The Plays & Poems of Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice. Midsummer night's dream. Love's labor's lostH:O. Bohn, 1857 |
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... daughter of the king of Apulia for her choice , to prove whether she is worthy to receive the hand of the son of Anselmus , emperor of Rome . The princess , after praying to God for assistance , rejects the gold and silver caskets , and ...
... daughter of the king of Apulia for her choice , to prove whether she is worthy to receive the hand of the son of Anselmus , emperor of Rome . The princess , after praying to God for assistance , rejects the gold and silver caskets , and ...
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... daughter carefully shut up , her elopement with her lover by the intervention of a ser- vant , her robbing her father of his money , together with his grief on the discovery ; -a grief , divided equally between the loss of his daughter ...
... daughter carefully shut up , her elopement with her lover by the intervention of a ser- vant , her robbing her father of his money , together with his grief on the discovery ; -a grief , divided equally between the loss of his daughter ...
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... of Jessica , - the daughter of the Jew , with a young man , named Lorenzo , who procures from his father - in - law the reversion of his whole property . secutor . PERSONS REPRESENTED . DUKE OF VENICE . PRINCE OF MOROCCO 5.
... of Jessica , - the daughter of the Jew , with a young man , named Lorenzo , who procures from his father - in - law the reversion of his whole property . secutor . PERSONS REPRESENTED . DUKE OF VENICE . PRINCE OF MOROCCO 5.
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... daughter to Shylock . Magnificoes of Venice , Officers of the court of justice , Jailer . Servants , and other Attendants . SCENE , partly at Venice , and partly at Belmont , the seat of Portia , on the continent . MERCHANT OF VENICE ...
... daughter to Shylock . Magnificoes of Venice , Officers of the court of justice , Jailer . Servants , and other Attendants . SCENE , partly at Venice , and partly at Belmont , the seat of Portia , on the continent . MERCHANT OF VENICE ...
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... her eyes I did receive fair speechless messages . Her name is Portia ; nothing undervalued Ready ; from the French word prêt . 2 Formerly . To Cato's daughter , Brutus ' Portia . Nor is SCENE I. 13 MERCHANT OF VENICE .
... her eyes I did receive fair speechless messages . Her name is Portia ; nothing undervalued Ready ; from the French word prêt . 2 Formerly . To Cato's daughter , Brutus ' Portia . Nor is SCENE I. 13 MERCHANT OF VENICE .
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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
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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...