The Works of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost ; Midsummer night's dream ; Merchant of VeniceWhittaker & Company, 1842 |
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... means ( says Steevens ) for the sake of getting the dower . " Malone suggested prorogation instead of “ propagation , " to which he was perhaps led by the spelling of the first folio " propogation . " With character too gross is writ on ...
... means ( says Steevens ) for the sake of getting the dower . " Malone suggested prorogation instead of “ propagation , " to which he was perhaps led by the spelling of the first folio " propogation . " With character too gross is writ on ...
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... at large , that an old instrument of torture was called " a brake , " but not by any means certain that Shakespeare intended a reference to it . Ang . Benefactors ! Well ; what benefactors are they 24 [ ACT II . MEASURE FOR MEASURE .
... at large , that an old instrument of torture was called " a brake , " but not by any means certain that Shakespeare intended a reference to it . Ang . Benefactors ! Well ; what benefactors are they 24 [ ACT II . MEASURE FOR MEASURE .
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... means ? Elb . Ay , sir , by mistress Over - done's means ; but as she spit in his face , so she defied him . - and now she professes a HOT - HOUSE , ] A " hot - house " and a bagnio for- merly were synonymous : thus in the romance of ...
... means ? Elb . Ay , sir , by mistress Over - done's means ; but as she spit in his face , so she defied him . - and now she professes a HOT - HOUSE , ] A " hot - house " and a bagnio for- merly were synonymous : thus in the romance of ...
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... mean it not . 5 Why , very well : I TELLING you then , ] Malone has it " I tell you then , " in opposition to all the authorities . The Clown is referring to what is past , and to what he had formerly told Froth . Clo . Sir , but you ...
... mean it not . 5 Why , very well : I TELLING you then , ] Malone has it " I tell you then , " in opposition to all the authorities . The Clown is referring to what is past , and to what he had formerly told Froth . Clo . Sir , but you ...
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... mean to geld and spay all the youth of the city 9 ? Escal . No , Pompey . Clo . Truly , sir , in my poor opinion , they will to't then . If your worship will take order for the drabs and the knaves , you need not to fear the bawds ...
... mean to geld and spay all the youth of the city 9 ? Escal . No , Pompey . Clo . Truly , sir , in my poor opinion , they will to't then . If your worship will take order for the drabs and the knaves , you need not to fear the bawds ...
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Page 453 - The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact : One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name.
Page 450 - 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 23 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page 34 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does.
Page 382 - When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo...
Page 52 - And shamed life a hateful. Claud. 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 region of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison...
Page 249 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours. So will it fare with Claudio. When he shall hear she died upon his words, Th...