The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the corrected copy left by G. Steevens, with glossarial notes, Volume 2 |
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... bring you the length of Prester John's foot ; fetch you a hair off the great Cham's beard ; do you any embassage to the Pigmies , rather than hold three words ' conference with this harpy : You have no employment for me ? D. Pedro ...
... bring you the length of Prester John's foot ; fetch you a hair off the great Cham's beard ; do you any embassage to the Pigmies , rather than hold three words ' conference with this harpy : You have no employment for me ? D. Pedro ...
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... bring signior Benedick , and the lady Beatrice into a moun- tain of affection , the one with the other . I would fain have it a match ; and I doubt not but to fashion it , if you three will but minister such assistance as I shall give ...
... bring signior Benedick , and the lady Beatrice into a moun- tain of affection , the one with the other . I would fain have it a match ; and I doubt not but to fashion it , if you three will but minister such assistance as I shall give ...
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... bring them to see this , the very night before the intended wedding : for , in the mean time , I will so fashion the matter , that Hero shall be absent ; and there shall appear such seeming truth of Hero's disloyalty , that jealousy ...
... bring them to see this , the very night before the intended wedding : for , in the mean time , I will so fashion the matter , that Hero shall be absent ; and there shall appear such seeming truth of Hero's disloyalty , that jealousy ...
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... bring it hither to me in the orchard . Boy . I am here already , sir . Bene . I know that ; but I would have thee hence , and here again . [ Exit Boy . ] - I do much wonder , that one man , seeing how much another man is a fool when he ...
... bring it hither to me in the orchard . Boy . I am here already , sir . Bene . I know that ; but I would have thee hence , and here again . [ Exit Boy . ] - I do much wonder , that one man , seeing how much another man is a fool when he ...
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... bring you thither , my lord , if you'll vouchsafe me . D. Pedro . Nay , that would be as great a soil in the new gloss of your marriage , as to show a child his new coat , and forbid him to wear it . I will only be bold with Benedick ...
... bring you thither , my lord , if you'll vouchsafe me . D. Pedro . Nay , that would be as great a soil in the new gloss of your marriage , as to show a child his new coat , and forbid him to wear it . I will only be bold with Benedick ...
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Page 206 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Page 89 - 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 ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 316 - Nay, take my life and all ; pardon not that : You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 139 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was; man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.
Page 367 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Page 321 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
Page 286 - If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Page 368 - And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon...
Page 139 - 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 240 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...