The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr., embracing a life of the poet and notes, Volume 2 |
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... tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody . 1 Shakspeare forgot that Theseus performed his exploits before the Trojan war , and , consequently , long before the death of Dido . 2 Fair for fairness , beauty - very common in writers ...
... tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody . 1 Shakspeare forgot that Theseus performed his exploits before the Trojan war , and , consequently , long before the death of Dido . 2 Fair for fairness , beauty - very common in writers ...
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... tongue , Thorny hedge - hogs , be not seen ; Newts , and blindworms , 5 do no wrong ; Come not near our fairy queen . 1 The roundel , or round , as its name implies , was a dance in a ring . 2 Bats . 3 Sports . 4 Efts . 5 Slow - worms ...
... tongue , Thorny hedge - hogs , be not seen ; Newts , and blindworms , 5 do no wrong ; Come not near our fairy queen . 1 The roundel , or round , as its name implies , was a dance in a ring . 2 Bats . 3 Sports . 4 Efts . 5 Slow - worms ...
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... tongue ; bring him silently . [ Exeunt . SCENE II . Another Part of the Wood . Enter OBERON . Obe . I wonder if Titania be awaked ; Then , what it was that next came in her eye , Which she must dote on in extremity . 1 " I shall desire ...
... tongue ; bring him silently . [ Exeunt . SCENE II . Another Part of the Wood . Enter OBERON . Obe . I wonder if Titania be awaked ; Then , what it was that next came in her eye , Which she must dote on in extremity . 1 " I shall desire ...
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... tongue Than thine , thou serpent , never adder stung . Dem . You spend your passion on a misprised 2 mood . I am not guilty of Lysander's blood ; Nor is he dead , for aught that I can tell . Her . I pray thee , tell me then that he is ...
... tongue Than thine , thou serpent , never adder stung . Dem . You spend your passion on a misprised 2 mood . I am not guilty of Lysander's blood ; Nor is he dead , for aught that I can tell . Her . I pray thee , tell me then that he is ...
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... tongue ? Fie , fie ! you counterfeit , you puppet , you ! Her . Puppet ! Why so ? Why so ? Ay , that way goes the game . Now I perceive that she hath made compare Between our statures ; she hath urged her height , And with her personage ...
... tongue ? Fie , fie ! you counterfeit , you puppet , you ! Her . Puppet ! Why so ? Why so ? Ay , that way goes the game . Now I perceive that she hath made compare Between our statures ; she hath urged her height , And with her personage ...
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Page 289 - With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound : last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness, and mere oblivion ; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Page 20 - 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 273 - The seasons' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, — This is no flattery : these are counsellors, That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 165 - 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 175 - If to do, were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.