The Works of William Shakespeare: The Plays Edited from the Folio of MDCXXIII, with Various Readings from All the Editions and All the Commentators, Notes, Introductory Remarks, a Historical Sketch of the Text, an Account of the Rise and Progress of the English Drama, a Memoir of the Poet, and an Essay Upon His Genius, Volumes 3-4Little, Brown, 1889 |
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... winds And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be , worse than worst , Of those that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine , howling ! - ' tis too horrible . The weariest and most loathed worldly life ...
... winds And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be , worse than worst , Of those that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine , howling ! - ' tis too horrible . The weariest and most loathed worldly life ...
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Angelo Antipholus Bassanio Beat Benedick better Bianca Birone Boyet brother Claud Claudio Collier's folio comedy Comedy of Errors Costard daughter Demetrius Dogb dost doth Dromio ducats Duke Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair father Folio and quarto fool Friar gentle Gentlemen of Verona give grace Gremio hath hear heart Heaven Hermia Hero honour Hortensio Isab Kate Kath King lady Leon Leonato look lord Love's Labour's Lost Lucentio Lucio Lysander maid marry master means Merchant of Venice merry misprint mistress Moth never night original Padua passage Pedro Petruchio play Pompey pray Prince Puck Pyramus Robin Goodfellow Rosalind SCENE second folio Shakespeare's day Shylock Signior speak speech Steevens swear sweet tell thee Theseus thou art tongue Tranio Venice wife word
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Page 439 - When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Page 304 - With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances * ; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, 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. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness, and mere oblivion ; Sans teeth, sans...
Page 291 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty. For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood ; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility ; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly ; let me go with you ; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 299 - 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.
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Page 21 - Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!
Page 286 - 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.' Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head : And this our life exempt from public haunt Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones and good in...
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Page 303 - 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 cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lin'd, With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose well...
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