The Works of Shakespeare: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions: Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrewEstes and Lauriat, 1883 - English drama |
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... reasons which need not be stated here , that the ballad was before the play ; and the first stanza suggests the novel , of which we have giver an outline , as the probable foundation of it : " In Venice towne not long agoe a cruel Jew ...
... reasons which need not be stated here , that the ballad was before the play ; and the first stanza suggests the novel , of which we have giver an outline , as the probable foundation of it : " In Venice towne not long agoe a cruel Jew ...
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... reason , that this controversy may have suggested the subject of the play ; no ! indeed that the Poet had any thought of writing a law - lecture or an argument on the point , but that he saw the advantage of using a traditionary plot ...
... reason , that this controversy may have suggested the subject of the play ; no ! indeed that the Poet had any thought of writing a law - lecture or an argument on the point , but that he saw the advantage of using a traditionary plot ...
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... reason , but from passion , or from something within him which his reason , iu so far as he hath any , necessarily disapproves : so that he is rather to be laughed at as a dunce , than preached to as a sinner . - 164 Touching the moral ...
... reason , but from passion , or from something within him which his reason , iu so far as he hath any , necessarily disapproves : so that he is rather to be laughed at as a dunce , than preached to as a sinner . - 164 Touching the moral ...
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... reason why he is so and not otherwise for Shakespeare seldom if ever brings in a person merely for the sake of others . A mixture , indeed , of conceit and drollery , and hugely wrapped up in self , yet he is by no means a commonplace ...
... reason why he is so and not otherwise for Shakespeare seldom if ever brings in a person merely for the sake of others . A mixture , indeed , of conceit and drollery , and hugely wrapped up in self , yet he is by no means a commonplace ...
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... reason he will vouchsafe for taking the pound of flesh is , " if it will feed nothing else , it will feed my revenge ; " — a reason all the more satisfactory to him , forasmuch as those to whom he gives it can neither allow nor refute ...
... reason he will vouchsafe for taking the pound of flesh is , " if it will feed nothing else , it will feed my revenge ; " — a reason all the more satisfactory to him , forasmuch as those to whom he gives it can neither allow nor refute ...
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Antonio Baptista Bass Bassanio Ben Jonson Bertram Bian Bianca Bion Biondello Count daughter doth ducats Duke Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair father fool forest of Arden Ganimede gentle gentleman Gentlemen of Verona give hand hath hear heart honour Hortensio husband Jaques Jessica Kate Kath Katharine King knave lady Lafeu Laun Launcelot look lord Love's Labour's Lost Lucentio madam maid marriage marry master means merchant Merchant of Venice mistress Nerissa never night Orlando Padua Parolles Petruchio Pisa play Poet Portia pr'ythee pray ring Rosalind Rousillon SCENE Servant Shakespeare shalt Shrew Shylock Sirrah speak swear sweet tell thee thing thou art thou hast Touch Tranio unto Venice wife withal word young
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Page 113 - 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 28 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 103 - Nay, take my life and all, pardon not that : You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 180 - 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 167 - When service should in my old limbs lie lame, And unregarded age in corners thrown. Take that; and He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age ! Here is the gold : All this I give you. Let me be your servant : Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty ; For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood ; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo so The means of weakness and debility ; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty,...
Page 181 - Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot : Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend remember'd not Heigh, ho ! sing, heigh, ho ! &c.
Page 66 - 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 174 - twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.
Page 102 - Therefore prepare thee to cut off the flesh. Shed thou no blood, nor cut thou less nor more But just a pound of flesh. If thou tak'st more Or less than a just pound, be it but so much As makes it light or heavy in the substance Or the division of the twentieth part Of one poor scruple, nay, if the scale do turn But in the estimation of a hair, Thou diest, and all thy goods are confiscate.
Page 179 - 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 : Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school : and then, the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress