The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from Each Play, with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper Heads |
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Page xlvii
... it is not extraordinary to find that he availed himself of the first moment of independence , to abandon the histrionic part of his double profession . This * Motley , i , e . , a fool , a buffoon . occurred so early as 1604.
... it is not extraordinary to find that he availed himself of the first moment of independence , to abandon the histrionic part of his double profession . This * Motley , i , e . , a fool , a buffoon . occurred so early as 1604.
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I know him a notorious liar , Think him a great way fool , solely a coward ; Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him , That they take place , when virtue's steely bones Look bleak in the cold wind . THE REMEDY OF EVILS GENERALLY IN ...
I know him a notorious liar , Think him a great way fool , solely a coward ; Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him , That they take place , when virtue's steely bones Look bleak in the cold wind . THE REMEDY OF EVILS GENERALLY IN ...
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Rust , sword ! cool , blushes ! and , Parolles live , Safest in shame ! being fool'd , by foolery thrive ! There's place , and means , for every man alive . ACT V. AGAINST DELAY . Let's take the instant by the forward top ; For we ...
Rust , sword ! cool , blushes ! and , Parolles live , Safest in shame ! being fool'd , by foolery thrive ! There's place , and means , for every man alive . ACT V. AGAINST DELAY . Let's take the instant by the forward top ; For we ...
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... dappled fools , — Being native burghers of this desert city ,Should , in their own confines , with forked heads , * Have their round haunches gor'd . 1 Lord . Indeed , my lord , The melancholy Jaques grieves at that ; And , in that ...
... dappled fools , — Being native burghers of this desert city ,Should , in their own confines , with forked heads , * Have their round haunches gor'd . 1 Lord . Indeed , my lord , The melancholy Jaques grieves at that ; And , in that ...
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The wretched animal heav'd forth such groans , That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat Almost to bursting ; and the big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase : and thus the hairy fool , Much ...
The wretched animal heav'd forth such groans , That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat Almost to bursting ; and the big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase : and thus the hairy fool , Much ...
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