The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere, Volume 6C. Knight, 1851 |
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... grace rather than of beauty ; the elegance of a youthful poet aiming to be correct . Johnson considered this comedy to be wanting in " diversity of character . " The action , it must be observed , is mainly sus- tained by Proteus and ...
... grace rather than of beauty ; the elegance of a youthful poet aiming to be correct . Johnson considered this comedy to be wanting in " diversity of character . " The action , it must be observed , is mainly sus- tained by Proteus and ...
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... grace it . Enter PANTHINO . PAN . Sir Proteus , you are stay'd for . PRO . Go ; I come , I come : - Alas ! this parting strikes poor lovers dumb . SCENE III . - The same . A Street . Enter LAUNCE , leading a Dog . [ Giving a ring ...
... grace it . Enter PANTHINO . PAN . Sir Proteus , you are stay'd for . PRO . Go ; I come , I come : - Alas ! this parting strikes poor lovers dumb . SCENE III . - The same . A Street . Enter LAUNCE , leading a Dog . [ Giving a ring ...
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... grace to grace a gentleman . e again a metrical arrangement in the original of this and the preceding speech of which scarcely looks like accident . ( See p . 18. ) It is not , however , the versification e's early plays ; but , if not ...
... grace to grace a gentleman . e again a metrical arrangement in the original of this and the preceding speech of which scarcely looks like accident . ( See p . 18. ) It is not , however , the versification e's early plays ; but , if not ...
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... grace , there is a messenger That stays to bear my letters to my friends , And I am going to deliver them . DUKE . Be they of much import ? VAL . The tenor of them doth but signify My health , and happy being at your court . DUKE . Nay ...
... grace , there is a messenger That stays to bear my letters to my friends , And I am going to deliver them . DUKE . Be they of much import ? VAL . The tenor of them doth but signify My health , and happy being at your court . DUKE . Nay ...
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... grace win her to fancy him ? DUKE . No , trust me ; she is peevish , sullen , froward , Proud , disobedient , stubborn , lacking duty ; Neither regarding that she is my child , Nor fearing me as if I were her father : And , may I say to ...
... grace win her to fancy him ? DUKE . No , trust me ; she is peevish , sullen , froward , Proud , disobedient , stubborn , lacking duty ; Neither regarding that she is my child , Nor fearing me as if I were her father : And , may I say to ...
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Antipholus Antonio Appears Bassanio Ben Jonson Bianca BIRON BOYET Costard daughter Demetrius dost doth Dromio ducats DUKE Enter Ephesus Exeunt Exit eyes fair father fool gentle gentleman give grace Grumio hath hear heart heaven Helena Hermia honour Hortensio Kate KATH KATHARINA KING knave lady LAUN letter look lord Love's Labour's Lost Lucentio Lysander madam maid marry master mean Merchant of Venice merry mistress moon never night oath original Padua passage Petrucio play Pompey Portia pray Proteus Pyramus quartos reading ring Rousillon SCENE second folio servant Shakspere Shakspere's Shrew Shylock signior Silvia sirrah speak SPEED Steevens swear sweet tell thee Theseus thine thou art thou hast Thurio Titania tongue Tranio unto Valentine Venice wife word
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Page 221 - 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 crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Page 436 - 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 532 - 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 us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew...
Page 555 - But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this— That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation; we do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much To mitigate the justice of thy plea, Which if thou follow, this strict court...
Page 48 - Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her ? Holy, fair, and wise is she, The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired' be. Is she kind as she is fair ? For beauty lives with kindness : Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness; And, being helped, inhabits there. Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling ; She excels each mortal thing, Upon the dull earth dwelling: To her let us garlands bring.
Page 508 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 536 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Page 500 - Believe me, no : I thank my fortune for it, My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place; nor is my whole estate Upon the fortune of this present year : Therefore my merchandise makes me not sad.
Page 565 - For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood : If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music : therefore the poet - Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods ; Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage,...
Page 191 - And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs ; O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility. From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world; Else, none at all in aught proves excellent: Then fools you were, these...