The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 4F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... prove what is desired . A painter knows a copy from an original by rules somewhat resembling those by which critics know a trans- lation , which , if it be literal , and literal it must be to resemble the copy of a picture , will be ...
... prove what is desired . A painter knows a copy from an original by rules somewhat resembling those by which critics know a trans- lation , which , if it be literal , and literal it must be to resemble the copy of a picture , will be ...
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... prove the truth of this statement more de- cisively than a circumstance which I have had occasion to mention elsewhere , that Sir John Harrington was commonly called by Queen Elizabeth her WITTY godson , and was very generally admired ...
... prove the truth of this statement more de- cisively than a circumstance which I have had occasion to mention elsewhere , that Sir John Harrington was commonly called by Queen Elizabeth her WITTY godson , and was very generally admired ...
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... prove . PRO . ' Tis love you cavil at ; I am not love . VAL . Love is your master , for he masters you ; And he that is so yoked by a fool , Methinks should not be chronicled for wise . PRO . Yet writers say ; as in the sweetest bud The ...
... prove . PRO . ' Tis love you cavil at ; I am not love . VAL . Love is your master , for he masters you ; And he that is so yoked by a fool , Methinks should not be chronicled for wise . PRO . Yet writers say ; as in the sweetest bud The ...
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... proves me still a sheep . PRO . True ; and thy master a shepherd . SPEED . Nay , that I can deny by a circumstance . PRO . It shall go hard , but I'll prove it by another . SPEED . The shepherd seeks the sheep , and not * First folio ...
... proves me still a sheep . PRO . True ; and thy master a shepherd . SPEED . Nay , that I can deny by a circumstance . PRO . It shall go hard , but I'll prove it by another . SPEED . The shepherd seeks the sheep , and not * First folio ...
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... proving him a sheep . But why does he call the lady a laced mutton ? Wenchers are to this day called mutton - mongers ; and consequently the object of their passion must , by the metaphor , be the mutton . And Cotgrave , in his English ...
... proving him a sheep . But why does he call the lady a laced mutton ? Wenchers are to this day called mutton - mongers ; and consequently the object of their passion must , by the metaphor , be the mutton . And Cotgrave , in his English ...
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Page 390 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Page 20 - I have no other but a woman's reason : I think him so, because I think him so.
Page 283 - Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are.
Page 53 - Not for the world : why, man, she is mine own ; And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
Page 380 - You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, You common people of the skies; What are you when the moon shall rise?