The Family Shakspeare ... in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text: But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, 1825 |
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... serve me to run from this Jew , my master : The fiend is at mine elbow ; and tempts me , saying to me , Gobbo , Launcelot Gobbo , good Launcelot , or good Gobbo , or good Launcelot Gobbo , use your legs , take the start , run away : My ...
... serve me to run from this Jew , my master : The fiend is at mine elbow ; and tempts me , saying to me , Gobbo , Launcelot Gobbo , good Launcelot , or good Gobbo , or good Launcelot Gobbo , use your legs , take the start , run away : My ...
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... serve Laun . Indeed , the short and the long is , I serve the Jew , and I have a desire , as my father shall specify , Gob . His master and he , ( saving your worship's reverence , ) are scarce cater - cousins : Laun . To be brief , the ...
... serve Laun . Indeed , the short and the long is , I serve the Jew , and I have a desire , as my father shall specify , Gob . His master and he , ( saving your worship's reverence , ) are scarce cater - cousins : Laun . To be brief , the ...
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... Serve you , sir . Gob . This is the very defect of the matter , sir . Bass . I know thee well , thou hast obtain'd thy suit : Shylock , thy master , spoke with me this day , And hath preferr'd thee , if it be preferment , To leave a ...
... Serve you , sir . Gob . This is the very defect of the matter , sir . Bass . I know thee well , thou hast obtain'd thy suit : Shylock , thy master , spoke with me this day , And hath preferr'd thee , if it be preferment , To leave a ...
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... serves . Did I deserve no more than a fool's head ? Is that my prize ? are my deserts no better ? Por . To offend , and judge , are distinct offices , And of opposed natures . Ar . What is here ? The fire seven times tried this ; Seven ...
... serves . Did I deserve no more than a fool's head ? Is that my prize ? are my deserts no better ? Por . To offend , and judge , are distinct offices , And of opposed natures . Ar . What is here ? The fire seven times tried this ; Seven ...
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... serve in the meat , and we will come in to dinner . Laun . For the table , sir , it shall be served in ; for the meat , sir , it shall be covered ; for your coming in to dinner , sir , why , let it be as humours and con- ceits shall ...
... serve in the meat , and we will come in to dinner . Laun . For the table , sir , it shall be served in ; for the meat , sir , it shall be covered ; for your coming in to dinner , sir , why , let it be as humours and con- ceits shall ...
Common terms and phrases
Antonio art thou Baptista Bass Bassanio BERTRAM better Bian Bianca Bion BIONDELLO brother comes Count daughter doth ducats Duke F Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair Farewell father fool Forest of Arden fortune Ganymede gentle gentleman give Gratiano Grumio hath hear heart heaven hither honour Hortensio husband Jaques Jessica Kate Kath KATHARINA King knave lady LAFEU Laun Launcelot look lord Lorenzo lov'd Lucentio madam maid marry master mistress musick Narbon Nerissa never Orlando Padua Parolles Petruchio Phebe Pisa Portia pr'ythee pray ring Rosalind Rousillon Salan Salar SCENE Servant Shylock Signior Sirrah speak swear sweet tell thank thee There's thine thing thou art thou hast Touch Tranio unto Venice Vincentio What's wife withal word young youth
Popular passages
Page 9 - 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.
Page 74 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins; Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we...
Page 120 - With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound.
Page 116 - twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour, we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale.
Page 6 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 75 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils : The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Page 103 - 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 64 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, — That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy ; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page 40 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? revenge ; If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Page 69 - So please my lord the duke, and all the court, To quit the fine for one half of his goods; I am content, so he will let me have The other half in use...