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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Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground ! long heath , brown furze , any thing : The wills above be done ! but I would fain die a dry death . - [ Exit . Mira . You have often Begun to tell me what I am ...
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground ! long heath , brown furze , any thing : The wills above be done ! but I would fain die a dry death . - [ Exit . Mira . You have often Begun to tell me what I am ...
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Thou liest , malignant thing ! Hast thou forgot The foul witch Sycorax , who , with age and envy , Was grown into a hoop ? hast thou forgot her ? Ari . No , sir . Pro . Thou hast where was she born ? speak ; tell me . Ari .
Thou liest , malignant thing ! Hast thou forgot The foul witch Sycorax , who , with age and envy , Was grown into a hoop ? hast thou forgot her ? Ari . No , sir . Pro . Thou hast where was she born ? speak ; tell me . Ari .
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Took pains to make thee speak , taught thee each hour One thing or other when thou didst not , savage , Know thine own meaning , but would'st gabble like A thing most brutish , I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known ...
Took pains to make thee speak , taught thee each hour One thing or other when thou didst not , savage , Know thine own meaning , but would'st gabble like A thing most brutish , I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known ...
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A thing divine ; for nothing natural I ever saw so noble . Pro . I might call him It goes on , [ Aside . Spirit , fine spirit ! I'll As my soul prompts it : free thee Within two days for this . Fer . Most sure the goddess On whom these ...
A thing divine ; for nothing natural I ever saw so noble . Pro . I might call him It goes on , [ Aside . Spirit , fine spirit ! I'll As my soul prompts it : free thee Within two days for this . Fer . Most sure the goddess On whom these ...
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My dukedom since you have given me again , I will requite you with as good a thing ; At least , bring forth a wonder , to content ye As much as me my dukedom . The entrance of the cell opens , and discovers FERDI- NAND and MIRANDA ...
My dukedom since you have given me again , I will requite you with as good a thing ; At least , bring forth a wonder , to content ye As much as me my dukedom . The entrance of the cell opens , and discovers FERDI- NAND and MIRANDA ...
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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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