The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr., embracing a life of the poet and notes, Volume 2 |
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William Shakespeare. At a fair vestal , ' throned by the west ; And loosed his love - shaft smartly from his bow , As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts ; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of ...
William Shakespeare. At a fair vestal , ' throned by the west ; And loosed his love - shaft smartly from his bow , As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts ; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of ...
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... fair Hermia ? The one I'll slay , the other slayeth me . Thou told'st me , they were stolen into this wood , And here am I , and wood ' within this wood , Because I cannot meet with Hermia . Hence , get thee gone , and follow me no more ...
... fair Hermia ? The one I'll slay , the other slayeth me . Thou told'st me , they were stolen into this wood , And here am I , and wood ' within this wood , Because I cannot meet with Hermia . Hence , get thee gone , and follow me no more ...
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... Fair love , you faint with wandering in the wood ; And to speak troth , I have forgot our way ; We'll rest us , Hermia , if you think it good , And tarry for the comfort of the day . Her . Be it so , Lysander ; find you out a bed , For ...
... Fair love , you faint with wandering in the wood ; And to speak troth , I have forgot our way ; We'll rest us , Hermia , if you think it good , And tarry for the comfort of the day . Her . Be it so , Lysander ; find you out a bed , For ...
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... fair ladies , I would wish you , or , I would request you , or , I would entreat you , not to fear , not to tremble : my life for yours . If you think I come hither as a lion , it were pity of my life . No , I am no such thing ; I am a ...
... fair ladies , I would wish you , or , I would request you , or , I would entreat you , not to fear , not to tremble : my life for yours . If you think I come hither as a lion , it were pity of my life . No , I am no such thing ; I am a ...
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... never been regularly bestowed on their bodies . 3 Cephalus , the mighty hunter , and paramour of Aurora , was here prob ably meant Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams , Turns into SC . II . ] 47 MIDSUMMER - NIGHT'S DREAM .
... never been regularly bestowed on their bodies . 3 Cephalus , the mighty hunter , and paramour of Aurora , was here prob ably meant Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams , Turns into SC . II . ] 47 MIDSUMMER - NIGHT'S DREAM .
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Page 289 - With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound : last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness, and mere oblivion ; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Page 20 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 273 - The seasons' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, — This is no flattery : these are counsellors, That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 165 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!
Page 175 - 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.