The Works of Shakespeare: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions: Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing. Midsummer-night's dream. Love's labour's lostEstes and Lauriat, 1883 - English drama |
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... passage of darkness by printing task instead of that , — a correction which he found written by some unknown hand in an old copy of the play belonging to Mr. Tunno . But if we under- stand that as referring to the commission , which the ...
... passage of darkness by printing task instead of that , — a correction which he found written by some unknown hand in an old copy of the play belonging to Mr. Tunno . But if we under- stand that as referring to the commission , which the ...
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... passage in St. Paul's Epist . to the Romans , ch . ix . v . 15-18 : “ I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy . " 3 To ravin is to devour voraciously . Ravenous is still in use from the same original . 4 So , in Chapman's Revenge ...
... passage in St. Paul's Epist . to the Romans , ch . ix . v . 15-18 : “ I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy . " 3 To ravin is to devour voraciously . Ravenous is still in use from the same original . 4 So , in Chapman's Revenge ...
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... passage is usually printed thus : " And yet my nature never in the sight To do it slander . " The words ambush and strike home show the image of a fight to have been in the Poet's mind . As the text stands , the speaker's purpose ...
... passage is usually printed thus : " And yet my nature never in the sight To do it slander . " The words ambush and strike home show the image of a fight to have been in the Poet's mind . As the text stands , the speaker's purpose ...
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... passage setting forth the virtues of sack : " It ascends me . into the brain , " & c . So that the meaning is , - " Make not your tale , invent not your fiction . " Malone improved the passage thus : " Sir , mock me not , - -your story ...
... passage setting forth the virtues of sack : " It ascends me . into the brain , " & c . So that the meaning is , - " Make not your tale , invent not your fiction . " Malone improved the passage thus : " Sir , mock me not , - -your story ...
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... passage , we venture to accept it . It was first made by Rowe . But there is a further question , whether brake , allow- ing that to be the right word , here means an engine of war or tor- ture , or a snare , or a bramble ; the word ...
... passage , we venture to accept it . It was first made by Rowe . But there is a further question , whether brake , allow- ing that to be the right word , here means an engine of war or tor- ture , or a snare , or a bramble ; the word ...
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Popular passages
Page 71 - 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...
Page 458 - 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 267 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 283 - 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 51 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 275 - Swifter than the moon's sphere ; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be : In their gold coats spots you see ; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours : I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Page 336 - Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the scritch-owl, scritching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth its sprite, In the church-way paths to glide...
Page 459 - When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Page 328 - 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. Such tricks hath strong imagination ; That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear ! Hip.
Page 87 - Take, O, take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn: But my kisses bring again Bring again; Seals of love, but seal'd in vain, Sealed in vain.