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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... true con- tract , I got possession of Julietta's bed : You know the lady ; she is fast my wife , Save that we do the denunciation lack Of outward order : this we came not to , Only for propagation of a dower ' Remaining in the coffer of ...
... true con- tract , I got possession of Julietta's bed : You know the lady ; she is fast my wife , Save that we do the denunciation lack Of outward order : this we came not to , Only for propagation of a dower ' Remaining in the coffer of ...
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... true friar . More reasons for this action , At our more leisure shall I render you ; Only , this one : -Lord Angelo is precise ; Stands at a guard with envy ; scarce confesses That his blood flows , or that his appetite Is more to bread ...
... true friar . More reasons for this action , At our more leisure shall I render you ; Only , this one : -Lord Angelo is precise ; Stands at a guard with envy ; scarce confesses That his blood flows , or that his appetite Is more to bread ...
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... true . I would not , though ' tis my familiar sin With maids to seem the lapwing , and to jest , Tongue far from heart , play with all virgins so : 1 Sir , make me not your story . ] i . e . " Do not make me your story or jest , " to ...
... true . I would not , though ' tis my familiar sin With maids to seem the lapwing , and to jest , Tongue far from heart , play with all virgins so : 1 Sir , make me not your story . ] i . e . " Do not make me your story or jest , " to ...
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... true - meant design . Upon his place , And with full line of his authority , Governs lord Angelo ; a man whose blood Is very snow - broth ; one who never feels The wanton stings and motions of the sense , But doth rebate and blunt his ...
... true - meant design . Upon his place , And with full line of his authority , Governs lord Angelo ; a man whose blood Is very snow - broth ; one who never feels The wanton stings and motions of the sense , But doth rebate and blunt his ...
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... true ? Elb . O thou caitiff ! O thou varlet ! O thou wicked Hannibal ! I respected with her , before I was married to her ? —If ever I was respected with her , or she with me , let not your worship think me the poor duke's officer ...
... true ? Elb . O thou caitiff ! O thou varlet ! O thou wicked Hannibal ! I respected with her , before I was married to her ? —If ever I was respected with her , or she with me , let not your worship think me the poor duke's officer ...
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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...