Measure for measure. Troilus and CressidaHarper & brothers, 1884 |
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... answer to her brother's base proposal . Yet she who would not stoop to wrong , dared for the sake of Mariana to bear the imputation of it . She had no care for the world's opinion , so that the deed appeared not foul in the truth of her ...
... answer to her brother's base proposal . Yet she who would not stoop to wrong , dared for the sake of Mariana to bear the imputation of it . She had no care for the world's opinion , so that the deed appeared not foul in the truth of her ...
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... answer him . IO [ Exit . Isabella . Peace and prosperity ! Who is ' t that calls ? Enter LUCIO . Lucio . Hail , virgin , if you be , as those cheek - roses Proclaim you are no less ! Can you so stead me As bring me to the sight of ...
... answer him . IO [ Exit . Isabella . Peace and prosperity ! Who is ' t that calls ? Enter LUCIO . Lucio . Hail , virgin , if you be , as those cheek - roses Proclaim you are no less ! Can you so stead me As bring me to the sight of ...
Page 53
... answer none ; And some condemned for a fault alone . Enter ELBOW , and Officers with FROTH and POMPEY . 40 Elbow . Come , bring them away . If these be good people in a commonweal that do nothing but use their abuses in common houses ...
... answer none ; And some condemned for a fault alone . Enter ELBOW , and Officers with FROTH and POMPEY . 40 Elbow . Come , bring them away . If these be good people in a commonweal that do nothing but use their abuses in common houses ...
Page 63
... answer'd for his deed ; now ' t is awake , Takes note of what is done , and , like a prophet , Looks in a glass ... answering one foul wrong , Lives not to act another . Be satisfied ; Your brother dies to - morrow ; be content . ICO ...
... answer'd for his deed ; now ' t is awake , Takes note of what is done , and , like a prophet , Looks in a glass ... answering one foul wrong , Lives not to act another . Be satisfied ; Your brother dies to - morrow ; be content . ICO ...
Page 70
... Answer to this : I , now the voice of the recorded law , Pronounce a sentence on your brother's life ; Might there not be a charity in sin To save this brother's life ? Isabella . Please you to do ' t , I'll take it as a peril to my ...
... Answer to this : I , now the voice of the recorded law , Pronounce a sentence on your brother's life ; Might there not be a charity in sin To save this brother's life ? Isabella . Please you to do ' t , I'll take it as a peril to my ...
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1st folio Accented Achilles Æneas Agamemnon Ajax Andromache Angelo Antenor beauty blood brother Calchas Capell Cassandra character CHIG Clarke Claudio Coll conjectures Cymb death Deiphobus Diomed Diomedes doth Duke early eds editors Eneas Enter Escalus Exeunt Exit eyes fair fight folio fool friar give grace Grecian Greeks Hanmer reads hath hear heart heaven Hector Helen honour Isabella Johnson Jove king kiss Lear lord Lucio Macb Malone Mariana meaning Measure for Measure Menelaus Myrmidons Neoptolemus Nestor night noble noun Pandarus Paris passage Patroclus play Pompey Pope reads praise pray Priam prince Provost quarto quarto reading Rich RSITY SCENE Schmidt sense Servant Shakespeare Shakspere soul speak spirit strange sweet sword tell tent thee Theo Thersites thing thou art thought to-morrow Troilus and Cressida Trojan Troy true trumpet truth Ulysses UNIV Warb what's word worth
Popular passages
Page 78 - 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 regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Page 105 - As fast as they are made , forgot as soon As done. Perseverance , dear my lord , Keeps honour bright: to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion , like a rusty mail In monumental mockery.
Page 185 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 64 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; Nothing but thunder. Merciful heaven ! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle...
Page 22 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy...
Page 22 - 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 50 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Page 51 - 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 171 - ... the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself...
Page 160 - Seals of love, but seal'd in vain. Hide, oh, hide those hills of snow Which thy frozen bosom bears, On whose tops the pinks that grow, Are of those that April wears. But first set my poor heart free, Bound in those icy chains by thee.