Select plays from Shakspeare; adapted for the use of schools and young persons: with notes from the best commentators. [6 plays, ed. by E. Slater]. |
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... dead . Mar. Thou art a scholar , speak to it , Horatio . Ber . Looks it not like the king ? mark it , Horatio . Mar. Most like : -it harrows me with fear , and Ber . It would be spoke to . [ wonder . Speak to it , Horatio . Hor . What ...
... dead . Mar. Thou art a scholar , speak to it , Horatio . Ber . Looks it not like the king ? mark it , Horatio . Mar. Most like : -it harrows me with fear , and Ber . It would be spoke to . [ wonder . Speak to it , Horatio . Hor . What ...
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... dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets . As , stars with trains of fire and dews of blood , Disasters in the sun ; and the moist star , 2 Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands , Was sick almost to dooms - day with ...
... dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets . As , stars with trains of fire and dews of blood , Disasters in the sun ; and the moist star , 2 Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands , Was sick almost to dooms - day with ...
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... dead , a fault to nature , To reason most absurd ; whose common theme Is death of fathers , and who still hath cried , From the first corse , till he that died to - day , This must be so . pray you , throw to earth This unprevailing woe ...
... dead , a fault to nature , To reason most absurd ; whose common theme Is death of fathers , and who still hath cried , From the first corse , till he that died to - day , This must be so . pray you , throw to earth This unprevailing woe ...
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... dead ! -nay , not so much , not two : So excellent a king ; that was , to this , Hyperion to a Satyr : so loving to my mother , That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly . Heaven and earth ! Must I remember ...
... dead ! -nay , not so much , not two : So excellent a king ; that was , to this , Hyperion to a Satyr : so loving to my mother , That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly . Heaven and earth ! Must I remember ...
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... dead waist and middle of the night , Been thus encounter'd . A figure like your father , Armed at point , exactly , cap - à - pé , Appears before them , and , with solemn march , Goes slow and stately by them : thrice he walk'd , By ...
... dead waist and middle of the night , Been thus encounter'd . A figure like your father , Armed at point , exactly , cap - à - pé , Appears before them , and , with solemn march , Goes slow and stately by them : thrice he walk'd , By ...
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Alarum Antony arms Aufidius Banquo bear blood brother Brutus Buck Buckingham Cæs Cæsar Casca Cassius Catesby Clarence Cominius Coriolanus curse dead dear death Decius deed dost doth Duch ears Eliz enemy Enter Exeunt Exit eyes Farewell father Faulconbridge fear Fleance friends gentle Ghost give Gloster grace Guil Hamlet hand hath hear heart heaven honour Horatio is't John Julius Cæsar king Lady Laer Laertes Lart live look lord Macb Macbeth Macd Macduff madam majesty Marcius Mark Antony mother Murd murder never night noble peace Phil POLONIUS pray prince Queen Re-enter Rich Richard Roman Rome SCENE shalt sleep soldier soul speak spirit stand sweet sword tell thane thee There's thine thing thou art thou hast Titinius tongue unto Volces VOLUMNIA Witch word
Popular passages
Page 56 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Page 23 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine : But this eternal blazon ' must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 56 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 66 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my 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 42 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a steril promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 52 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know...
Page 57 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 12 - He's here in double trust ; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed : then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.