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Page xxiii
... states , that Shakspeare's first expedient was to wait at the door of the play - house , and hold the horses of those who rode to the theatre , and had no servants to take charge of them during the hours of performance .
... states , that Shakspeare's first expedient was to wait at the door of the play - house , and hold the horses of those who rode to the theatre , and had no servants to take charge of them during the hours of performance .
Page xxvi
The conduct of the audience was less restrained by the sense of public decorum , and smoking tobacco , playing at cards , eating and drinking , were generally prevalent among them : the hour of performance also was earlier ; the play ...
The conduct of the audience was less restrained by the sense of public decorum , and smoking tobacco , playing at cards , eating and drinking , were generally prevalent among them : the hour of performance also was earlier ; the play ...
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The ambition in my love thus plagues itself : The hind that would be mated by the lion , Must die for love . ' Twas pretty , though a plague To see him every hour ; to sit and draw His arched brows , his hawking eye , his curls ...
The ambition in my love thus plagues itself : The hind that would be mated by the lion , Must die for love . ' Twas pretty , though a plague To see him every hour ; to sit and draw His arched brows , his hawking eye , his curls ...
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When I did hear The motley fool thus moral on the time , My lungs began to crow like chanticleer , That fools should be so deep - contemplative ; And I did laugh , sans intermission , An hour by his dial - O noble fool ! A worthy fool !
When I did hear The motley fool thus moral on the time , My lungs began to crow like chanticleer , That fools should be so deep - contemplative ; And I did laugh , sans intermission , An hour by his dial - O noble fool ! A worthy fool !
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But whate'er you are , That in this desert inaccessible , Under the shade of melancholy boughs , Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days ; * Finery . If ever been where bells have knoll'd to ...
But whate'er you are , That in this desert inaccessible , Under the shade of melancholy boughs , Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days ; * Finery . If ever been where bells have knoll'd to ...
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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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