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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He answered , to see his god - father Shhakspeare . There's a good boy , said the other , but have a care that you don't take God's name in vain . This story Mr. Pope told me at the Earl of Oxford's table , upon occasion of some ...
He answered , to see his god - father Shhakspeare . There's a good boy , said the other , but have a care that you don't take God's name in vain . This story Mr. Pope told me at the Earl of Oxford's table , upon occasion of some ...
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The volume , which is in the handwriting of the time of Charles the First , is among Rawlinson's collections , in the Bodelain Library , and contains the following epitaph : " When God was pleas'd , the world unwilling yet , Elias James ...
The volume , which is in the handwriting of the time of Charles the First , is among Rawlinson's collections , in the Bodelain Library , and contains the following epitaph : " When God was pleas'd , the world unwilling yet , Elias James ...
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Schlegel , ' had laid all their treasures at his feet : in strength a demi - god , in profundity of view a prophet , in all - seeing wisdom a protecting spirit of a higher order , he yet lowered himself to mortals , as if unconscious of ...
Schlegel , ' had laid all their treasures at his feet : in strength a demi - god , in profundity of view a prophet , in all - seeing wisdom a protecting spirit of a higher order , he yet lowered himself to mortals , as if unconscious of ...
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Subtle as sphinx , as sweet and musical , As bright Apollo's lute , strung with his hair : And , when love speaks , the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony . Never durst poet touch a pen to write , Until his ink ...
Subtle as sphinx , as sweet and musical , As bright Apollo's lute , strung with his hair : And , when love speaks , the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony . Never durst poet touch a pen to write , Until his ink ...
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Go to lord Angelo , And let him learn to know , when maidens sue , Men give like gods ; but when they weep and kneel , All their petitions are as freely theirs As they themselves would owe * them ACT II . ALL MEN FRAIL .
Go to lord Angelo , And let him learn to know , when maidens sue , Men give like gods ; but when they weep and kneel , All their petitions are as freely theirs As they themselves would owe * them ACT II . ALL MEN FRAIL .
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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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