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... present edition of part of Milton's Poems is an attempt to turn an English classic to a stricter academic use than hitherto . Every competent critic acknowledges the im- mense value of a national literature ; and the desire has very ...
... present edition of part of Milton's Poems is an attempt to turn an English classic to a stricter academic use than hitherto . Every competent critic acknowledges the im- mense value of a national literature ; and the desire has very ...
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... present Work is intended to remove both of the hindrances referred to . The Plays have been abridged , so as to bring each of them within manageable limits . At the same time , all has been retained in each case that was needed to make ...
... present Work is intended to remove both of the hindrances referred to . The Plays have been abridged , so as to bring each of them within manageable limits . At the same time , all has been retained in each case that was needed to make ...
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... present a petition to him , he is stabbed at the base of Pompey's Pillar , first by Casca , then by his associates , and at last by Marcus Brutus . Afterwards Brutus , addressing the citizens in the Forum , endeavours to justify the ...
... present a petition to him , he is stabbed at the base of Pompey's Pillar , first by Casca , then by his associates , and at last by Marcus Brutus . Afterwards Brutus , addressing the citizens in the Forum , endeavours to justify the ...
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... present , I would not , so with love I might entreat you , Be any further moved . What you have said , I will consider ; what you have to say , I will with patience hear ; and find a time Both meet to hear and answer such high things ...
... present , I would not , so with love I might entreat you , Be any further moved . What you have said , I will consider ; what you have to say , I will with patience hear ; and find a time Both meet to hear and answer such high things ...
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... present sacrifice , And bring me their opinions of success . Serv . I will , my lord . Enter CALPURNIA . [ Exit . 270 Cal . What mean you , Cæsar ? think you to walk forth ? You shall not stir out of your house to - day . Cos . Cæsar ...
... present sacrifice , And bring me their opinions of success . Serv . I will , my lord . Enter CALPURNIA . [ Exit . 270 Cal . What mean you , Cæsar ? think you to walk forth ? You shall not stir out of your house to - day . Cos . Cæsar ...
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bear blood Brutus and Cassius Caes Casca Cassius clause Clitus Cordelia crown daughter dead dear death DECIUS deed Doct dost doth Exeunt Exit eyes Farewell father fear fire follow fool foul Fourth Cit friends Gent Ghost give Glou Gloucester Goneril GUILDENSTERN Hamlet hand hath hear heart heaven honour Horatio ides of March intransitive verbs is't Julius Cæsar Kent King KING LEAR Lady Laer Laertes Lear live look lord Lucius Macb Macbeth madness Marcus Brutus Mark Antony means mother murder night noble o'er Octavius Ophelia participle Philippi pity play poisoned Polonius poor pray Publius Queen Regan Richard II Roman Rome Scene Shakespeare sleep soul speak sweet sword tell thane thee There's thine Third Cit thou art Titinius to-night tongue verb Volumnius Witch word wrong
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Page 286 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 310 - That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Page 273 - I had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a thing as I m,yself.
Page 273 - tis true, this god did shake : His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried ' Give me some drink, Titinius,
Page 289 - If you have tears prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii : Look, in this place ran Cassius...
Page 358 - Like the poor cat i' the adage? Macb. Prithee, peace I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Lady M. What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man.
Page 275 - Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Page 317 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 333 - See what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 402 - I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news ; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses,- and who wins ; who's in, who's out ; And take...