The Plays and Poems of ShakespeareBell & Daldy, 1878 |
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Page xxiii
... sweet swan of Avon ; ' designations , which must be considered as implying the family residence of our author . These circumstances induced Mr. Chalmers , after much research , to conclude that Shakspeare " had no fixed residence in the ...
... sweet swan of Avon ; ' designations , which must be considered as implying the family residence of our author . These circumstances induced Mr. Chalmers , after much research , to conclude that Shakspeare " had no fixed residence in the ...
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... Sweet swan of Avon , what a sight it were , To see thee in our waters yet appear ; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames , That so did take Eliza and our James . The latter monarch was present at the representa- tion of xxxii ...
... Sweet swan of Avon , what a sight it were , To see thee in our waters yet appear ; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames , That so did take Eliza and our James . The latter monarch was present at the representa- tion of xxxii ...
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... sweet sprites , the burden bear . Hark , hark ! BUR . Bлwgh , wowgh . The watch - dogs bark : BUR . Bowgh , wowgh . Hark , hark ! I hear The strain of strutting chanticlere Cry , Cock - a - doodle - doo . [ dispersedly . [ dispersedly ...
... sweet sprites , the burden bear . Hark , hark ! BUR . Bлwgh , wowgh . The watch - dogs bark : BUR . Bowgh , wowgh . Hark , hark ! I hear The strain of strutting chanticlere Cry , Cock - a - doodle - doo . [ dispersedly . [ dispersedly ...
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... king's fair daughter Claribel to the king of Tunis . Seb . " Twas a sweet marriage , and we prosper well in our return . Juicy , succulent . Shade of green . Adr . Tunis was never graced before with such a 30 ACT II . TEMPEST .
... king's fair daughter Claribel to the king of Tunis . Seb . " Twas a sweet marriage , and we prosper well in our return . Juicy , succulent . Shade of green . Adr . Tunis was never graced before with such a 30 ACT II . TEMPEST .
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... sweet mistress Weeps when she sees me work ; and says , such baseness Had ne'er like executor . I forget : But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my la- bors ; Most busy - less , when I do it . Enter MIRANDA ; and PROSPERO at a ...
... sweet mistress Weeps when she sees me work ; and says , such baseness Had ne'er like executor . I forget : But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my la- bors ; Most busy - less , when I do it . Enter MIRANDA ; and PROSPERO at a ...
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Page 77 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie : There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 160 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 128 - Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do; Not light them for themselves: for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 76 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Page 75 - By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites; and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid, Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war...
Page 181 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 54 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears ; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me ; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.
Page 162 - s most assured, His glassy essence,) like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep ; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Page 180 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless...
Page 28 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things : for no kind of traffic Would I admit, no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty. And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.