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... shall beftrew The union of your bed with weeds fo loathly , That you shall hate it both . Therefore take heed , As Hymen's lamps fhall light you- Ferdinand's reply . As I hope For quiet days , fair iffue , and long life , With fuch love ...
... shall beftrew The union of your bed with weeds fo loathly , That you shall hate it both . Therefore take heed , As Hymen's lamps fhall light you- Ferdinand's reply . As I hope For quiet days , fair iffue , and long life , With fuch love ...
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... shall dissolve , And , like this unfubftantial pageant faded , Leave not a rack + behind ! We are fuch fluff As dreams are made of , and our little life Is rounded with a fleep . ACT V. SCENE I. The feelings and fentiments of humanity ...
... shall dissolve , And , like this unfubftantial pageant faded , Leave not a rack + behind ! We are fuch fluff As dreams are made of , and our little life Is rounded with a fleep . ACT V. SCENE I. The feelings and fentiments of humanity ...
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... shall not myself , One of their kind , that relifh all as sharply , Paffion'd as they , be kindlier moved than thou art ? Though with their high wrongs I am ftruck to the quick , Yet with my nobler reason , ' gainft my fury Do I take ...
... shall not myself , One of their kind , that relifh all as sharply , Paffion'd as they , be kindlier moved than thou art ? Though with their high wrongs I am ftruck to the quick , Yet with my nobler reason , ' gainft my fury Do I take ...
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... Shall not trouble my readers with the Fable of this piece , as I can fee no general moral that can be deduced from the Argument ; nor , as I hinted before * , is there much fentiment to be collected even from the Dialogue . But whatever ...
... Shall not trouble my readers with the Fable of this piece , as I can fee no general moral that can be deduced from the Argument ; nor , as I hinted before * , is there much fentiment to be collected even from the Dialogue . But whatever ...
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... shall fee no such thing . Hippelita . He fays , they can do nothing in this kind . Thefeus : The kinder ave , to give them thanks for nothing , Our fport fhall be , to take what they mistake ; And what poor duty cannet de , Noble ...
... shall fee no such thing . Hippelita . He fays , they can do nothing in this kind . Thefeus : The kinder ave , to give them thanks for nothing , Our fport fhall be , to take what they mistake ; And what poor duty cannet de , Noble ...
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Page 153 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 85 - 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 44 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 292 - That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity; And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Page 183 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 457 - I'll look up; My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder?
Page 399 - How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that? And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with.
Page 465 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 44 - ... palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 40 - Because you are not merry: and 'twere as easy For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry, Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time: Some that will evermore peep through their eyes And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper, And other of such vinegar aspect That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.