Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream |
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60 Whose edge hath power to cut , whose will still wills It should none spare that
come within his power . Prin . Some merry mocking lord , belike ; is't so ? Mar.
They say so most , that most his humours know . Prin . Such short - liv'd wits do ...
60 Whose edge hath power to cut , whose will still wills It should none spare that
come within his power . Prin . Some merry mocking lord , belike ; is't so ? Mar.
They say so most , that most his humours know . Prin . Such short - liv'd wits do ...
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Sir , he hath never fed on the dainties that are bred in a book ; he hath not eat
paper , as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenish . ed ; he is
only an animal , only sensible in the duller parts : And such barren plants are set
...
Sir , he hath never fed on the dainties that are bred in a book ; he hath not eat
paper , as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenish . ed ; he is
only an animal , only sensible in the duller parts : And such barren plants are set
...
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510 Now I perceive that she hath made compare Between our statures , she hath
urg'd her height ; And with her personage , her tall personage , Her height ,
forsooth , she hath prevail'd with him.And are you grown so high in his esteem ...
510 Now I perceive that she hath made compare Between our statures , she hath
urg'd her height ; And with her personage , her tall personage , Her height ,
forsooth , she hath prevail'd with him.And are you grown so high in his esteem ...
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The eye of man hath not heard , the ear of man hath not seen ; man's hand is not
able to taste , his tongue to conceive , nor his heart to report , what my dream was
. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream : it shall be callid Bottom's ...
The eye of man hath not heard , the ear of man hath not seen ; man's hand is not
able to taste , his tongue to conceive , nor his heart to report , what my dream was
. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream : it shall be callid Bottom's ...
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And ere a man hath power to say , -Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up
: ] Though the word spleen be here employed oddly enough , yet I believe it right .
Shakspere , always hurried on by the grandeur and multitude of his ideas ...
And ere a man hath power to say , -Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up
: ] Though the word spleen be here employed oddly enough , yet I believe it right .
Shakspere , always hurried on by the grandeur and multitude of his ideas ...
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Page 70 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.
Page 25 - That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 81 - The best in this kind are but shadows ; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
Page 70 - I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
Page 19 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough briar, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moones sphere ; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green : The cowslips tall her pensioners be ; In their gold coats spots you see ; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours : I must go seek some dew-drops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Page 111 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Page 25 - 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, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Page 69 - Subtle as Sphinx; as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And, when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
Page 51 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem ; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart : Two of the first, like coats...
Page 5 - The endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour, which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity.
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| Title | Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream Volume 6 of The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All the Various Commentators; Printed Complete from the Best Editions of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | Printed for, and under the direction of, John Bell, 1788 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 May 2007 |
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