The Works of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost ; Midsummer night's dream ; Merchant of VeniceWhittaker & Company, 1842 |
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... King , makes a progress to ascertain the truth of certain charges against Promos Shakespeare lays his scene in Vienna , and represents the Duke as retiring from public view , and placing his power in the hands of two deputies ...
... King , makes a progress to ascertain the truth of certain charges against Promos Shakespeare lays his scene in Vienna , and represents the Duke as retiring from public view , and placing his power in the hands of two deputies ...
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... King , Quit their own part , and in obsequious fondness Crowd to his presence , where their untaught love Must needs appear offence . " Steevens quotes a passage from " a True Narration of the Enter- tainment " of the King on his way ...
... King , Quit their own part , and in obsequious fondness Crowd to his presence , where their untaught love Must needs appear offence . " Steevens quotes a passage from " a True Narration of the Enter- tainment " of the King on his way ...
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... king of Hungary , why then , all the dukes fall upon the king . 1 Gent . Heaven grant us its peace , but not the king of Hungary's ! 2 Gent . Amen . Lucio . Thou concludest like the sanctimonious pirate , that went to sea with the ten ...
... king of Hungary , why then , all the dukes fall upon the king . 1 Gent . Heaven grant us its peace , but not the king of Hungary's ! 2 Gent . Amen . Lucio . Thou concludest like the sanctimonious pirate , that went to sea with the ten ...
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... King Darius " the Vice is expressly called " Iniquity , " but he went by various appellations . Ini- quity was not always the Vice or Fool of the elder stage , but a distinct character , for in " Histriomastix , " 1610 , the following ...
... King Darius " the Vice is expressly called " Iniquity , " but he went by various appellations . Ini- quity was not always the Vice or Fool of the elder stage , but a distinct character , for in " Histriomastix , " 1610 , the following ...
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... king's crown , nor the deputed sword , The marshal's truncheon , nor the judge's robe , Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does . If he had been as you , and you as he , You would have slipt like him ; but he , like ...
... king's crown , nor the deputed sword , The marshal's truncheon , nor the judge's robe , Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does . If he had been as you , and you as he , You would have slipt like him ; but he , like ...
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Page 453 - The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact : One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, 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.
Page 450 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was.
Page 23 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page 34 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does.
Page 382 - When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo...
Page 52 - And shamed life a hateful. Claud. 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 region of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison...
Page 249 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours. So will it fare with Claudio. When he shall hear she died upon his words, Th...