The Works of William ShakespeareJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1867 - 1075 pages |
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... Dost Mohammed Khan - Violations of en- gagements - The army arrives at Kalat - i - Ghilzai — Joined by Abdulrashid Khan - Capture of Ghazni - Proposals of Dost Mohammed refused - Execution of Afghan pri- soners - Flight of the Amir ...
... Dost Mohammed Khan - Violations of en- gagements - The army arrives at Kalat - i - Ghilzai — Joined by Abdulrashid Khan - Capture of Ghazni - Proposals of Dost Mohammed refused - Execution of Afghan pri- soners - Flight of the Amir ...
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... Dost's people , " became a proverb with the miserable subjects of the neighboring rajahs . Prosperous at home , and successful in his wars abroad , Hyder - Dost found himself , at twenty- one , the master of a powerful kingdom , and the ...
... Dost's people , " became a proverb with the miserable subjects of the neighboring rajahs . Prosperous at home , and successful in his wars abroad , Hyder - Dost found himself , at twenty- one , the master of a powerful kingdom , and the ...
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... Dost was not the man to forestall his undertakings by imprudence . He laid aside his crown and his sword ; and , king and war- rior as he was , daily sat like a child at the feet of Dr. Toler , and toiled for knowledge . Such was Hyder - ...
... Dost was not the man to forestall his undertakings by imprudence . He laid aside his crown and his sword ; and , king and war- rior as he was , daily sat like a child at the feet of Dr. Toler , and toiled for knowledge . Such was Hyder - ...
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... Dost Mohammed feared that he was ill , and close to dying , and he called his fifty - four sons to him . They came from the far peaceful corners of the kingdom of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan to the great city he had caused to be built ...
... Dost Mohammed feared that he was ill , and close to dying , and he called his fifty - four sons to him . They came from the far peaceful corners of the kingdom of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan to the great city he had caused to be built ...
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Page 190 - If you prick us, do we not bleed ? If you tickle us, do we not laugh ? If you poison us, do we not die ? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility — revenge ? If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Page 345 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 8 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Page 360 - This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian service and true chivalry...
Page 383 - So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off. I'll so offend, to make offence a skill; Redeeming time when men think least I will [Exit.
Page 174 - Lovers, and madmen, have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt...
Page 287 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it ! My part of death, no one so true Did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strown ; Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown : A thousand thousand sighs to save, Lay me, O, where Sad true lover never find my grave, To weep there ! Duke.