The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the corrected copy left by G. Steevens, with glossarial notes, Volume 1 |
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... lives , and their most vigorous talents , to revive his memory , and illustrate his writings . It is equally unfortunate , that we know as little of the progress of his writings , as of his personal history . The industry of his ...
... lives , and their most vigorous talents , to revive his memory , and illustrate his writings . It is equally unfortunate , that we know as little of the progress of his writings , as of his personal history . The industry of his ...
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... lives by drunkards.- This wide - chapped rascal ; - ' Would , thou might'st lie drowning , The washing of ten tides ! Gon . He'll be hanged yet ; Though every drop of water swear against it , Aud gape at wid'st to glut him . [ A ...
... lives by drunkards.- This wide - chapped rascal ; - ' Would , thou might'st lie drowning , The washing of ten tides ! Gon . He'll be hanged yet ; Though every drop of water swear against it , Aud gape at wid'st to glut him . [ A ...
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... lives in thy mind ? What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysmt of time ? If thou remember'st aught , ere thou cam'st here , How thou cam'st here , thou may'st . Mira . Pro . Twelve years since , But that I do not . Miranda ...
... lives in thy mind ? What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysmt of time ? If thou remember'st aught , ere thou cam'st here , How thou cam'st here , thou may'st . Mira . Pro . Twelve years since , But that I do not . Miranda ...
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... live . Seb . Of that there's none , or little . Gon . How lusht and lusty the grass looks ! how green ! Ant . The ground , indeed , is tawny . • Temperature . + Rank . Seb . With an eye * of green in't . 24 Act II . TEMPEST ,
... live . Seb . Of that there's none , or little . Gon . How lusht and lusty the grass looks ! how green ! Ant . The ground , indeed , is tawny . • Temperature . + Rank . Seb . With an eye * of green in't . 24 Act II . TEMPEST ,
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... live ; I saw him beat the surges under him , And ride upon their backs ; he trod the water , Whose enmity he flung aside , and breasted The surge most swoln that met him : his bold head ' Bove the contentious waves he kept , and oar'd ...
... live ; I saw him beat the surges under him , And ride upon their backs ; he trod the water , Whose enmity he flung aside , and breasted The surge most swoln that met him : his bold head ' Bove the contentious waves he kept , and oar'd ...
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Page 25 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Page 353 - 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...
Page 71 - Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please. Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant; And my ending is despair Unless I be reliev'd by prayer, Which pierces so that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.
Page 352 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 61 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune...
Page 364 - Be absolute for death ; either death, or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with Life : If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep...
Page 16 - would it had been done ! Thou didst prevent me ; I had peopled else This isle with Calibans. Pro. Abhorred slave ! Which any print of goodness will not take, Being capable of all ill ! I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour One thing or other : when thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but would'st gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known...
Page 323 - When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day.
Page 366 - And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 61 - Some heavenly music, (which even now I do,) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.