The Plays & Poems of Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice. Midsummer night's dream. Love's labor's lostH:O. Bohn, 1857 |
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... bond is taken from a tale in the Pecorone of Ser Giovanni , a Florentine novelist , wno wrote in 1378 , three years after the death of Boccace . This book was probably known to our author through the medium of some translation no longer ...
... bond is taken from a tale in the Pecorone of Ser Giovanni , a Florentine novelist , wno wrote in 1378 , three years after the death of Boccace . This book was probably known to our author through the medium of some translation no longer ...
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... bond , which he has executed with a Jew for the payment of a sum of money within a certain period , on forfeiture of a pound of flesh nearest his heart , is now demanded by his inexorable creditor . After receiving a ring from his bride ...
... bond , which he has executed with a Jew for the payment of a sum of money within a certain period , on forfeiture of a pound of flesh nearest his heart , is now demanded by his inexorable creditor . After receiving a ring from his bride ...
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... bond . Bas . Be assured , you may . Shy . I will be assured I may ; and , that I may be assured , I will bethink me . May I speak with Antonio ? Bas . If it please you to dine with us . Shy . Yes , to smell pork ; to eat of the ...
... bond . Bas . Be assured , you may . Shy . I will be assured I may ; and , that I may be assured , I will bethink me . May I speak with Antonio ? Bas . If it please you to dine with us . Shy . Yes , to smell pork ; to eat of the ...
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... bond ; and , let me see ; - hear you ; -But Methought , you said , you neither lend nor borrow Upon advantage . Ant . I do never use it . Shy . When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep ; This Jacob from our holy Abraham was ( As his ...
... bond ; and , let me see ; - hear you ; -But Methought , you said , you neither lend nor borrow Upon advantage . Ant . I do never use it . Shy . When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep ; This Jacob from our holy Abraham was ( As his ...
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... bond , And say , there is much kindness in the Jew . Bas . You shall not seal to such a bond for me ; I'll rather dwell in my necessity . Ant . Why , fear not , man ; I will not forfeit it : Within these two months , ( that's a month ...
... bond , And say , there is much kindness in the Jew . Bas . You shall not seal to such a bond for me ; I'll rather dwell in my necessity . Ant . Why , fear not , man ; I will not forfeit it : Within these two months , ( that's a month ...
Common terms and phrases
adieu Antonio Armado Athens Bassanio Biron blood bond Boyet casket Costard dear Demetrius dost doth ducats duke Dull Dumain Egeus Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair fair lady fairy father fear flesh fool forsworn gentle give grace Gratiano hath hear heart heaven Helena Hermia Hippolyta Jaquenetta Jessica Kath King l'envoy lady Laun Launcelot lion Longaville look lord Lorenzo love's lovers Lysander madam master MERCHANT OF VENICE merry MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM mistress moon Moth Nerissa never night o'er oath Oberon PHILOSTRATE play Pompey Portia praise pray thee princess Puck Pyramus Quince ring Rosaline Salan Salar SCENE SHAK Shylock Sir Nath sleep soul speak swear sweet tell Theseus thing Thisby thou art thou hast thousand ducats Titania tongue true unto Venice word
Popular passages
Page 12 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 96 - Nay, take my life and all, pardon not that : You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 332 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Page 208 - Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching 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 his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide...
Page 21 - I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 141 - 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 142 - That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And...
Page 220 - 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 85 - You have among you many a purchased slave, Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules, You use in abject and in slavish parts, Because you bought them.
Page 103 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines...