The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare...: Embracing a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected..., Volume 2Phillips, Sampson, 1850 |
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... thoughts ; But I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befall me in this case , If I refuse to wed Demetrius . The . Either to die the death , or to abjure Forever the society of men . Therefore , fair Hermia , question ...
... thoughts ; But I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befall me in this case , If I refuse to wed Demetrius . The . Either to die the death , or to abjure Forever the society of men . Therefore , fair Hermia , question ...
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... thought to have spoke thereof ; But , being over - full of self - affairs , My mind did lose it . But , Demetrius , come , And come , Egeus ; you shall go with me ; I have some private schooling for you both.- For you , fair Hermia ...
... thought to have spoke thereof ; But , being over - full of self - affairs , My mind did lose it . But , Demetrius , come , And come , Egeus ; you shall go with me ; I have some private schooling for you both.- For you , fair Hermia ...
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... thought as fair as she . But what of that ? Demetrius thinks not so ; He will not know what all but he do know . And as he errs , doting on Hermia's eyes , So I , admiring of his qualities . Things base and vile , holding no quantity ...
... thought as fair as she . But what of that ? Demetrius thinks not so ; He will not know what all but he do know . And as he errs , doting on Hermia's eyes , So I , admiring of his qualities . Things base and vile , holding no quantity ...
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... thought he remembered to have heard this ludicrous ex- clamation upon a person's seat slipping from under him . He that slips from his chair falls as a tailor squats upon his board . Hanmer thought the passage corrupt , and proposed to ...
... thought he remembered to have heard this ludicrous ex- clamation upon a person's seat slipping from under him . He that slips from his chair falls as a tailor squats upon his board . Hanmer thought the passage corrupt , and proposed to ...
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... ture her shows art . " The second folio changes thought we should read , " Nature shows her art . " The first folio- " Na- her to here . Malone ང་ Where is Demetrius ? O , how fit a SC . III . ] 27 MIDSUMMER - NIGHT'S DREAM .
... ture her shows art . " The second folio changes thought we should read , " Nature shows her art . " The first folio- " Na- her to here . Malone ང་ Where is Demetrius ? O , how fit a SC . III . ] 27 MIDSUMMER - NIGHT'S DREAM .
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Page 20 - 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 79 - Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are.
Page 241 - 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 57 - 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 208 - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me of half a million ; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies ; and what's his reason ? 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...
Page 291 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then, the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances. And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Page 286 - No, sir,' quoth he, ' Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune : ' And then he drew a dial from his poke, And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye...
Page 165 - Tu-whit, tu-who ! a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted...