The Works of William Shakespeare: The Plays Ed. from the Folio of MDCXXIII, with Various Readings from All the Editions and All the Commentators, Notes, Introductory Remarks, a Historical Sketch of the Text, an Account of the Rise and Progress of the English Drama, a Memoir of the Poet, and an Essay Upon the Genius, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1863 |
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... ronisms and discrepancies as to time which close observation may detect in the play ; and he will then , too , be in a proper frame of mind to undertake the task . DRAMATIS PERSONE . THESEUS , Duke of Athens , EGEUS INTRODUCTION . 19.
... ronisms and discrepancies as to time which close observation may detect in the play ; and he will then , too , be in a proper frame of mind to undertake the task . DRAMATIS PERSONE . THESEUS , Duke of Athens , EGEUS INTRODUCTION . 19.
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... Duke ! The . Thanks , good Egeus : what's the news with thee ? Ege . Full of vexation come I ; with complaint Against my child , my daughter Hermia . Stand forth , Demetrius . ― My noble lord , This man hath my consent to marry her ...
... Duke ! The . Thanks , good Egeus : what's the news with thee ? Ege . Full of vexation come I ; with complaint Against my child , my daughter Hermia . Stand forth , Demetrius . ― My noble lord , This man hath my consent to marry her ...
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... Duke and the Duchess on his wedding - day at night . Bot . First , good Peter Quince , say what the play treats on ; then read the names of the actors , and so grow on to a point . Quin . Marry , our play is The most lamenta- ble Comedy ...
... Duke and the Duchess on his wedding - day at night . Bot . First , good Peter Quince , say what the play treats on ; then read the names of the actors , and so grow on to a point . Quin . Marry , our play is The most lamenta- ble Comedy ...
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... Duke say , ' Let him roar again let him roar again . ' Quin . An you should do it too terribly , you would fright the Duchess and the ladies , that they would shriek ; and that were enough to hang us all . All . That would hang us ...
... Duke say , ' Let him roar again let him roar again . ' Quin . An you should do it too terribly , you would fright the Duchess and the ladies , that they would shriek ; and that were enough to hang us all . All . That would hang us ...
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... more obscenely and courageously . Take pains ; be perfect ; adieu . Quin . At the Duke's oak we meet . Bot . Enough ; hold , or cut bow - strings . [ Exeunt . ACT II . SCENE I. - A Wood near Athens 32 ACT I. A MIDSUMMER - NIGHT'S.
... more obscenely and courageously . Take pains ; be perfect ; adieu . Quin . At the Duke's oak we meet . Bot . Enough ; hold , or cut bow - strings . [ Exeunt . ACT II . SCENE I. - A Wood near Athens 32 ACT I. A MIDSUMMER - NIGHT'S.
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Page 226 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins; Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we...
Page 227 - 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 308 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, 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 everything.
Page 151 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice : His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 224 - THE moon shines bright. — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise — in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Page 37 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 228 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Page 220 - 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 307 - 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...
Page 354 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : Sweet lovers love the spring.