The Works of Shakespeare: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions: Editor's preface; Didication; Commendatory verses; Tempest; Two gentlemen of Verona; Merry wives of Windsor; Twelfth nightJ. Munroe, 1851 |
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... , Here shall revive , redeem thee from thy hearse . Nor fire , nor cankering age , as Naso said Of his , thy wit - fraught book shall once invade : VOL . I. с Nor shall I e'er believe or think thee dead , COMMENDATORY VERSES . XXV.
... , Here shall revive , redeem thee from thy hearse . Nor fire , nor cankering age , as Naso said Of his , thy wit - fraught book shall once invade : VOL . I. с Nor shall I e'er believe or think thee dead , COMMENDATORY VERSES . XXV.
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... once thought to have contributed something towards The Tempest . But it is now generally allowed to be more modern than the play , and probably founded upon it ; the names and some points of the story being varied , as if on purpose to ...
... once thought to have contributed something towards The Tempest . But it is now generally allowed to be more modern than the play , and probably founded upon it ; the names and some points of the story being varied , as if on purpose to ...
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... once feel at home with them , and see noth- ing to hinder their union in the world of which we are a part . For it seems hardly more than a truism to say , that in the mingling of the natural and the supernatural there is here no gap ...
... once feel at home with them , and see noth- ing to hinder their union in the world of which we are a part . For it seems hardly more than a truism to say , that in the mingling of the natural and the supernatural there is here no gap ...
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... once the wick- edness of their hearts and the weakness of their hands ; whereas , if successful in their plans , pride of power would forestall and prevent the natural shame and remorse of guilt . And we little know what evil it lieth ...
... once the wick- edness of their hearts and the weakness of their hands ; whereas , if successful in their plans , pride of power would forestall and prevent the natural shame and remorse of guilt . And we little know what evil it lieth ...
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... once leaping forth and running together into a stream of poetry which no words of ours can describe . So much of beauty in so few words , and those few so plain and homely , - " O , wondrous skill and sweet wit of the man ! " Here ...
... once leaping forth and running together into a stream of poetry which no words of ours can describe . So much of beauty in so few words , and those few so plain and homely , - " O , wondrous skill and sweet wit of the man ! " Here ...
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ARIEL better Caius Caliban called devil dost doth Duke Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fairies Falstaff father fool gentle gentlemen Gentlemen of Verona give hath hear heart heaven Henry IV Herne the hunter honour Host HUGH EVANS humour Illyria Julia king knave knight lady Laun Launce lord madam Malvolio Marry master Brook master doctor means Milan mind Mira mistress Ford never Olivia Pist play Poet Poet's pr'ythee pray Prospero Proteus Quick Re-enter SCENE Sebastian servant Shakespeare Shal Silvia Sir Andrew Sir ANDREW AGUE-CHEEK Sir Hugh Sir John Sir John Falstaff Sir Toby Sir TOBY BELCH Slen Slender soul speak Speed spirit sweet Sycorax tell Tempest thee there's thing thou art thou hast Thurio Trin Twelfth Night Valentine Verona Windsor woman word
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Page 104 - tis true, I must be here confin'd by you, Or sent to Naples : Let me not, Since I have my dukedom got, And pardon'd the deceiver, dwell In this bare island, by your spell ; But release me from my bands, With the help of your good hands ', Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please : Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant ; And my ending is despair, Unless I be reliev'd by prayer ; Which pierces so, that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults....
Page 92 - gainst my fury Do I take part: the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further.
Page 331 - If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy Love.
Page xxviii - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart • Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took, Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving ; And, so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
Page 72 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.
Page 93 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Page 93 - Some heavenly music, (which even now I do) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Page 92 - Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid, Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war...
Page 77 - O, it is monstrous! monstrous! Methought, the billows spoke, and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Prosper; it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i" the ooze is bedded ; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded.
Page 92 - By moon-shine do the green-sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you, whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms ; that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid (Weak masters though ye be,) I have be-dimm'd The noon-tide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And...