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Page 79
... fatire . Jaques , being accused of flander , Why who cries out on pride , fays , That can therein tax any private party ? Doth it not flow as hugely as the fea , Till that the very very means do ebb ? What woman in the city do I name ...
... fatire . Jaques , being accused of flander , Why who cries out on pride , fays , That can therein tax any private party ? Doth it not flow as hugely as the fea , Till that the very very means do ebb ? What woman in the city do I name ...
Page 88
... fatire upon mankind , by faying , what I am forry to repeat , that if we were to feek for honefty , we muft look for it , as the Clown hints , among the middle ranks of life . The punctilios of honour , with regard to the falfe bravery ...
... fatire upon mankind , by faying , what I am forry to repeat , that if we were to feek for honefty , we muft look for it , as the Clown hints , among the middle ranks of life . The punctilios of honour , with regard to the falfe bravery ...
Page 89
... fatire of Don Quixote came . abroad into the world in Shakespeare's time , perhaps he might have taken a hint for this piece of ridicule from that writing ; and Fletcher may have copied his raillery from him again . Malta is the only ...
... fatire of Don Quixote came . abroad into the world in Shakespeare's time , perhaps he might have taken a hint for this piece of ridicule from that writing ; and Fletcher may have copied his raillery from him again . Malta is the only ...
Page 325
... fatire , and ridicule , " Let high birth triumph ! What can be more great ? Nothing - but merit in a low fate . He was the fon of a butcher , Y 3 UNIVER , PAS . SCENE SCENE II . The angry Duke repeats his fpleen against [ 325 ]
... fatire , and ridicule , " Let high birth triumph ! What can be more great ? Nothing - but merit in a low fate . He was the fon of a butcher , Y 3 UNIVER , PAS . SCENE SCENE II . The angry Duke repeats his fpleen against [ 325 ]
Page 381
... fatire , and pro- perly distinguishes it from the bastard , or invidious kind of perfonal invective , ftiled the libel or lam- My free drift poon : Halts not particularly , & c . " SCENE II . Timon , upon hearing of his friend Ventidius ...
... fatire , and pro- perly distinguishes it from the bastard , or invidious kind of perfonal invective , ftiled the libel or lam- My free drift poon : Halts not particularly , & c . " SCENE II . Timon , upon hearing of his friend Ventidius ...
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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.