The Works of William Shakespeare: The Plays Ed. from the Folio of MDCXXIII, with Various Readings from All the Editions and All the Commentators, Notes, Introductory Remarks, a Historical Sketch of the Text, an Account of the Rise and Progress of the English Drama, a Memoir of the Poet, and an Essay Upon the Genius, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1857 - Andronicus, Titus (Legendary character) |
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... seems to be no ground on which to rest a doubt that Shakespeare was the first to give the fairy of the fireside tale either an embodiment upon the stage or a place in literature , however humble . Evidence abounds that the Oberon , the ...
... seems to be no ground on which to rest a doubt that Shakespeare was the first to give the fairy of the fireside tale either an embodiment upon the stage or a place in literature , however humble . Evidence abounds that the Oberon , the ...
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... seems to have done all that can be done to throw light upon the origin of this unique comedy ; and it is not his fault that his labors , though evincing great research and judgment , fail of their chief object ; but it is too plain to ...
... seems to have done all that can be done to throw light upon the origin of this unique comedy ; and it is not his fault that his labors , though evincing great research and judgment , fail of their chief object ; but it is too plain to ...
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... seems , then , we shall have no sleep to - night . ' So sinners sometimes abstain for a while from their wicked ways , in order that they may sin the more vigorously afterwards . The sol- diers are the angels about Christ's body ; Robin ...
... seems , then , we shall have no sleep to - night . ' So sinners sometimes abstain for a while from their wicked ways , in order that they may sin the more vigorously afterwards . The sol- diers are the angels about Christ's body ; Robin ...
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... seems that the writer of the Mad Pranks was incited to his task by the popularity of this comedy , which is well ... seem , other distinguished Shakespearian scholars hold another opinion ; but only , I believe , because they have not ...
... seems that the writer of the Mad Pranks was incited to his task by the popularity of this comedy , which is well ... seem , other distinguished Shakespearian scholars hold another opinion ; but only , I believe , because they have not ...
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... seems , then , that he was indebted only to popu- lar tradition for the more important part of the rude material which he worked into a structure of such fanciful and surpassing beauty for the mere existence of Theseus and Hippolyta in ...
... seems , then , that he was indebted only to popu- lar tradition for the more important part of the rude material which he worked into a structure of such fanciful and surpassing beauty for the mere existence of Theseus and Hippolyta in ...
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Antonio Baptista Bass Bassanio Bian Bianca Bion Biondello bond Collier's folio comedy daughter Demetrius doth ducats Duke Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair fairy father Folio and quartos fool gentle give Gratiano Gremio hath hear heart Helena Hermia Hippolyta honour Hortensio Jaques Jessica Kate Kath KATHARINA lady Laun Launcelot look lord Lorenzo Love's Labour's Lost lover Lucentio Lysander maid marry master means Merchant of Venice merry misprint mistress moon Nerissa never night Oberon original Orlando Padua passage Petruchio Philostrate play Portia pray Puck Pyramus quartos Quin Robin Goodfellow Rosalind SCENE second folio Shakespeare's Shakespeare's day shew shrew Shylock Signior sleep speak Steevens swear sweet tell thee Theseus thing Titania Touch Tranio unto Venice Vincentio word
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Page 26 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!
Page 37 - 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 310 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Page 227 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus : Let no such man be trusted.
Page 76 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was.
Page 309 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits, and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms...
Page 356 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : Sweet lovers love the spring.
Page 188 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? revenge: if a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? why, revenge. The villany you teach me I will execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Page 309 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon...
Page 292 - The seasons' difference, — as, the icy fang And churlish chiding of the Winter's wind, (Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, This is no flattery,) — these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.