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... Othello , i , 3 . OLIVES Cum grano salis . SALMON , WITH CUCUMBERS My wife and I bought a bit of salmon for 8d . and went to the Sun Taverne and eat it . PEPYS , Diary . SWEETBREAD PÂTÉS GREEN PEAS Not to know me argues yourselves ...
... Othello , i , 3 . OLIVES Cum grano salis . SALMON , WITH CUCUMBERS My wife and I bought a bit of salmon for 8d . and went to the Sun Taverne and eat it . PEPYS , Diary . SWEETBREAD PÂTÉS GREEN PEAS Not to know me argues yourselves ...
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... Othello , ii , 1 . LETTUCE SALAD Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods , Not hew him as a carcass . Julius Caesar , ii , 1 . Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl And , half suspected , animate the whole . SYDNEY SMITH , NEAPOLITAN ...
... Othello , ii , 1 . LETTUCE SALAD Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods , Not hew him as a carcass . Julius Caesar , ii , 1 . Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl And , half suspected , animate the whole . SYDNEY SMITH , NEAPOLITAN ...
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... OTHELLO , iv , 2 . They present her with wedding - gifts and offer- ings of consecrated wild rice . Kalidasa , SAKOONTALA , OR THE LOST RING . Procure the vicar To stay for me at church twixt twelve and one . MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR , iv ...
... OTHELLO , iv , 2 . They present her with wedding - gifts and offer- ings of consecrated wild rice . Kalidasa , SAKOONTALA , OR THE LOST RING . Procure the vicar To stay for me at church twixt twelve and one . MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR , iv ...
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... OTHELLO , i , 3 . And if it please you , so ; if not , why so . Two GENTLEMEN OF VERONA , ii , 1 . Study what you most affect . TAMING OF THE SHREW , i , 1 . Much may be said on both sides . Addison , SPECTATOR , no . 122 . Of two evils ...
... OTHELLO , i , 3 . And if it please you , so ; if not , why so . Two GENTLEMEN OF VERONA , ii , 1 . Study what you most affect . TAMING OF THE SHREW , i , 1 . Much may be said on both sides . Addison , SPECTATOR , no . 122 . Of two evils ...
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... OTHELLO , iii , 3 . I love that , though I hate it , and I have A kind of disagreeing consent to ' t . W. Cartwright , THE ORDINARY , iii , 5 . All flesh is nothing in his sight ! Beeves , at his touch , at once to jelly turn . Pope ...
... OTHELLO , iii , 3 . I love that , though I hate it , and I have A kind of disagreeing consent to ' t . W. Cartwright , THE ORDINARY , iii , 5 . All flesh is nothing in his sight ! Beeves , at his touch , at once to jelly turn . Pope ...
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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.