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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... from the very nature of things : it is the author who records and puts into shape the old wives ' stories . That - 66 the occurrence of the phrase " mad merry A 2 INTRODUCTION . 9 years before the date of the earliest copy now known ...
... from the very nature of things : it is the author who records and puts into shape the old wives ' stories . That - 66 the occurrence of the phrase " mad merry A 2 INTRODUCTION . 9 years before the date of the earliest copy now known ...
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... thing : My need doth make me aske . " Here the last word should plainly be , and originally was , axe , ' * See Brydges ' British Bibliographer , Vol . I. p . 185 , and Wotton and Raleigh's Poems , Ed . John Hannay . 6 ( the early form ...
... thing : My need doth make me aske . " Here the last word should plainly be , and originally was , axe , ' * See Brydges ' British Bibliographer , Vol . I. p . 185 , and Wotton and Raleigh's Poems , Ed . John Hannay . 6 ( the early form ...
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... things done by Robin Goodfellow , or oth- erwise called Hob - goblin , and his companions , by turning him- self into diverse sundry shapes . " For the evidence that Robin Goodfellow was not called Hobgoblin until Shakespeare gave him ...
... things done by Robin Goodfellow , or oth- erwise called Hob - goblin , and his companions , by turning him- self into diverse sundry shapes . " For the evidence that Robin Goodfellow was not called Hobgoblin until Shakespeare gave him ...
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... things come to confusion . Her . If , then , true lovers have been ever crossed , It stands as an edict in destiny : Then , let us teach our trial patience , Because it is a customary cross , As due to love as thoughts , and dreams ...
... things come to confusion . Her . If , then , true lovers have been ever crossed , It stands as an edict in destiny : Then , let us teach our trial patience , Because it is a customary cross , As due to love as thoughts , and dreams ...
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... thing , then , she waking looks upon , ( Be it on lion , bear , or wolf , or bull , On meddling monkey , or on busy ape , ) She shall pursue it with the soul of love ; And ere I take this charm off from her sight , ( As I can take it ...
... thing , then , she waking looks upon , ( Be it on lion , bear , or wolf , or bull , On meddling monkey , or on busy ape , ) She shall pursue it with the soul of love ; And ere I take this charm off from her sight , ( As I can take it ...
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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.