The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight]. [8 vols. The vol. containing the biogr. is of the 3rd ed.]. |
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... thought had reference to Elizabeth's military aid to Henry IV . , and to Raleigh's expedition to Guiana . He has subsequently fixed the date of its being written as 1591 , because there was an expedition to France under Essex in that ...
... thought had reference to Elizabeth's military aid to Henry IV . , and to Raleigh's expedition to Guiana . He has subsequently fixed the date of its being written as 1591 , because there was an expedition to France under Essex in that ...
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... thought it his duty to raise against every play of Shakspere , he says , with regard to the plot of this play , " he places the emperor at Milan , and sends his young men to attend him , but never mentions him more . " As the emperor ...
... thought it his duty to raise against every play of Shakspere , he says , with regard to the plot of this play , " he places the emperor at Milan , and sends his young men to attend him , but never mentions him more . " As the emperor ...
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... thought to be here used . But we are not quite sure that it means a strong and abiding desire ; two lines in Hudibras would seem to make the " month's mind " only a passing inclination : - " For if a trumpet sound , or drum beat , Who ...
... thought to be here used . But we are not quite sure that it means a strong and abiding desire ; two lines in Hudibras would seem to make the " month's mind " only a passing inclination : - " For if a trumpet sound , or drum beat , Who ...
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... thought this putting out of money to be an honest means of gaining , at least , the charges of his journey . " He , therefore , " put out some few hundred pounds , to be repaid twelve hundred pounds , upon his return from those two ...
... thought this putting out of money to be an honest means of gaining , at least , the charges of his journey . " He , therefore , " put out some few hundred pounds , to be repaid twelve hundred pounds , upon his return from those two ...
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... thought of the tournaments " in the emperor's court , " he had probably been admitted to the Tilt - yard at Kenil- worth , on some occasion of magnificent display by the proud Leicester . SCENE I. - Milan . A Room in the Duke's 29 TWO ...
... thought of the tournaments " in the emperor's court , " he had probably been admitted to the Tilt - yard at Kenil- worth , on some occasion of magnificent display by the proud Leicester . SCENE I. - Milan . A Room in the Duke's 29 TWO ...
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Page 424 - Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 280 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 424 - If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. 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 villainy you teach me I will execute ; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Page 220 - 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 every thing.