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Page xlviii
If tradition may be trusted , Shakspeare often baited at the Crown Inn or Tavern in Oxford , in his journey to and from London . The landlady was a woman of great beauty and sprightly wit , and her husband ...
If tradition may be trusted , Shakspeare often baited at the Crown Inn or Tavern in Oxford , in his journey to and from London . The landlady was a woman of great beauty and sprightly wit , and her husband ...
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But do not so : I have five hundred crowns , The thrifty hire I sav'd under your father , Which I did store , to be my foster - nurse , When service should in my old limbs lie lame , And unregarded age in corners thrown ; Take that ...
But do not so : I have five hundred crowns , The thrifty hire I sav'd under your father , Which I did store , to be my foster - nurse , When service should in my old limbs lie lame , And unregarded age in corners thrown ; Take that ...
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No ceremony that to great ones ' longs , Not the king's crown , nor the deputed sword , The marshal's truncheon , nor the judge's robe , Become them with one half so good a grace , As mercy does . THE DUTY OF MUTUAL FORGIVENESS Alas ...
No ceremony that to great ones ' longs , Not the king's crown , nor the deputed sword , The marshal's truncheon , nor the judge's robe , Become them with one half so good a grace , As mercy does . THE DUTY OF MUTUAL FORGIVENESS Alas ...
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... it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown : His sceptre shows the force of temporal power The attribute to awe and majesty , Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptre'd sway .
... it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown : His sceptre shows the force of temporal power The attribute to awe and majesty , Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptre'd sway .
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... That rheumatic diseases do abound : And through this distemperature , we see The seasons alter : hoary - headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose ; And on old Hyems ' chin , an icy crown , An odorous chaplet of sweet ...
... That rheumatic diseases do abound : And through this distemperature , we see The seasons alter : hoary - headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose ; And on old Hyems ' chin , an icy crown , An odorous chaplet of sweet ...
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| Title | The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from Each Play, with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper Heads |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Compiled by | William Dodd |
| Publisher | Phillips, Sampson, 1849 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 4 May 2010 |
| Length | 345 pages |
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