The works of Shakespear [ed. by H. Blair], in which the beauties observed by Pope, Warburton and Dodd are pointed out, together with the author's life; a glossary [&c.]. |
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... Sycorax , who with age and envy Was grown into a hoop ? haft thou forgot her ? Ari . No , Sir . Pro . Thou haft : where was fhe born ? speak ; tell me . Ari . Sir , in Argier . Pro . Oh , was the fo ? I muft Once in a month recount what ...
... Sycorax , who with age and envy Was grown into a hoop ? haft thou forgot her ? Ari . No , Sir . Pro . Thou haft : where was fhe born ? speak ; tell me . Ari . Sir , in Argier . Pro . Oh , was the fo ? I muft Once in a month recount what ...
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... Sycorax Could not again undo : it was mine art , When I arriv'd and heard thee , that made gape The pine , and let thee out . Ari . I thank thee , mafter . Pro . If thou more murmur'st , I will rend an oak , And peg thee in his knotty ...
... Sycorax Could not again undo : it was mine art , When I arriv'd and heard thee , that made gape The pine , and let thee out . Ari . I thank thee , mafter . Pro . If thou more murmur'st , I will rend an oak , And peg thee in his knotty ...
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... Sycorax my mother , " Which thou tak'ft from me . When thou camest first , " Thou ftroak'dft me , and madft much of ine ; would't give me and " Water with berries in't ; and teach me how " To name the bigger light , and how the lefs ...
... Sycorax my mother , " Which thou tak'ft from me . When thou camest first , " Thou ftroak'dft me , and madft much of ine ; would't give me and " Water with berries in't ; and teach me how " To name the bigger light , and how the lefs ...
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... Sycorax my dam , and she ; But fhe as far furpaffes Sycorax , As greatest does the leaft . Ste . Is it fo brave a lafs ? Cal . Ay , Lord ; the will become thy bed , I warrant , And bring thee forth brave brood . Ste . Monster , I will ...
... Sycorax my dam , and she ; But fhe as far furpaffes Sycorax , As greatest does the leaft . Ste . Is it fo brave a lafs ? Cal . Ay , Lord ; the will become thy bed , I warrant , And bring thee forth brave brood . Ste . Monster , I will ...
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Page 70 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind ; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind...
Page 31 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 37 - Hence, bashful cunning; And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.
Page 165 - Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness ; And, being help'd, inhabits there. Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling ; She excels each mortal thing Upon the dull earth dwelling ; To her let us garlands bring.
Page 110 - The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 110 - Lovers, and madmen, have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact :' One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt...
Page 16 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Page 121 - If we shadows have offended. Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here, While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend.
Page 265 - Stands at a guard with envy ; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone : hence shall we see, If power change purpose, what our seemers be.
Page 278 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: how would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.