The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere, Volume 1Charles Knight, 1851 |
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... play written very early in Shak- spere's life . The scene of this play is , in the first act , at Verona , and afterwards chiefly at Milan . The action is not founded upon any histori- cal event . The one historical fact men- tioned in ...
... play written very early in Shak- spere's life . The scene of this play is , in the first act , at Verona , and afterwards chiefly at Milan . The action is not founded upon any histori- cal event . The one historical fact men- tioned in ...
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... play'd the sheep in losing him . PRO . Indeed a sheep doth very often stray , An if the shepherd be a while away . [ Exit VALENTINE . SPEED . You conclude that my master is a shepherd then , and I a sheep ? PRO . I do . SPEED . Why then ...
... play'd the sheep in losing him . PRO . Indeed a sheep doth very often stray , An if the shepherd be a while away . [ Exit VALENTINE . SPEED . You conclude that my master is a shepherd then , and I a sheep ? PRO . I do . SPEED . Why then ...
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... play together - were called the consort ; and so was the selection of music they performed - modernized into concert . b Dump - a mournful elegy . Dump , or dumps , for sorrow , was not originally a burlesque " My sinews dull , in dumps ...
... play together - were called the consort ; and so was the selection of music they performed - modernized into concert . b Dump - a mournful elegy . Dump , or dumps , for sorrow , was not originally a burlesque " My sinews dull , in dumps ...
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... play but one thing . JUL . I would always have one play but one thing . But , host , doth this sir Proteus , that we talk on , Often resort unto this gentlewoman ? HOST . I tell you what Launce , his man , told me , he loved her out of ...
... play but one thing . JUL . I would always have one play but one thing . But , host , doth this sir Proteus , that we talk on , Often resort unto this gentlewoman ? HOST . I tell you what Launce , his man , told me , he loved her out of ...
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... play the cur with him , look you , it goes hard : one that I brought up of a puppy ; one that I saved from drowning , when three or four of his blind brothers and sisters went to it ! I have taught him- even as one would say precisely ...
... play the cur with him , look you , it goes hard : one that I brought up of a puppy ; one that I saved from drowning , when three or four of his blind brothers and sisters went to it ! I have taught him- even as one would say precisely ...
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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 469 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was : man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was — there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, — and methought I had, — but man is but a patched fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had.
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 220 - 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 crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who...
Page 191 - 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...
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