The Merchant of Venice: With Notes, Introduction and Glossary EditedH. Holt and Company, 1905 - 89 pages |
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... mind was constituted on somewhat similar lines , and in age he could repeat entire pages of ballads which he had heard only once recited in early youth . Shakespeare begins Work . - Shakespeare's schooldays probably lasted from 1571 ...
... mind was constituted on somewhat similar lines , and in age he could repeat entire pages of ballads which he had heard only once recited in early youth . Shakespeare begins Work . - Shakespeare's schooldays probably lasted from 1571 ...
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... mind in his dramas . Shakespeare is un- questionably the most extraordinary intellectual being the world has known . His genius consisted in the absolute equality or equipoise which existed between his imaginative and his intellectual ...
... mind in his dramas . Shakespeare is un- questionably the most extraordinary intellectual being the world has known . His genius consisted in the absolute equality or equipoise which existed between his imaginative and his intellectual ...
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... mind . The second quarto differs very slightly from the first , but the stage directions are fuller , and it was probably printed from a play - house copy , and therefore with somewhat better authority . The text of this second quarto ...
... mind . The second quarto differs very slightly from the first , but the stage directions are fuller , and it was probably printed from a play - house copy , and therefore with somewhat better authority . The text of this second quarto ...
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... mind of ( for ) feasting forth to - night ' ( II . v . 37 ) . " That many may be meant by ( of ) the fool multitude ' ( II . ix . 26 ) . Void and empty from ( of ) any dram of mercy ' ( IV . i . 6 ) . ' I humbly do desire your grace of ...
... mind of ( for ) feasting forth to - night ' ( II . v . 37 ) . " That many may be meant by ( of ) the fool multitude ' ( II . ix . 26 ) . Void and empty from ( of ) any dram of mercy ' ( IV . i . 6 ) . ' I humbly do desire your grace of ...
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... mind is tossing on the ocean ; There , where your argosies with portly sail , Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood , Or , as it were , the pageants of the sea , Do overpeer the petty traffickers , That curt'sy to them , do them ...
... mind is tossing on the ocean ; There , where your argosies with portly sail , Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood , Or , as it were , the pageants of the sea , Do overpeer the petty traffickers , That curt'sy to them , do them ...
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Page 13 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart ; O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Page 28 - The reason is, your spirits are attentive ; For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing, and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood; If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze, By the sweet power of music.
Page 14 - Shylock, we would have moneys : ' you say so ; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold : moneys is your suit. What should I say to you ? Should I not say ' Hath a dog money ? is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats...
Page 14 - And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much To mitigate the justice of thy plea; Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there. SHY. My deeds upon my head! I crave the law, The...
Page xxxvi - And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Page 3 - 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 ? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. 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 villany you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Page 2 - 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 ? if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Page 5 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes
Page 14 - I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart : If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority : To do a great right, do a little wrong ; And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Page ix - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.