The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With Historical and Analytical Prefaces, Comments, Critical and Explanatory Notes, Glossaries, and a Life of Shakespeare, Volume 7J. A. Hill, 1901 - English drama |
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... means devoid of merit ; but so inferior is it to the prior drama , as to make it disgraceful to British taste for one hundred years that the former absolutely banished the latter from the stage . A French critic calls Great Britain the ...
... means devoid of merit ; but so inferior is it to the prior drama , as to make it disgraceful to British taste for one hundred years that the former absolutely banished the latter from the stage . A French critic calls Great Britain the ...
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... means in flesh . Iras . No , you shall paint when you are old . Char . Wrinkles forbid ! Alex . Vex not his prescience ; be attentive . Char . Hush ! Sooth . You shall be more beloving than beloved . Char . I had rather heat my liver ...
... means in flesh . Iras . No , you shall paint when you are old . Char . Wrinkles forbid ! Alex . Vex not his prescience ; be attentive . Char . Hush ! Sooth . You shall be more beloving than beloved . Char . I had rather heat my liver ...
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... mean you , madam ? I have made no fault . Char . Good madam , keep yourself within yourself : The man is innocent . Cleo . Some innocents ' scape not the thunderbolt . Melt Egypt into Nile ! and kindly creatures Turn all to serpents ...
... mean you , madam ? I have made no fault . Char . Good madam , keep yourself within yourself : The man is innocent . Cleo . Some innocents ' scape not the thunderbolt . Melt Egypt into Nile ! and kindly creatures Turn all to serpents ...
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... mean , if dearth 20 Or foison follow : the higher Nilus swells , The more it promises : as it ebbs , the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain , And shortly comes to harvest . Lep . You've strange serpents there . Ant . Ay ...
... mean , if dearth 20 Or foison follow : the higher Nilus swells , The more it promises : as it ebbs , the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain , And shortly comes to harvest . Lep . You've strange serpents there . Ant . Ay ...
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... mean , if on both parts This be not cherish'd . 30 Ant . Make me not offended In your distrust . Cas . I have said . Ant . You shall not find , Though you be therein curious , the least cause For what you seem to fear : so , the gods ...
... mean , if on both parts This be not cherish'd . 30 Ant . Make me not offended In your distrust . Cas . I have said . Ant . You shall not find , Though you be therein curious , the least cause For what you seem to fear : so , the gods ...
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Page 41 - Out of my grief' and my impatience, — Answer'd neglectingly, I know not what ; He should, or he should not ; — for he made me mad, To see him shine so brisk, and smell so sweet, And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman, Of guns, and drums, and wounds, (God save the mark !) And telling me the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti, for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, That villainous salt-petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good...
Page 116 - Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : — But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live or bear no life, The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up...
Page 128 - The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord ! O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n : young boys and girls Are level now with men ; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.
Page 41 - scapes i' the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven. It was my hint to speak, such was the process; And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 41 - She:d come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse : which I observing, Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels she had something heard, But not intentively.
Page 51 - Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It...
Page 46 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Page 108 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 57 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 51 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them ; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.