The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes. Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected: with Notes, Explanatory and Critical:H. Lintott, C. Hitch, J. and R. Tonson, C. Corbet, R. and B. Wellington, J. Brindley, and E. New., 1740 |
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... first create ! O heavy lightness ! ferious vanity ! Mif - fhapen chaos of well - feeming forms ! Feather of lead , bright smoke , cold fire , fick health ! Still - waking fleep , that is not what it is ! This love feel I , that feel no ...
... first create ! O heavy lightness ! ferious vanity ! Mif - fhapen chaos of well - feeming forms ! Feather of lead , bright smoke , cold fire , fick health ! Still - waking fleep , that is not what it is ! This love feel I , that feel no ...
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... first the world begun . Ben . Tut ! tut ! you faw her fair , none else being by ; Her felf pois'd with her felf , in either eye ; But in thofe cryftal fcales , let there be weigh'd Your Lady - love against fome other maid , ( 3 ) That I ...
... first the world begun . Ben . Tut ! tut ! you faw her fair , none else being by ; Her felf pois'd with her felf , in either eye ; But in thofe cryftal fcales , let there be weigh'd Your Lady - love against fome other maid , ( 3 ) That I ...
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... First , then , she is called Queen : which is very pertinent ; for that designs her Power : Then fhe is called the Fairies ' Midwife ; but what has that to do with the Point in hand . If we would think that Shakespeare wrote Senfe , we ...
... First , then , she is called Queen : which is very pertinent ; for that designs her Power : Then fhe is called the Fairies ' Midwife ; but what has that to do with the Point in hand . If we would think that Shakespeare wrote Senfe , we ...
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... first to bear ; Making them women of good carriage : This is the Rom . Peace , peace , Mercutio , peace ; Thou talk'ft of nothing . Mer . True , I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain , Begot of nothing , but vain ...
... first to bear ; Making them women of good carriage : This is the Rom . Peace , peace , Mercutio , peace ; Thou talk'ft of nothing . Mer . True , I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain , Begot of nothing , but vain ...
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... . Jul . By whofe direction found'ft thou out this place ? Rom . By love , that first did prompt me to enquire ; He lent me counsel , and I lent him eyes : B 5 I am I am no Pilot , yet wert thou as far ROMEO and JULIET . 33.
... . Jul . By whofe direction found'ft thou out this place ? Rom . By love , that first did prompt me to enquire ; He lent me counsel , and I lent him eyes : B 5 I am I am no Pilot , yet wert thou as far ROMEO and JULIET . 33.
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Page 191 - How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep, while to my shame I see, The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain? O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!
Page 212 - I loved Ophelia; forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum.
Page 114 - Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Page 119 - Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel ; but being in, Bear't, that the opposed may beware of thee.
Page 172 - ... 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 153 - With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing! For Hecuba! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?
Page 161 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 24 - Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice; Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Page 190 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 246 - This to hear Would Desdemona seriously incline: But still the house affairs would draw her thence; Which ever as she could with haste despatch, 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...