The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr., embracing a life of the poet and notes, Volume 2 |
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... fears , thus strong , Made senseless things begin to do them wrong ; For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch ; Some , sleeves ; some , hats ; from yielders all things catch . I led them on in this distracted fear , And left sweet ...
... fears , thus strong , Made senseless things begin to do them wrong ; For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch ; Some , sleeves ; some , hats ; from yielders all things catch . I led them on in this distracted fear , And left sweet ...
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... fear , hast given me cause to curse . If thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep , Being o'er shoes in blood , plunge in the deep , And kill me too . The sun was not so true unto the day , As he to me . Would he have stolen away From ...
... fear , hast given me cause to curse . If thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep , Being o'er shoes in blood , plunge in the deep , And kill me too . The sun was not so true unto the day , As he to me . Would he have stolen away From ...
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... fear lest day should look their shames upon , They wilfully themselves exile from light , And must for aye consort with black - browed night . Obe . But we are spirits of another sort . I with the Morning's love have oft made sport ...
... fear lest day should look their shames upon , They wilfully themselves exile from light , And must for aye consort with black - browed night . Obe . But we are spirits of another sort . I with the Morning's love have oft made sport ...
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... fear no enmity ? Lys . My lord , I shall reply amazedly , Half ' sleep , half waking . But as yet , I swear , I cannot truly say how I came here ; But , as I think , ( for truly would I speak , - And now I do bethink me , so it is , ) I ...
... fear no enmity ? Lys . My lord , I shall reply amazedly , Half ' sleep , half waking . But as yet , I swear , I cannot truly say how I came here ; But , as I think , ( for truly would I speak , - And now I do bethink me , so it is , ) I ...
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... fear , How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip . But all the story of the night told over , And all their minds transfigured so together , More witnesseth than fancy's images , And grows to something of great constancy ; But ...
... fear , How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip . But all the story of the night told over , And all their minds transfigured so together , More witnesseth than fancy's images , And grows to something of great constancy ; But ...
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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.