The Works of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost ; Midsummer night's dream ; Merchant of VeniceWhittaker & Company, 1842 |
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... breaks of ICE , and answer none , ] Thus the text stands in the old copies , which seems right ; the meaning being , that some escape without responsibility , even though the danger seem as imminent as when the ice breaks under them ...
... breaks of ICE , and answer none , ] Thus the text stands in the old copies , which seems right ; the meaning being , that some escape without responsibility , even though the danger seem as imminent as when the ice breaks under them ...
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... break of day , Lights that do mislead the morn : But my kisses bring again , bring again , Seals of love , but seal'd in vain , seal'd in vain . Mari . Break off thy song , and haste thee quick away : Here comes a man of comfort , whose ...
... break of day , Lights that do mislead the morn : But my kisses bring again , bring again , Seals of love , but seal'd in vain , seal'd in vain . Mari . Break off thy song , and haste thee quick away : Here comes a man of comfort , whose ...
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... break , And take her hence in horror . Mari . Isabel , Sweet Isabel , do yet but kneel by me : Hold up your hands , say nothing , I'll speak all . They say , best men are moulded out of faults , And , for the most , become much more the ...
... break , And take her hence in horror . Mari . Isabel , Sweet Isabel , do yet but kneel by me : Hold up your hands , say nothing , I'll speak all . They say , best men are moulded out of faults , And , for the most , become much more the ...
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... break off so , For we may pity , though not pardon thee . Æge . O , had the gods done so , I had not now Worthily term'd them merciless to us ! For , ere the ships could meet by twice five leagues , We were encounter'd by a mighty rock ...
... break off so , For we may pity , though not pardon thee . Æge . O , had the gods done so , I had not now Worthily term'd them merciless to us ! For , ere the ships could meet by twice five leagues , We were encounter'd by a mighty rock ...
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... break that merry sconce of yours , That stands on tricks when I am undispos'd . Where is the thousand marks thou had'st of me ? Dro . E. I have some marks of yours upon my pate ; Some of my mistress ' marks upon my shoulders , But not a ...
... break that merry sconce of yours , That stands on tricks when I am undispos'd . Where is the thousand marks thou had'st of me ? Dro . E. I have some marks of yours upon my pate ; Some of my mistress ' marks upon my shoulders , But not a ...
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Page 453 - 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.
Page 450 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was.
Page 23 - 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 34 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does.
Page 382 - When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo...
Page 52 - And shamed life a hateful. Claud. 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 region of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison...
Page 249 - 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. So will it fare with Claudio. When he shall hear she died upon his words, Th...