Shakespeare's Principal PlaysCentury Company, 1927 - 957 pages |
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... young Pyra- mus and his love Thisbe" treats the same theme in burlesque. There are curious echoes from one play to the other, as if Shakespeare had both in mind, or was actually engaged in writing both, at the same time. Lysander's ...
... young Pyra- mus and his love Thisbe" treats the same theme in burlesque. There are curious echoes from one play to the other, as if Shakespeare had both in mind, or was actually engaged in writing both, at the same time. Lysander's ...
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... young Pyra - Majesties Comedians , and lately privately presented mus and his love Thisbe ” treats the same theme in by several apprentices for their harmless recreation , burlesque . There are curious echoes from one play with great ...
... young Pyra - Majesties Comedians , and lately privately presented mus and his love Thisbe ” treats the same theme in by several apprentices for their harmless recreation , burlesque . There are curious echoes from one play with great ...
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... young Pyra- Majesties Comedians , and lately privately presented mus and his love Thisbe " treats the same theme in by several apprentices for their harmless recreation , burlesque . There are curious echoes from one play with great ...
... young Pyra- Majesties Comedians , and lately privately presented mus and his love Thisbe " treats the same theme in by several apprentices for their harmless recreation , burlesque . There are curious echoes from one play with great ...
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... young squire , ) 135 Would imitate , and sail upon the land To fetch me trifles , and return again , As from a voyage , rich with merchandise . But she , being mortal , of that boy did die ; And for her sake I do rear up her boy , And ...
... young squire , ) 135 Would imitate , and sail upon the land To fetch me trifles , and return again , As from a voyage , rich with merchandise . But she , being mortal , of that boy did die ; And for her sake I do rear up her boy , And ...
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... young , till now ripe not to reason , And touching now the point of human skill , Reason becomes the marshal to my will , And leads me to your eyes , where I o'erlook Love's stories , written in love's richest book . Enter the Clowns ...
... young , till now ripe not to reason , And touching now the point of human skill , Reason becomes the marshal to my will , And leads me to your eyes , where I o'erlook Love's stories , written in love's richest book . Enter the Clowns ...
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Antony art thou Banquo Bardolph bear better blood brother Brutus Cæsar Cassio Claud Cleo cousin daugh daughter dead dear death Desdemona doth Duke Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair faith Falstaff Farewell father fear fool friends gentle gentleman give Glou grace Hamlet hand hath hear heart heaven Henry IV hither Holinshed honour Iago John Julius Cæsar Kent king lady Laertes Lear Leonato live look lord Macb Macbeth Macd madam majesty Malvolio Mark Antony marry master never night noble Othello peace Pedro Pist play Poins pray Prince quarto Queen Romeo Rosalind SCENE Shakespeare Shylock soul speak stand swear sweet sword tell thee there's thine thing thou art thou hast thought tongue true Tybalt unto villain wilt word
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Page 574 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont, Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. Now, by yond marble heaven, [Kneels] In the due reverence of a sacred vow I here engage my words.
Page 464 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man That love my friend, and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech To stir men's blood.
Page 510 - 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 villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 609 - ... necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on : an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star...
Page 495 - So, oft it chances in particular men, That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth, wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin, By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may...
Page 463 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening in his tent ; That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! in this place, ran Cassius...
Page 362 - They say he is already in the forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him ; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England. They say many young gentlemen flock to him every day, and fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.