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Then let us teach our trial patience , Because it is a customary cross ; As due to
love , as thoughts , and dreams , and sighs , Wishes , and tears , poor fancy ' s
followers . Lys . A good persuasion ; therefore , hear me , HerWe mia . I have a ...
Then let us teach our trial patience , Because it is a customary cross ; As due to
love , as thoughts , and dreams , and sighs , Wishes , and tears , poor fancy ' s
followers . Lys . A good persuasion ; therefore , hear me , HerWe mia . I have a ...
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You both are rivals , and love Hermia ; And now both rivals to mock Helena , A
trim exploit , a manly enterprise , To conjure tears up in a poor maid ' s eyes , With
your derision ! None of noble sort Would so offend a virgin , and extort A poor ...
You both are rivals , and love Hermia ; And now both rivals to mock Helena , A
trim exploit , a manly enterprise , To conjure tears up in a poor maid ' s eyes , With
your derision ! None of noble sort Would so offend a virgin , and extort A poor ...
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And will you rent our ancient love asunder , To join with men in scorning your
poor friend ? It is not friendly , ' tis not maidenly . Our sex , as well as I , may chide
you for it ; Though I alone do feel the injury . Her . I am amazed at your
passionate ...
And will you rent our ancient love asunder , To join with men in scorning your
poor friend ? It is not friendly , ' tis not maidenly . Our sex , as well as I , may chide
you for it ; Though I alone do feel the injury . Her . I am amazed at your
passionate ...
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Shine , comforts , from the east ; That I may back to Athens by day - light , From
these that my poor company detest .And , sleep , that sometimes shuts up sorrow
' s. 1 This exclamation would have been uttered with more propriety by Puck , if
he ...
Shine , comforts , from the east ; That I may back to Athens by day - light , From
these that my poor company detest .And , sleep , that sometimes shuts up sorrow
' s. 1 This exclamation would have been uttered with more propriety by Puck , if
he ...
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Cupid is a knavish lad , Thus to make poor females mad . Enter HERMIA . Her .
Never so weary , never so in woe , Bedabbled with the dew , and torn with briers ,
I can no farther crawl , no farther go ; My legs can keep no pace with my desires .
Cupid is a knavish lad , Thus to make poor females mad . Enter HERMIA . Her .
Never so weary , never so in woe , Bedabbled with the dew , and torn with briers ,
I can no farther crawl , no farther go ; My legs can keep no pace with my desires .
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Page 287 - With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose, well saved, 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 20 - 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 271 - 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.
Page 165 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!
Page 175 - If to do, were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
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| Title | The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr., embracing a life of the poet and notes, Volume 2 The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr., embracing a life of the poet and notes, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Published | 1850 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 16 May 2006 |
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