Gleanings from the Comedies of ShakespeareW. P. Nimmo, 1868 - 128 pages |
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... tongue , I say , is no man , If with his tongue he cannot win a woman . ORPHEUS ' LUTE . Orpheus ' lute was strung with poets ' sinews ; Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones , Make tigers tame , and huge leviathans Forsake ...
... tongue , I say , is no man , If with his tongue he cannot win a woman . ORPHEUS ' LUTE . Orpheus ' lute was strung with poets ' sinews ; Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones , Make tigers tame , and huge leviathans Forsake ...
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... tongues in trees , books in the running brooks , Sermons in stones , and good in everything . NATURE PERverted . Know you not , master , to some kind of men Their graces serve them but as enemies ? No more do yours ; your virtues ...
... tongues in trees , books in the running brooks , Sermons in stones , and good in everything . NATURE PERverted . Know you not , master , to some kind of men Their graces serve them but as enemies ? No more do yours ; your virtues ...
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... tongue hath wrong'd him : if it do him right , Then he hath wrong'd himself ; if he be free , Why then , my taxing like a wild goose flies , Unclaim'd of any man . THE PLAY OF LIFE . Duke . We are not all alone unhappy : This wide and ...
... tongue hath wrong'd him : if it do him right , Then he hath wrong'd himself ; if he be free , Why then , my taxing like a wild goose flies , Unclaim'd of any man . THE PLAY OF LIFE . Duke . We are not all alone unhappy : This wide and ...
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... tongues ; Let every eye negotiate for itself , And trust no agent ; for beauty is a witch , Against whose charms faith melteth into blood . BEATRICE'S BEHAVIOUR TO BENEDICK . O , she misused me past the endurance of a block ; an oak ...
... tongues ; Let every eye negotiate for itself , And trust no agent ; for beauty is a witch , Against whose charms faith melteth into blood . BEATRICE'S BEHAVIOUR TO BENEDICK . O , she misused me past the endurance of a block ; an oak ...
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... tongue is the clapper ; for what his heart thinks , his tongue speaks . BALTHAZAR'S SONG . Sigh no more , ladies , sigh no more , Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in sea , and one on shore ; To one thing constant never : Then sigh not ...
... tongue is the clapper ; for what his heart thinks , his tongue speaks . BALTHAZAR'S SONG . Sigh no more , ladies , sigh no more , Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in sea , and one on shore ; To one thing constant never : Then sigh not ...
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ADAGES AND APOTHEGMS Art thou beard beauty BENEDICK betimes better blood blow BOTTOM'S DREAM brains brave canker Clown cockle comes commend counsel Cuckoo Cupid curst devil dost doth drink ducdāme Duke eyes fair FALSTAFF fancy fantastical faults fear fellow fire folly fool forswear forsworn friends grace grief hath hear heart heaven heigh hither honest honour humour Jaques labour Lie direct live lord Love's lover lute man's marriage married master melancholy mend merrier merry Methought mirth motley motley fool nature ne'er never night numbers oaths Orlando ORPHEUS Pedro play poor Proteus Puck rich Rosalind scape scorn Shakespeare sigh Silvia sing sleep soldier SONG speak spleen sport strange sweet tell thee There's Theseus thing thou art To-whoo tongue Touchstone true truth twill valour vile Viola virtue virtuous wind wise withal woman women WOOING word young youth
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Page 73 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which his fair tongue, (conceit's expositor,) Delivers in such apt and gracious words.
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Page 75 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain, But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Page 43 - And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practice As full of labour as a wise man's art; For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fallen, quite taint their wit.
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