Select Plays; A Midsummer Night's DreamClarendon Press, 1879 - 147 pages |
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... hath beene sundry times publickely acted , by the Right honourable , the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants . Written by William Shakespeare . ' It was entered at Sta- tioners ' Hall on the 8th of October , and in the same year a pirated ...
... hath beene sundry times publickely acted , by the Right honourable , the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants . Written by William Shakespeare . ' It was entered at Sta- tioners ' Hall on the 8th of October , and in the same year a pirated ...
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... hath bowed the heauens , and come down amongst vs with more tokens and earnests of his wrath intended , then the agedst man of our land is able to recount of so small a time . For say , if euer the windes , since they blew one against ...
... hath bowed the heauens , and come down amongst vs with more tokens and earnests of his wrath intended , then the agedst man of our land is able to recount of so small a time . For say , if euer the windes , since they blew one against ...
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... hath beene powred downe vpon our heads , both with abundance and ( sauing to those that felt it ) with incredible violence ; the aire threatned our miseries with a blazing starre ; the pillers of the earth tottered in many whole ...
... hath beene powred downe vpon our heads , both with abundance and ( sauing to those that felt it ) with incredible violence ; the aire threatned our miseries with a blazing starre ; the pillers of the earth tottered in many whole ...
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... Hath rotted , ere his youth attain'd a beard . ' In this point alone there is such an important discrepancy that if Shakespeare referred to any particular season we may without doubt affirm it was not to the year 1594 , and there- fore ...
... Hath rotted , ere his youth attain'd a beard . ' In this point alone there is such an important discrepancy that if Shakespeare referred to any particular season we may without doubt affirm it was not to the year 1594 , and there- fore ...
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... hath my consent to marry her . Stand forth , Lysander : and , my gracious duke , This man hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child : Thou , thou , Lysander , thou hast given her rhymes And interchanged love - tokens with my child : Thou ...
... hath my consent to marry her . Stand forth , Lysander : and , my gracious duke , This man hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child : Thou , thou , Lysander , thou hast given her rhymes And interchanged love - tokens with my child : Thou ...
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Page 14 - No night is now with hymn or carol blest : Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger, washes all the air, That rheumatic diseases do abound : And thorough this distemperature we see The seasons alter : hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set.
Page 71 - That it should come to this! But two months dead - nay, not so much, not two So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Page 3 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Page 63 - Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud.
Page 71 - And strait conjunction with this sex ; for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake ; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness, but shall see her gain'd By a far worse ; or, if she love, withheld By parents ; or his happiest choice too late Shall meet, already link'd and wedlock-bound To a fell adversary, his hate or shame : Which infinite calamity shall cause To human life, and household peace confound.
Page 8 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
Page 69 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 14 - Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world, By their increase, now knows not which is which. And this same progeny of evils comes From our debate, from our dissension; We are their parents and original.
Page 28 - Be kind and courteous to this gentleman ; Hop in his walks, and gambol in his eyes ; Feed him with apricocks and dewberries, -. With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries. The honey-bags steal from the humble-bees, And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs, And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes...
Page 136 - And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder ? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I...