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... Cymbeline , iii , 4 . LIQUEURS Which draught to me were cordial . Winter's Tale , i , 2 . Serenely full , the epicure would say , " Fate cannot harm me , -I have dined to - day . " SYDNEY SMITH , " Next to the originator of a a good ...
... Cymbeline , iii , 4 . LIQUEURS Which draught to me were cordial . Winter's Tale , i , 2 . Serenely full , the epicure would say , " Fate cannot harm me , -I have dined to - day . " SYDNEY SMITH , " Next to the originator of a a good ...
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... CYMBELINE , iii , 6 . Sit down and feed and welcome to our table . AS YOU LIKE IT , ii , 7 . Bid them cover the table , serve in the meat . MERCHANT OF VENICE , iii , 5 . Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly ? MERCHANT OF VENICE ...
... CYMBELINE , iii , 6 . Sit down and feed and welcome to our table . AS YOU LIKE IT , ii , 7 . Bid them cover the table , serve in the meat . MERCHANT OF VENICE , iii , 5 . Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly ? MERCHANT OF VENICE ...
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... CYMBELINE , iii , 6 . Give them life whom hunger starved half dead . PERICLES , i , 4 . Prepare for dinner . That is done , sir ; they have all stomachs . MERCHANT OF VENICE , iii , 5 . Compelled by hunger and lack of other means ...
... CYMBELINE , iii , 6 . Give them life whom hunger starved half dead . PERICLES , i , 4 . Prepare for dinner . That is done , sir ; they have all stomachs . MERCHANT OF VENICE , iii , 5 . Compelled by hunger and lack of other means ...
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... CYMBELINE , iii , 6 . And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper . LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST , i , 1 . Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale ? TWELFTH NIGHT , ii , 3 . Did you not ...
... CYMBELINE , iii , 6 . And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper . LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST , i , 1 . Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale ? TWELFTH NIGHT , ii , 3 . Did you not ...
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... CYMBELINE , iv , 2 . God defend the lute should be like the case . MUCH ADO , ii , 1 . Lobsters . If , like a crab , you could go backward . Crabs . HAMLET , ii , 2 . Like the watermen that row one way and look another . Burton ...
... CYMBELINE , iv , 2 . God defend the lute should be like the case . MUCH ADO , ii , 1 . Lobsters . If , like a crab , you could go backward . Crabs . HAMLET , ii , 2 . Like the watermen that row one way and look another . Burton ...
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ALCHEMIST ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA Beaumont and Fletcher BIGLOW PAPERS bless Byron Cartwright COMEDY OF ERRORS Congreve CORIOLANUS Cowley Cowper CYMBELINE Dekker and Ford DIARY Dinner Menus dish DON JUAN doth drink Dryden DUNCIAD EPILOGUE FABLE FOR CRITICS feast friends gentle GENTLEMEN OF VERONA give HAMLET hath HENRY VI HENRY VIII honour Jonson JULIUS CÆSAR KING JOHN ladies LEAR Lord LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST Lowell MACBETH MEASURE FOR MEASURE Men's Dinner MERCHANT OF VENICE MERRY WIVES MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Milton MORAL ESSAYS never O. W. Holmes OTHELLO PARADISE LOST Pepys PERICLES POLITE CONVERSATIONS Pope praise pray PROLOGUE PSALMS Randolph RICHARD ROMEO AND JULIET SATIRES Shackerley Marmion Shakspere Sheridan SHREW soul sweet Swift TAMING taste TEMPEST Tennyson thee There's thing thou TIMON OF ATHENS TITUS ANDRONICUS tobacco TROILUS AND CRESSIDA TWELFTH NIGHT unto wine WINTER'S TALE WIVES OF WINDSOR WOMAN HATER
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Page 22 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page 190 - This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
Page 188 - Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts. O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness : fear before him, all the earth.
Page 162 - Paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning — neither would it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments : — But, Sir Anthony, I would send her, at nine years old, to a boardingschool, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice. Then, sir, she should have a supercilious knowledge in accounts ; — and as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries...
Page 18 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of link-ed sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running ; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony : That Orpheus...
Page 158 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Page 189 - When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me : for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
Page 145 - For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Page 169 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Page 166 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.