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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When all to time's consumption shall be given , Stanley , for whom this stands , shall stand in heaven . " Besides these inscriptions for the monument of Sir Thomas Stanly , which we have the authority of Dugdale , a Warwickshire man ...
When all to time's consumption shall be given , Stanley , for whom this stands , shall stand in heaven . " Besides these inscriptions for the monument of Sir Thomas Stanly , which we have the authority of Dugdale , a Warwickshire man ...
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Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie , Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope ; only , doth backward pull Our slow designs , when we ourselves are dull . CHARACTER OF A NOBLE COURTIER .
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie , Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope ; only , doth backward pull Our slow designs , when we ourselves are dull . CHARACTER OF A NOBLE COURTIER .
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Good - morrow , fool , quoth I : No , sir , quoth he , Call me not fool , till heaven hath sent me fortune · And then he drew a dial from his poke ; And looking on it with lack - lustre eye , Says , very wisely , It is ten o'clock ...
Good - morrow , fool , quoth I : No , sir , quoth he , Call me not fool , till heaven hath sent me fortune · And then he drew a dial from his poke ; And looking on it with lack - lustre eye , Says , very wisely , It is ten o'clock ...
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Study is like the heaven's glorious sun , That will not be deep - search'd with saucy looks Small have continual plodders ever won , Save base authority from others ' books . These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights , That give a ...
Study is like the heaven's glorious sun , That will not be deep - search'd with saucy looks Small have continual plodders ever won , Save base authority from others ' books . These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights , That give a ...
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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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| 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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