The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. OthelloC. Whittingham, 1826 |
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... kind of antithesis was very much in the taste of the Pro . vençal and Italian poets . Perhaps it might be hinted by the Ode of Sappho , preserved by Longinus : Petrarch is full of it : - Pace non trovo , e non ho da far guerra ; E temo ...
... kind of antithesis was very much in the taste of the Pro . vençal and Italian poets . Perhaps it might be hinted by the Ode of Sappho , preserved by Longinus : Petrarch is full of it : - Pace non trovo , e non ho da far guerra ; E temo ...
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... in so blunt , without device ? ' Of this kind of masquerading there is a specimen in Timon , where Cupid precedes a troop of ladies with a speech . We'll have no cupid hood - wink'd with a scarf 28 ACT I. ROMEO AND JULIET .
... in so blunt , without device ? ' Of this kind of masquerading there is a specimen in Timon , where Cupid precedes a troop of ladies with a speech . We'll have no cupid hood - wink'd with a scarf 28 ACT I. ROMEO AND JULIET .
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... kind of fruit , As maids call medlars , when they laugh alone.- Romeo , good night ; -I'll to my truckle - bed ; This field - bed is too cold for me to sleep : Come , shall we go ? Ben . Go , then ; for ' tis in vain To seek him here ...
... kind of fruit , As maids call medlars , when they laugh alone.- Romeo , good night ; -I'll to my truckle - bed ; This field - bed is too cold for me to sleep : Come , shall we go ? Ben . Go , then ; for ' tis in vain To seek him here ...
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... kind We sucking on her natural bosom find ; Many for many virtues excellent , None but for some , and yet all different . O , mickle is the powerful grace , that lies In herbs , plants , stones , and their true qualities : For nought so ...
... kind We sucking on her natural bosom find ; Many for many virtues excellent , None but for some , and yet all different . O , mickle is the powerful grace , that lies In herbs , plants , stones , and their true qualities : For nought so ...
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... kind of wide kneed breeches , or rather trow- See vol . ii . p . 358 . sers . 10 See vol . vii . p . 365 , note 3 . 11 Here is a vein of wit too thin to be easily found . The fun- damental idea is , that Romeo wore pinked pumps , that ...
... kind of wide kneed breeches , or rather trow- See vol . ii . p . 358 . sers . 10 See vol . vii . p . 365 , note 3 . 11 Here is a vein of wit too thin to be easily found . The fun- damental idea is , that Romeo wore pinked pumps , that ...
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Page 254 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe ? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Page 170 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on ; and yet, within a month — Let me not think on't. — Frailty, thy name is woman...
Page 330 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all.
Page 368 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: Which I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate.
Page 230 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 32 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid. Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut , Made by the joiner squirrel , or old grub , Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Page 50 - And yet I wish but for the thing I have: My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Page 366 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it : Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption thence, And portance in my...
Page 439 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Page 238 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.