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Page xxxviii
As for his jingling sometimes , and playing upon words , it was the common vice
of the age he liv'd in : And if we find it in the pulpit , made use of as an ornament
to the Sermons of some of the gravest Divines of those times ; perhaps it may not
...
As for his jingling sometimes , and playing upon words , it was the common vice
of the age he liv'd in : And if we find it in the pulpit , made use of as an ornament
to the Sermons of some of the gravest Divines of those times ; perhaps it may not
...
Page xxxix
His Tales were seldom invented , but rather taken either from true History , or
Novels and Romances : And he commonly made use of ' em in that order , with
those Incidents , and that extent of time in which he found ' em in the Authors from
( a ) ...
His Tales were seldom invented , but rather taken either from true History , or
Novels and Romances : And he commonly made use of ' em in that order , with
those Incidents , and that extent of time in which he found ' em in the Authors from
( a ) ...
Page xliv
in this Margent ; And we have likewise impaled the same with the ancient Arms of
the said Arden of Wellingcote ; signifying thereby , that it may and shall be lawful
for the faid John Shakefpere , Gent . to bear and use the same Shield of Arms ...
in this Margent ; And we have likewise impaled the same with the ancient Arms of
the said Arden of Wellingcote ; signifying thereby , that it may and shall be lawful
for the faid John Shakefpere , Gent . to bear and use the same Shield of Arms ...
Page 4
You are a ccunsellor ; if you can command these elements to silence , and work
the peace of the present , we will not hand a rope more ; use your authority . If
you cannot , give thanks you have liv'd so long , and make your self ready in your
...
You are a ccunsellor ; if you can command these elements to silence , and work
the peace of the present , we will not hand a rope more ; use your authority . If
you cannot , give thanks you have liv'd so long , and make your self ready in your
...
Page 22
... The wreck of all my friends , and this man's threats , To whom I am subdu'd ,
are but light to me , Might I but through my prison once a day Behold this maid :
all corners else o ' th ' earth Let liberty make use of ; space enough Have I , in
such ...
... The wreck of all my friends , and this man's threats , To whom I am subdu'd ,
are but light to me , Might I but through my prison once a day Behold this maid :
all corners else o ' th ' earth Let liberty make use of ; space enough Have I , in
such ...
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Page 41 - The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning ! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no.
Page 138 - Now it is the time of night, That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide.
Page 501 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours...
Page 313 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page 127 - 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: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
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Page xxxi - His name is printed, as the custom was in those times, amongst those of the other players, before some old plays, but without any particular account of what sort of parts he...
Page xxx - In this kind of settlement he continued for some time, till an extravagance that he was guilty of forced him both out of his country, and that way of living which he had taken up...
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| Title | The Works of Shakespear: In Six Volumes, Volume 1 The Works of Shakespear: In Six Volumes, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Sir Thomas Hanmer |
| Publisher | J. and P. Knapton, 1745 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 10 Jul 2007 |
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