The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 7R. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... ( says Harington ) is a pretie comical matter , and hath bin written in English verse some few years past , learnedly and with good grace , though in verse of an- other kind , by M. George Turbervil . " Ariosto , fol . 1591 , p . 39 ...
... ( says Harington ) is a pretie comical matter , and hath bin written in English verse some few years past , learnedly and with good grace , though in verse of an- other kind , by M. George Turbervil . " Ariosto , fol . 1591 , p . 39 ...
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... says not a word , nor any one else that I know of , about the reason of this abruption . The truth is , Beatrice starts an idea at the words stuffed man ; and prudently checks herself in the pursuit of it . A stuffed man was one of the ...
... says not a word , nor any one else that I know of , about the reason of this abruption . The truth is , Beatrice starts an idea at the words stuffed man ; and prudently checks herself in the pursuit of it . A stuffed man was one of the ...
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... ( says our poet's Auto- lycus ) and my name be put in the book of virtue . " MALONE . There is a MS . of Lord Burleigh's , in the Marquis of Lans- downe's library , wherein , among many other household concerns , he has entered the names ...
... ( says our poet's Auto- lycus ) and my name be put in the book of virtue . " MALONE . There is a MS . of Lord Burleigh's , in the Marquis of Lans- downe's library , wherein , among many other household concerns , he has entered the names ...
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... says , if I had really confided such a secret to him , yet he would have blabbed it in this manner . In his next speech , he thinks proper to avow his love ; and when Benedick says , God forbid it should be so , i . e . God forbid he ...
... says , if I had really confided such a secret to him , yet he would have blabbed it in this manner . In his next speech , he thinks proper to avow his love ; and when Benedick says , God forbid it should be so , i . e . God forbid he ...
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... says : " The cat in the barrel exhibits such a farce , - " That he who can relish it is worse than an ass . " Douce . and he that hits me , let him be clapped on the shoulder , and called ADAM . ] But why should he therefore be called ...
... says : " The cat in the barrel exhibits such a farce , - " That he who can relish it is worse than an ass . " Douce . and he that hits me , let him be clapped on the shoulder , and called ADAM . ] But why should he therefore be called ...
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Page 317 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me.
Page 323 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep...
Page 339 - Suit the action to the word, the word to the action: with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form, and pressure.
Page 393 - 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 335 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue ; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do ', I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 206 - God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Page 315 - A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward? Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face? Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs?
Page 344 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 506 - tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all : Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows, what is't to leave betimes ?
Page 341 - O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of christians, nor the gait of christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.