The Complete Works of William Shakespeare ...H. Frowde, 1910 |
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Page 68
... Claudio is made to believe in the infidelity of Hero . Sir John Harington's translation of the Orlando Furioso had appeared in 1591 , but we learn from him that an earlier version of the story which concerns us - that of Ariodante and ...
... Claudio is made to believe in the infidelity of Hero . Sir John Harington's translation of the Orlando Furioso had appeared in 1591 , but we learn from him that an earlier version of the story which concerns us - that of Ariodante and ...
Page 69
... Claudio plot . Nor , having arrived so far , need we do more than refer to Spenser's tale of Claribell and her handmaid Pryene in the Faerie Queene , Book II , Canto IV , nor to the German play of Jakob Ayrer Die Schöne Phoenicia , and ...
... Claudio plot . Nor , having arrived so far , need we do more than refer to Spenser's tale of Claribell and her handmaid Pryene in the Faerie Queene , Book II , Canto IV , nor to the German play of Jakob Ayrer Die Schöne Phoenicia , and ...
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... Claudio a hateful young cub ' ; but in comedy we must not press argument too hard against persons who are needful to evolve a plot . We must grant certain theatrical postulates now and again in order to secure at other times a true ...
... Claudio a hateful young cub ' ; but in comedy we must not press argument too hard against persons who are needful to evolve a plot . We must grant certain theatrical postulates now and again in order to secure at other times a true ...
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... CLAUDIO , a young Lord of Florence . BENEDICK , a young Lord of Padua . LEONATO , Governor of Messina . ANTONIO , his Brother . BALTHAZAR , Servant to Don Pedro . BORACHIO , followers of Don John . CONRADE , DOGBERRY , a Constable ...
... CLAUDIO , a young Lord of Florence . BENEDICK , a young Lord of Padua . LEONATO , Governor of Messina . ANTONIO , his Brother . BALTHAZAR , Servant to Don Pedro . BORACHIO , followers of Don John . CONRADE , DOGBERRY , a Constable ...
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... Claudio . II MESSENGER . Much deserved on his part and equally remembered by Don Pedro . He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age , doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion he hath indeed better bettered expectation ...
... Claudio . II MESSENGER . Much deserved on his part and equally remembered by Don Pedro . He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age , doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion he hath indeed better bettered expectation ...
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Page 99 - Sigh, no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in sea, and one on shore ; To one thing constant never : Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny ; Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Page 330 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 362 - Hath not a Jew eyes ? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is ? If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? If you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,...
Page 362 - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes ? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions ? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is ? If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall . we not revenge ? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Page 339 - Shylock, we would have moneys : ' you say so ; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold : moneys is your suit. What should I say to you ? Should I not say ' Hath a dog money ? is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats...
Page 386 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
Page 267 - 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 241 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Page 396 - Therefore, the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved 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 388 - a pound of flesh." Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh ; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice.