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The mightiest space in fortune nature brings To join like likes , and kiss like native
things . I Impossible be strange attempts , to those That weigh their. * 1 . e . and
show by realities what we now must only think . † 1 . e . thou wilt comprehend it .
The mightiest space in fortune nature brings To join like likes , and kiss like native
things . I Impossible be strange attempts , to those That weigh their. * 1 . e . and
show by realities what we now must only think . † 1 . e . thou wilt comprehend it .
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... quoth he , After my flame lacks oil , to be the snuff Of younger spirits , whose
apprehensive senses All but new things disdain ; whose judginents are Mere
fathers of their garments ; * whose constancies Expire before their fashions : This
he ...
... quoth he , After my flame lacks oil , to be the snuff Of younger spirits , whose
apprehensive senses All but new things disdain ; whose judginents are Mere
fathers of their garments ; * whose constancies Expire before their fashions : This
he ...
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Inspired merit so by breath is barrd : It is not so with him that all things knows , As '
tis with us that square our guess by shows : But most it is presumption in us ,
when The help of heaven we count the act of men . Dear Sir , to my endeavours ...
Inspired merit so by breath is barrd : It is not so with him that all things knows , As '
tis with us that square our guess by shows : But most it is presumption in us ,
when The help of heaven we count the act of men . Dear Sir , to my endeavours ...
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I ne ' er had worse luck in my life , in my - 0 Lord , Sir : I see , things may serve
long , but not serve ever . Count . I play the noble housewife with the time , to
entertain it so merrily with a fool . Clo . O Lord , Sir , - Why , there ' t serves well
again .
I ne ' er had worse luck in my life , in my - 0 Lord , Sir : I see , things may serve
long , but not serve ever . Count . I play the noble housewife with the time , to
entertain it so merrily with a fool . Clo . O Lord , Sir , - Why , there ' t serves well
again .
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From lowest place when virtuous things proceed , The place is dignified by the
doer ' s deed : Where great additions * swell , and virtue none , It is a dropsied
honour : good alone Is good , without a name : vileness is so : | The property by
what ...
From lowest place when virtuous things proceed , The place is dignified by the
doer ' s deed : Where great additions * swell , and virtue none , It is a dropsied
honour : good alone Is good , without a name : vileness is so : | The property by
what ...
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Page 432 - With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And, in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king ? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 391 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it ? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why? Detraction will, not suffer it: — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 162 - What you do Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet, I'd have you do it ever ; when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too : when you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
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Page 161 - Say there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean : so, o'er that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art ~\\ hich does mend nature, — change it rather ; but The art itself is nature.
Page 326 - As, in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious ; Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard; no man cried, God save him...
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| Title | Dramatic Works: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, Life, Etc, Volume 2 Dramatic Works: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, Life, Etc, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | William Hazlitt |
| Publisher | Routledge, 1852 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 Feb 2008 |
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