The Works of Shakespeare: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions: Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing. Midsummer-night's dream. Love's labour's lostEstes and Lauriat, 1883 - English drama |
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... better theologian than statesman or governor , the circumstance of the Duke's appearing so much more at home in the cowl and hood than in his ducal robes certainly lends some credit to this discov- ery . The King's unamiable repugnance ...
... better theologian than statesman or governor , the circumstance of the Duke's appearing so much more at home in the cowl and hood than in his ducal robes certainly lends some credit to this discov- ery . The King's unamiable repugnance ...
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... better than a majority , however large , without it . Whether this view be fully warranted or not , it has been much engthened by a recent discovery . The play is now known to have been acted at court December 26 , 1604. For this ...
... better than a majority , however large , without it . Whether this view be fully warranted or not , it has been much engthened by a recent discovery . The play is now known to have been acted at court December 26 , 1604. For this ...
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... better able to understand the deputy's character than persuade others of it : for a man of his wisdom , even if he had no available facts in the case , could hardly be ignorant that an austerity so theatrical as Angelo's must needs be ...
... better able to understand the deputy's character than persuade others of it : for a man of his wisdom , even if he had no available facts in the case , could hardly be ignorant that an austerity so theatrical as Angelo's must needs be ...
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... better judge of what belongs to wisdom and goodness — seems to have meant him for a wise and good man ; yet he has represented him as having rather more skill and pleasure in strategical arts and roundabout ways than is altogether ...
... better judge of what belongs to wisdom and goodness — seems to have meant him for a wise and good man ; yet he has represented him as having rather more skill and pleasure in strategical arts and roundabout ways than is altogether ...
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... better shown than the statesman ; a he seems to take a very questionable delight in moving about is an unseen providence , by secret counsels leading the wicked designs of others to safe and wholesome issues . Schle- gel thinks he has ...
... better shown than the statesman ; a he seems to take a very questionable delight in moving about is an unseen providence , by secret counsels leading the wicked designs of others to safe and wholesome issues . Schle- gel thinks he has ...
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Page 71 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling...
Page 458 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!
Page 267 - 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 283 - 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 51 - 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.
Page 275 - Swifter than the moon's sphere ; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be : In their gold coats spots you see ; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours : I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Page 336 - Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the scritch-owl, scritching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth its sprite, In the church-way paths to glide...
Page 459 - When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Page 328 - 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. Such tricks hath strong imagination ; That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear ! Hip.
Page 87 - Take, O, take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn: But my kisses bring again Bring again; Seals of love, but seal'd in vain, Sealed in vain.