Gleanings from the Comedies of ShakespeareW. P. Nimmo, 1868 - 128 pages |
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... sighs ; one fading moment's mirth , With twenty watchful , weary , tedious nights : If haply won , perhaps , a hapless gain ; If lost , why then a grievous labour won ; However , but a folly bought with wit , Or else a wit by folly ...
... sighs ; one fading moment's mirth , With twenty watchful , weary , tedious nights : If haply won , perhaps , a hapless gain ; If lost , why then a grievous labour won ; However , but a folly bought with wit , Or else a wit by folly ...
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... : first , you have learned , like Sir Proteus , to wreath your arms like a malcontent ; to relish a love- song , like a robin - redbreast ; to walk alone , like one that had the pestilence ; to sigh , COMEDIES OF SHAKESPEARE . 9.
... : first , you have learned , like Sir Proteus , to wreath your arms like a malcontent ; to relish a love- song , like a robin - redbreast ; to walk alone , like one that had the pestilence ; to sigh , COMEDIES OF SHAKESPEARE . 9.
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William Shakespeare. like one that had the pestilence ; to sigh , like a schoolboy that had lost his A B C ; to weep , like a young wench that had buried her grandam ; to fast , like one that takes diet ; to watch , like one that fears ...
William Shakespeare. like one that had the pestilence ; to sigh , like a schoolboy that had lost his A B C ; to weep , like a young wench that had buried her grandam ; to fast , like one that takes diet ; to watch , like one that fears ...
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... Sighing like furnace , with a woful ballad Made to his mistress ' eyebrow . Then a soldier , Full of strange oaths , and bearded like the pard , Jealous in honour , sudden and quick in quarrel , Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the ...
... Sighing like furnace , with a woful ballad Made to his mistress ' eyebrow . Then a soldier , Full of strange oaths , and bearded like the pard , Jealous in honour , sudden and quick in quarrel , Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the ...
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... sighs and tears ; - It is to be all made of faith and service ; - It is to be all made of fantasy , All made of passion , and all made of wishes , All adoration , duty , and observance , All humbleness , all patience , and impatience ...
... sighs and tears ; - It is to be all made of faith and service ; - It is to be all made of fantasy , All made of passion , and all made of wishes , All adoration , duty , and observance , All humbleness , all patience , and impatience ...
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ADAGES AND APOTHEGMS Art thou beard beauty BENEDICK betimes better blood blow BOTTOM'S DREAM brains brave canker Clown cockle comes commend counsel Cuckoo Cupid curst devil dost doth drink ducdàme Duke eyes fair FALSTAFF fancy fantastical faults fear fellow fire folly fool forswear forsworn friends grace grief hath hear heart heaven heigh hither honest honour humour Jaques labour Lie direct live lord Love's lover lute man's marriage married master melancholy mend merrier merry Methought mirth motley motley fool nature ne'er never night numbers oaths Orlando ORPHEUS Pedro play poor Proteus Puck rich Rosalind scape scorn Shakespeare sigh Silvia sing sleep soldier speak spleen sport strange sweet tell thee There's Theseus thing thou art To-whoo tongue Touchstone true truth twill valour vile Viola virtue virtuous weep wind wise withal woman women WOOING word young youth
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Page 73 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which his fair tongue, (conceit's expositor,) Delivers in such apt and gracious words.
Page 98 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...
Page 75 - It adds a precious seeing to the eye; A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind; A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, When the suspicious head of theft is...
Page 104 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat...
Page 114 - When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model ; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection ; Which if we find outweighs ability, What do we then but draw anew the model In fewer offices, or at least desist To build at all...
Page 75 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain, But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Page 43 - And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practice As full of labour as a wise man's art; For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fallen, quite taint their wit.
Page 21 - 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 80 - Tu-whit, tu-who ! a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's...
Page 79 - 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...