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Indeed , must not all the humor of the mock play in the Midsummer Night's Dream have failed in its intent , unless the audience before whom it was performed were accustomed to be gratified by the combination of all the embellishments ...
Indeed , must not all the humor of the mock play in the Midsummer Night's Dream have failed in its intent , unless the audience before whom it was performed were accustomed to be gratified by the combination of all the embellishments ...
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... Henry the Fourth , Richard the Third , Romeo and Juliet , The Midsummer Night's Dream , Two Gentlemen of Verona , The Comedy of Errors , The Love's Labor Lost , The Love's Labor Won , * and The Merchant of Venice .
... Henry the Fourth , Richard the Third , Romeo and Juliet , The Midsummer Night's Dream , Two Gentlemen of Verona , The Comedy of Errors , The Love's Labor Lost , The Love's Labor Won , * and The Merchant of Venice .
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What is't I dream on O cunning enemy , that , to catch a saint , With saints dost bait thy hook ! Most dangerous Is that temptation , that doth goad us on To sin in loving virtue : never could the strumpet , With all her double vigour ...
What is't I dream on O cunning enemy , that , to catch a saint , With saints dost bait thy hook ! Most dangerous Is that temptation , that doth goad us on To sin in loving virtue : never could the strumpet , With all her double vigour ...
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... serpigo , † and the rheum , For ending thee no sooner : Thou hast nor youth , nor age : But , as it were , an after - dinner's sleep , Dreaming on both : for all thy blessed youth Becomes as aged , and doth beg the alms Of palsied ...
... serpigo , † and the rheum , For ending thee no sooner : Thou hast nor youth , nor age : But , as it were , an after - dinner's sleep , Dreaming on both : for all thy blessed youth Becomes as aged , and doth beg the alms Of palsied ...
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... Are stuck upon thee ! volumes of report Run with these false and most contrarious quests Upon thy doings ! thousand ' scapes * of wit Make thee the father of their idle dream , And rack thee in their fancies . SOUND SLEEP .
... Are stuck upon thee ! volumes of report Run with these false and most contrarious quests Upon thy doings ! thousand ' scapes * of wit Make thee the father of their idle dream , And rack thee in their fancies . SOUND SLEEP .
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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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