The Works of William Shakespeare: The Plays Ed. from the Folio of MDCXXIII, with Various Readings from All the Editions and All the Commentators, Notes, Introductory Remarks, a Historical Sketch of the Text, an Account of the Rise and Progress of the English Drama, a Memoir of the Poet, and an Essay Upon the Genius, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1857 |
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Page 26
... gentle Hermia , may I marry thee , And to that place the sharp Athenian law Cannot pursue us . If thou lov'st me , then , Steal forth thy father's house to - morrow night , And in the wood , a league without the town , ( Where I did ...
... gentle Hermia , may I marry thee , And to that place the sharp Athenian law Cannot pursue us . If thou lov'st me , then , Steal forth thy father's house to - morrow night , And in the wood , a league without the town , ( Where I did ...
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... . I grant you , friends , if that you should fright the ladies out of their wits , they would have no more discretion but to hang us ; but I will aggravate my voice so , that I will roar you as gently SC . II . 31 DREAM .
... . I grant you , friends , if that you should fright the ladies out of their wits , they would have no more discretion but to hang us ; but I will aggravate my voice so , that I will roar you as gently SC . II . 31 DREAM .
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... gently as any suck- ing dove : I will roar an ' twere any nightingale . Quin . You can play no part but Pyramus ; for Pyramus is a sweet - fac'd man ; a proper man , as one shall see in a summer's day , a most lovely , gentle- manlike ...
... gently as any suck- ing dove : I will roar an ' twere any nightingale . Quin . You can play no part but Pyramus ; for Pyramus is a sweet - fac'd man ; a proper man , as one shall see in a summer's day , a most lovely , gentle- manlike ...
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... gentle Puck , come hither : thou rememb'rest Since once I sat upon a promontory , And heard a mermaid , on a dolphin's back , Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath That the rude sea grew civil at her song , And certain stars shot ...
... gentle Puck , come hither : thou rememb'rest Since once I sat upon a promontory , And heard a mermaid , on a dolphin's back , Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath That the rude sea grew civil at her song , And certain stars shot ...
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... gentle friend , for love and courtesy Lie further off : in human modesty , Such separation as may well be said Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid- So far be distant ; and good night , sweet friend . Thy love ne'er alter till thy ...
... gentle friend , for love and courtesy Lie further off : in human modesty , Such separation as may well be said Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid- So far be distant ; and good night , sweet friend . Thy love ne'er alter till thy ...
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Page 26 - 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!
Page 37 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 310 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Page 227 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus : Let no such man be trusted.
Page 76 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was.
Page 309 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits, and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms...
Page 356 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : Sweet lovers love the spring.
Page 188 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? revenge: if a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? why, revenge. The villany you teach me I will execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Page 309 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon...
Page 292 - The seasons' difference, — as, the icy fang And churlish chiding of the Winter's wind, (Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, This is no flattery,) — these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.