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Page 44 - His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Page 16 - Call me not lord ; away — out of my sight ! Ah, pardon me : grief makes me lunatic ! Let not that Mortimer protect my son; More safety is there in a tiger's jaws, Than his embracements.
Page 26 - Yet held her wrathful hand from vengeance sore : But drawing nigh, ere he her well beheld, " Is this the faith ?" she said— and said no more, But turned her face, and fled away for evermore.
Page 28 - Upon the gentle wing of some calm breathing wind, That plays amidst the plain, If by the favour of propitious stars you gain Such grace as in my lady's bosom place to find, Be proud to touch those places ! And when her warmth your moisture forth doth wear, Whereby her dainty parts are sweetly fed...
Page 42 - There seems to have been a period of Shakespeare's life when his heart was ill at ease, and ill content with the world or his own conscience...
Page 23 - All theselords that wish well to the children, and, I suppose, all the best sort of the English lords besides, do expect what will become of the treaty between Mr. Philip and my lady Penelope.
Page 21 - Demagoras, her heart had vowed to Argalus, with so grateful a receipt in mutual affection, that if she desired above all things to have Argalus, Argalus feared nothing but to miss Parthenia.
Page 10 - I keepe my old course, to palter vp some thing in Prose, vsing mine old poesie still, Omne tulit punctum, although latelye two Gentlemen Poets made two mad men of Rome beate it out of their paper bucklers : and had it in derision, for that I could not make my verses iet vpon the stage in tragicall buskins, euerie worde filling the mouth like the faburden of Bo-Bell, daring God out of heauen with that Atheist Tamburlan, or blaspheming with the mad preest of the sonne...
Page 26 - His song was all a lamentable lay Of great unkindnesse, and of usage hard, Of Cynthia the Ladie of the Sea, Which from her presence faultlesse him debard, And ever and anon, with...