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Page xxxvi
... the faint , general , and almost lost ideas he had of having once seen him act a part in one of his own comedies , wherein , being to personate a decrepit old man , he wore a long beard , and appeared so weak and drooping and unable ...
... the faint , general , and almost lost ideas he had of having once seen him act a part in one of his own comedies , wherein , being to personate a decrepit old man , he wore a long beard , and appeared so weak and drooping and unable ...
Page xliii
Mr. Ben Jonson and Mr. William Shakspeare , being merrie at a tavern , Mr. Jonson begins this for his epitaph : ' Here lies Ben Jonson , Who was once one" " He gives it to Mr. Shakspeare to make up , who presently writte ' That , while ...
Mr. Ben Jonson and Mr. William Shakspeare , being merrie at a tavern , Mr. Jonson begins this for his epitaph : ' Here lies Ben Jonson , Who was once one" " He gives it to Mr. Shakspeare to make up , who presently writte ' That , while ...
Page xlviii
His family always resided at Stratford , and thither he once a year repaired to them . In the privacy of his native town , all the affections of his heart appear to have been " garner'd up ; " and there , from his beginning to reap the ...
His family always resided at Stratford , and thither he once a year repaired to them . In the privacy of his native town , all the affections of his heart appear to have been " garner'd up ; " and there , from his beginning to reap the ...
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And , though I kill him not , I am the cause His death was so effected : better ' twere I met the ravin * lion when he roar'd With sharp constraint of hunger ; better ' twere That all the m series , which nature owes , Were mine at once ...
And , though I kill him not , I am the cause His death was so effected : better ' twere I met the ravin * lion when he roar'd With sharp constraint of hunger ; better ' twere That all the m series , which nature owes , Were mine at once ...
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The time was once , when thou unurg'd would'st VOW That never words were music to thine ear , That never object pleasing in thine eye , That never touch well - welcome to thy hand , That never meet sweet - savour'd in thy taste , Unless ...
The time was once , when thou unurg'd would'st VOW That never words were music to thine ear , That never object pleasing in thine eye , That never touch well - welcome to thy hand , That never meet sweet - savour'd in thy taste , Unless ...
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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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