Measure for measure. Merry wives of Windsor. Winter's taleHarper and brothers, 1895 - English drama (Comedy) |
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Antigonus AUTOLYCUS ballad Barnardine Bawd bear beseech Bohemia brother Camillo Claud Claudio CLEOMENES Clown daughter death Doctor Caius dost doth Duke Elbow Enter eringoes Escal Exeunt Exit fair fairies Falstaff father fault fear FLORIZEL friar Gent gentleman give hand hath hear heart Heaven HERMIONE Herne the hunter hither honest honour Host HUGH EVANS husband Isab ISABELLA king knave lady Leon Leontes look Lord Angelo Lucio maid marry Master Brook master doctor Master Slender Measure for Measure Mistress Anne Mistress Ford never night o'er oman pardon Paul Paulina PERDITA Pist POLIXENES Pompey poor pray prince Prithee Prov Provost queen Quick Re-enter Rugby SCENE Shal SHALLOW shalt Shep Sicilia Sir John Sir John Falstaff Slen speak sweet tell thee there's thing thou art to-morrow true What's wife Windsor Winter's Tale woman
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Page 31 - And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 32 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Page 24 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet ; For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; nothing but thunder.
Page 193 - O, Proserpina, For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets, dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady Most incident to maids...
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Page 70 - O my dread lord! I should be guiltier than my guiltiness, To think I can be undiscernible, When I perceive your grace, like power divine, Hath look'd upon my passes. Then, good prince, No longer session hold upon my shame, But let my trial be mine own confession: Immediate sentence then and sequent death Is all the grace I beg.
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Page 24 - Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Page 31 - Be absolute for death; either death, or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life,— If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep...
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