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... may feel the satisfaction I have frequently felt in composing it , and receive
such instructions and advantages from it , as it is well calculated and well able to
bestow . For my own part , better and more important things henceforth
demanded ...
... may feel the satisfaction I have frequently felt in composing it , and receive
such instructions and advantages from it , as it is well calculated and well able to
bestow . For my own part , better and more important things henceforth
demanded ...
Page xvii
... while the means of retreat were practicable ; and they had scarce marched half
a mile , before they were all forced to lay down more than their arms , and
encamp in a very disorderly and unmilitary form , under no better covering than a
large ...
... while the means of retreat were practicable ; and they had scarce marched half
a mile , before they were all forced to lay down more than their arms , and
encamp in a very disorderly and unmilitary form , under no better covering than a
large ...
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This was the first dawn of better fortune . Shakspeare finding more horses put into
his hand than he could hold , hired boys to wait under his inspection , who , when
Will Shakspeare was summoned , were immediately to present themselves , I ...
This was the first dawn of better fortune . Shakspeare finding more horses put into
his hand than he could hold , hired boys to wait under his inspection , who , when
Will Shakspeare was summoned , were immediately to present themselves , I ...
Page xxvii
... they had not to invent for themselves , but to adapt an old invention to their own
purposes : and at a time when every better apartment was adorned with tapestry ;
when even the rooms of the commonest taverns were hung with painted cloths ...
... they had not to invent for themselves , but to adapt an old invention to their own
purposes : and at a time when every better apartment was adorned with tapestry ;
when even the rooms of the commonest taverns were hung with painted cloths ...
Page xliii
The next may be said to be rather of a “ better leer . ” “ Verses by Ben Jonson and
Shakspeare , occasioned by the motto to the Globe Theatre - Totus mundus agit
histrionem . JONSON . ( • If , but stage actors all the world displays , Where shall ...
The next may be said to be rather of a “ better leer . ” “ Verses by Ben Jonson and
Shakspeare , occasioned by the motto to the Globe Theatre - Totus mundus agit
histrionem . JONSON . ( • If , but stage actors all the world displays , Where shall ...
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Page 45 - I am a Jew: hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by' the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 242 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
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Page 90 - But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
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Page 216 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure.
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| Title | The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from Each Play, with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper Heads |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Compiled by | William Dodd |
| Publisher | Phillips, Sampson, & Company, 1851 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 5 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 345 pages |
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