The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 3Jefferson Press, 1907 |
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Page xiv
... poor but honest " whom a feudal countess desires for the bride of her boy ! This Countess has loved in her day , and is veterum haud immemor amorum . Helena's virtues in like sort conquer the Florentine widow . Her sex adores her ...
... poor but honest " whom a feudal countess desires for the bride of her boy ! This Countess has loved in her day , and is veterum haud immemor amorum . Helena's virtues in like sort conquer the Florentine widow . Her sex adores her ...
Page xv
... poor and lowly ; she loves a man who is far her superior in rank , who repays her love with in- difference , and rejects her hand with scorn . She marries him against his will ; he leaves her with contumely on the day of their marriage ...
... poor and lowly ; she loves a man who is far her superior in rank , who repays her love with in- difference , and rejects her hand with scorn . She marries him against his will ; he leaves her with contumely on the day of their marriage ...
Page xviii
... poor creature , small beer ! I'll take up that empty little babyish Love's Labour's Won ' of my salad days . I shall make Helena a perfect woman , nobly planned to warn , to comfort , and command , and I shall show how her whole moral ...
... poor creature , small beer ! I'll take up that empty little babyish Love's Labour's Won ' of my salad days . I shall make Helena a perfect woman , nobly planned to warn , to comfort , and command , and I shall show how her whole moral ...
Page xix
... poor creature : I thirst ! Then I must leave the peerless Helena in the arms of her moral poltroon , and add the cynical title , All's Well that Ends Well . ' ' Well , ' ha , ha ! Nothing is well , William feels far from well ...
... poor creature : I thirst ! Then I must leave the peerless Helena in the arms of her moral poltroon , and add the cynical title , All's Well that Ends Well . ' ' Well , ' ha , ha ! Nothing is well , William feels far from well ...
Page xxii
... poor Oliver Proudfoot , that honest Parolles of Perth , exercised his weapon . " Tongue , I must put you in a butter - woman's mouth , and buy myself another of Bajazet's mule , if you prattle me into these perils . " Why Bajazet's mule ...
... poor Oliver Proudfoot , that honest Parolles of Perth , exercised his weapon . " Tongue , I must put you in a butter - woman's mouth , and buy myself another of Bajazet's mule , if you prattle me into these perils . " Why Bajazet's mule ...
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Page 7 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Page xiii - It were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it, he is so above me : In his bright radiance and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.
Page 73 - I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear With hounds of Sparta : never did I hear Such gallant chiding; for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
Page 19 - Swifter than the moon's sphere ; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be : In their gold coats spots you see ; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours : I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Page 27 - That very time I saw, (but thou couldst not,) Flying between the cold -moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west; And...
Page 9 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 26 - Nor would I have him till I do deserve him; Yet never know how that desert should be. I know I love in vain, strive against hope; Yet in this captious and intenible sieve I still pour in the waters of my love And lack not to lose still: thus, Indian-like, Religious in mine error, I adore The sun, that looks upon his worshipper, But knows of him no more.
Page 43 - They say miracles are past ; and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors ; ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.