Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1847 |
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... Benedick and Beatrice , and the immortal Dogberry and Verges . The main object he always keeps in view is lively dramatic effect on the stage , and this is apparent , not only in his characters and dialogue , but in his plot and ...
... Benedick and Beatrice , and the immortal Dogberry and Verges . The main object he always keeps in view is lively dramatic effect on the stage , and this is apparent , not only in his characters and dialogue , but in his plot and ...
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... BENEDICK , a young Lord of Padua , favoured likewise by DON PEDRO . LEONATO , Governor of Messina . ANTONIO , his Brother . BALTHAZAR , Servant to DON PEDRO . BORACHIO , followers of JoпN . CONRADE , DOGBERRY , VERGES , two Officers ...
... BENEDICK , a young Lord of Padua , favoured likewise by DON PEDRO . LEONATO , Governor of Messina . ANTONIO , his Brother . BALTHAZAR , Servant to DON PEDRO . BORACHIO , followers of JoпN . CONRADE , DOGBERRY , VERGES , two Officers ...
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... Benedick of Padua . Mess . O ! he is returned , and as pleasant as ever he was . Beat . He set up his bills here in Messina , and challenged Cupid at the flight ; and my uncle's fool , reading the challenge , subscribed for Cupid , and ...
... Benedick of Padua . Mess . O ! he is returned , and as pleasant as ever he was . Beat . He set up his bills here in Messina , and challenged Cupid at the flight ; and my uncle's fool , reading the challenge , subscribed for Cupid , and ...
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... Benedick , no ; for then were you a child . D. Pedro . You have it full , Benedick : we may guess by this what you are , being a man . - Truly , the lady fathers herself . - Be happy , lady , for you are like an honourable father . Bene ...
... Benedick , no ; for then were you a child . D. Pedro . You have it full , Benedick : we may guess by this what you are , being a man . - Truly , the lady fathers herself . - Be happy , lady , for you are like an honourable father . Bene ...
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... Benedick bear it , pluck off the bull's horns , and set them in my forehead ; and let me be vilely painted , and in such great letters as they write , " Here is a good horse to hire , " let them signify under my sign , - " Here you may ...
... Benedick bear it , pluck off the bull's horns , and set them in my forehead ; and let me be vilely painted , and in such great letters as they write , " Here is a good horse to hire , " let them signify under my sign , - " Here you may ...
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 3 John Payne Collier,Charles Knight No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 25 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet...
Page 38 - 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 32 - Have waked their sleepers ; oped, and let them forth By my so potent art. But this rough magic I here abjure ; and, when I have requir'd Some heavenly music, (which even now I do) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Page 45 - Will in that station, was the faint, general, and almost lost ideas, he had of having once seen him act a part in one of his own comedies, wherein being to personate a decrepit old man, he wore a long beard, and appeared so weak and drooping and unable to walk, that he was forced to be supported and carried by another person to a table, at which he was seated among some company who were eating, and one of them sung a song.