The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, with notes original and selected by S.W. Singer, and a life of the poet by C. Symmons, Part 25, Volume 10 |
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... seems not to have been printed till some years after his death ; being first published at Venice , in 1535 , under the title of ' La Giulietta : there is , however , a dateless copy by the same printer . In the dedication to Madonna ...
... seems not to have been printed till some years after his death ; being first published at Venice , in 1535 , under the title of ' La Giulietta : there is , however , a dateless copy by the same printer . In the dedication to Madonna ...
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... seems to have been common in Shakspeare's time . Decker , in his Dead Term , 1608 , describing the various groups that daily frequented St. Paul's Church , says , ' What swearing is there , what shoul- dering , what justling , what ...
... seems to have been common in Shakspeare's time . Decker , in his Dead Term , 1608 , describing the various groups that daily frequented St. Paul's Church , says , ' What swearing is there , what shoul- dering , what justling , what ...
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... seem long . Was that my father that went hence so fast ? Ben . It was : —What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours ? Rom . Not having that , which having makes them short . Ben . In love ? Rom . Out- Ben . Of love ? Rom . Out of her favour ...
... seem long . Was that my father that went hence so fast ? Ben . It was : —What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours ? Rom . Not having that , which having makes them short . Ben . In love ? Rom . Out- Ben . Of love ? Rom . Out of her favour ...
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... seems to be proverbial , as an instance of a figure which he calls the Rebound : - ' The maid that soon married is , soon marred is . ' The jingle between marr'd and made is likewise frequent among the old writers . So Sidney : : - ' Oh ...
... seems to be proverbial , as an instance of a figure which he calls the Rebound : - ' The maid that soon married is , soon marred is . ' The jingle between marr'd and made is likewise frequent among the old writers . So Sidney : : - ' Oh ...
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... seems to have been once common : it often occurs in old plays . We have one still in use of similar import : -To crack a bottle . io Heath says , ' Your lady's love ' is the love you bear to your lady , which , in our language , is ...
... seems to have been once common : it often occurs in old plays . We have one still in use of similar import : -To crack a bottle . io Heath says , ' Your lady's love ' is the love you bear to your lady , which , in our language , is ...
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Popular passages
Page 247 - O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 50 - And yet I wish but for the thing I have: My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Page 378 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: Which I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate.
Page 264 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe ? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Page 340 - 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 174 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on ; and yet, within a month — Let me not think on't. — Frailty, thy name is woman ! A little month!
Page 286 - Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain convocation of [politic] worms* are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.
Page 341 - I've done you wrong ; But pardon 't, as you are a gentleman. This presence knows, And you must needs have heard, how I am punish'd With sore distraction. What I have done, That might your nature, honour, and exception, Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness. Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes ? Never Hamlet : If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away, And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes, Then Hamlet does it not ; Hamlet denies it. Who does it then ? His madness. If't be so, Hamlet is of the faction...
Page 32 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid. Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut , Made by the joiner squirrel , or old grub , Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Page 247 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure.