The Family Shakspeare: In One Volume : in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family |
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I can hardly imagine a more pleasing occupation for a winter's evening in the country , than for a father to read one of Shakspeare's plays to his family circle . My object is to enable him to do so without incurring the danger of ...
I can hardly imagine a more pleasing occupation for a winter's evening in the country , than for a father to read one of Shakspeare's plays to his family circle . My object is to enable him to do so without incurring the danger of ...
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Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA . How thou cam'st here , thou may'st . Mira . Pro . Twelve years since , But that I do not . Mira . If by your art , my dearest father , you Miranda , twelve years since , thy father was have ...
Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA . How thou cam'st here , thou may'st . Mira . Pro . Twelve years since , But that I do not . Mira . If by your art , my dearest father , you Miranda , twelve years since , thy father was have ...
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My father's loss , the weakness which The wreck of all my friends , or this man's threats , feel , To whom I am subdued , are but light to me , Might I but through my prison once a day Behold this maid ; all corners else o ' the earth ...
My father's loss , the weakness which The wreck of all my friends , or this man's threats , feel , To whom I am subdued , are but light to me , Might I but through my prison once a day Behold this maid ; all corners else o ' the earth ...
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Miranda : : - O my father , I have broke your hest to say so ! Fer . Admir'd Miranda ! Indeed , the top of admiration ; worth What's dearest to the world ! Full many a lady I have ey'd with best regard ; and many a time The harmony of ...
Miranda : : - O my father , I have broke your hest to say so ! Fer . Admir'd Miranda ! Indeed , the top of admiration ; worth What's dearest to the world ! Full many a lady I have ey'd with best regard ; and many a time The harmony of ...
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Now come I to my father ; Father , your blessing ; now should not the shoe speak a word for weeping ; now should I kiss my father ; well , he weeps on : - now come I to my mother , ( O , that she could speak now ! ) ...
Now come I to my father ; Father , your blessing ; now should not the shoe speak a word for weeping ; now should I kiss my father ; well , he weeps on : - now come I to my mother , ( O , that she could speak now ! ) ...
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| Title | The Family Shakspeare: In One Volume : in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family |
| Authors | William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler |
| Publisher | Longman, Greeen, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1863 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 26 Nov 2008 |
| Length | 910 pages |
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