains, . 80 They had begun the play — I sat me down, Devised a new commission, wrote it fair: 1 once did...
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The Shakespeare Phrase Book

John Bartlett - 1881 - 1046 pages
...This bodiless creation ecstasy Is very cunning in . . iii. 4. Cudgel thy brains no more about it vi nst tell why one's nose stands i1 the middle on 's face ? — No v. 2. Had he a hand to write this ? a heart and brain to breed it in ? A' ;;/,;• Lear, i. 2. If a...
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The Shakespeare Phrase Book

John Bartlett - 1881 - 1054 pages
...This bodiless creation ecstasy Is very cunning in . . iii. 4. Cij£^el thy brains no more about it vi &Ǖ yr ' _ :e j L F% ش ihe play v. 2. Had lie a hand to write this ? a heart and brain to breed it in ? King Lear, i. 2. H...
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Shakespeare's Hamlet

William Shakespeare - 1882 - 260 pages
...commission ; read it at more leisure. But wilt thou hear me how I did proceed ? Hor. I beseech you. Ham. Being thus be-netted round with villanies, — Ere...brains, They had begun the play, — I sat me down ; Devised a new commission ; wrote it fair;— 1 once did hold it, as our statists do, How to forget...
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Hamlet...

William Shakespeare - 1882 - 156 pages
...commission: read it at more leisure. But wilt thou hear me how I did proceed? Hor. I beseech you. Ham. Being thus be-netted round with villanies, — Ere I could make a prologue to my brains. 30 They had begun the play — I sat me down, Devised a new commission, wrote it fair: 1 once did hold...
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The Hamlet of Edwin Booth

Charles Harlen Shattuck - 1564-1616 - 1969 - 382 pages
...how I did proceed? Horatio. I BESEECH you. Hamlet. BEING THUS benetted-round with VILLAINIES, ERE / could make a prologue to my brains, They had begun the PLAY — I sat me down: Devised a new commission; wrote it fair. — I once did hold it, as our STATISTS do, A BASENESS to...
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Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary

Alexander Schmidt, Gregor Sarrazin - Literary Collections - 1971 - 740 pages
...my dearest foe in heaven or ever I had seen that day, Hml. I, 2, 183 {Ff ere I had ever eeen~). or 1 could make a prologue to my brains, they had begun the play, V, 2, 30 (Ff ere). fU think he'll grant the tribute or look upon our Romans, Cymb. II, 4, 14. Particularly...
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A History of Elizabethan Drama, Volume 5

Muriel Clara Bradbrook - English drama - 1979 - 204 pages
...— 'About my brain !' and 'No, up sword!' spring from an inner conflict that spurs ahead of intent. Ere I could make a prologue to my brains, They had begun the play. (5.2.307-8) Intuition acts almost as a kind of perception ; as he reads his own death warrant by the...
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Comic Women, Tragic Men: A Study of Gender and Genre in Shakespeare

Linda Bamber - Drama - 1982 - 223 pages
...stay the grinding of the ax, My head should be struck off. Being thus benetted round with villains, Or I could make a prologue to my brains, They had begun the play. I sat me down, Devised a new commission, wrote it fair. Wilt thou know Th' effect of what I wrote? Horatio Ay, good...
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