The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, with Biographical Introduction by Henry Glassford Bell...Porteous, 1865 |
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... never be her mild companion . Ye gods , that made me man , and sway in love , That have inflam'd desire in my breast To taste the fruit of yon celestial tree , Or die in the adventure , be my helps , As I am son and servant to your will ...
... never be her mild companion . Ye gods , that made me man , and sway in love , That have inflam'd desire in my breast To taste the fruit of yon celestial tree , Or die in the adventure , be my helps , As I am son and servant to your will ...
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... never comes but brings an heir That may succeed as his inheritor ; And so in ours : some neighbouring nation , Taking advantage of our misery , Hath stuff'd these hollow vessels with their power , To beat us down , the which are down ...
... never comes but brings an heir That may succeed as his inheritor ; And so in ours : some neighbouring nation , Taking advantage of our misery , Hath stuff'd these hollow vessels with their power , To beat us down , the which are down ...
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... poor fry before him , and at last devours them all at a mouthful : such whales have I heard on the land , who never leave H gaping till they've swallow'd the whole parish , church , 16 ACT II . PERICLES , PRINCE OF TYRE .
... poor fry before him , and at last devours them all at a mouthful : such whales have I heard on the land , who never leave H gaping till they've swallow'd the whole parish , church , 16 ACT II . PERICLES , PRINCE OF TYRE .
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... never used to beg . 1 Fish . No , friend , cannot you beg ? here's them in our country of Greece gets more with begging than we can do with working . 2 Fish . Canst thou catch any fishes , then ? Per . I never practised it . 2 Fish ...
... never used to beg . 1 Fish . No , friend , cannot you beg ? here's them in our country of Greece gets more with begging than we can do with working . 2 Fish . Canst thou catch any fishes , then ? Per . I never practised it . 2 Fish ...
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... never more to view nor day nor light . ' Tis well , mistress ; your choice agrees with mine ; I like that well : nay , how absolute she's in't , Not minding whether I dislike or no ! Well , I do commend her choice ; And will no longer ...
... never more to view nor day nor light . ' Tis well , mistress ; your choice agrees with mine ; I like that well : nay , how absolute she's in't , Not minding whether I dislike or no ! Well , I do commend her choice ; And will no longer ...
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art thou Bawd BENVOLIO beseech better blood Boult BRABANTIO CAPULET Cassio CLEON Cordelia Cyprus daughter dead dear death Desdemona DIONYZA dost thou doth Duke Emil Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair farewell father fear fool foul FRIAR LAWRENCE Gent gentleman give GLOSTER gods grief Guil Hamlet hath hear heart heaven hither honest honour Horatio Iago is't Juliet Kent king knave lady Laer Laertes Lear look lord LYSIMACHUS madam marry matter Mercutio Michael Cassio mistress murder never night noble Nurse o'er OTHELLO Pericles poison'd POLONIUS poor pr'ythee pray prince Prince of Tyre Queen Re-enter Roderigo Romeo SCENE soul speak sweet sword tell thee there's thine thou art thou hast to-night Tybalt villain weep What's wife wilt
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Page 270 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus; but use all gently: for in the very torrent, tempest, and — as I may say — whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness. O! it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for...
Page 139 - No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; — And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects...
Page 270 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 292 - How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge ! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused.
Page 362 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Page 258 - I have of late (but wherefore, I know not) lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.
Page 316 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all.
Page 265 - For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ, I'll have these players Play something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative...
Page 271 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 242 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!