Characters of Shakespeare's PlaysWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 229 pages |
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... NIGHT'S DREAM 64 70 77 85 ROMEO AND JULIET LEAR RICHARD II . 91 103 116 HENRY IV . IN TWO PARTS 123 HENRY V. 132 x • HENRY VI . IN THREE Parts 140 RICHARD III . 148 HENRY VIII . 155 KING JOHN 159 TWELFTH NIGHT ; OR , WHAT YOU WILL 164 ...
... NIGHT'S DREAM 64 70 77 85 ROMEO AND JULIET LEAR RICHARD II . 91 103 116 HENRY IV . IN TWO PARTS 123 HENRY V. 132 x • HENRY VI . IN THREE Parts 140 RICHARD III . 148 HENRY VIII . 155 KING JOHN 159 TWELFTH NIGHT ; OR , WHAT YOU WILL 164 ...
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... night ! And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell , That my keen knife see not the wound it makes , Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark , To cry , hold , hold ! ” - When she first hears that " Duncan comes there to sleep ...
... night ! And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell , That my keen knife see not the wound it makes , Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark , To cry , hold , hold ! ” - When she first hears that " Duncan comes there to sleep ...
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... sight of nothing that could in any way give relief or heightening to his subject , is the conversation which takes place between Banquo and Fleance immediately before the murder of Duncan . " BANQUO . How goes the night , boy ? 14 MACBETH .
... sight of nothing that could in any way give relief or heightening to his subject , is the conversation which takes place between Banquo and Fleance immediately before the murder of Duncan . " BANQUO . How goes the night , boy ? 14 MACBETH .
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William Hazlitt. " BANQUO . How goes the night , boy ? FLEANCE . The moon is down : I have not heard the clock . BANQUO . And she goes down at twelve . FLEANCE . I take ' t , ' tis later , Sir . BANQUO . Hold , take my sword . There's ...
William Hazlitt. " BANQUO . How goes the night , boy ? FLEANCE . The moon is down : I have not heard the clock . BANQUO . And she goes down at twelve . FLEANCE . I take ' t , ' tis later , Sir . BANQUO . Hold , take my sword . There's ...
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... night before the battle . Nature had played him the same forgetful trick once before on the night of the conspiracy . The humanity of Brutus is the same on both occasions . " It is no matter : Enjoy the honey heavy dew of slumber . Thou ...
... night before the battle . Nature had played him the same forgetful trick once before on the night of the conspiracy . The humanity of Brutus is the same on both occasions . " It is no matter : Enjoy the honey heavy dew of slumber . Thou ...
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Page 144 - Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 167 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Page 73 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 73 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Page 104 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 84 - Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page xx - Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Page 112 - Lear. Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less ; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
Page 210 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Page 101 - Ah ! dear Juliet, Why art thou yet so fair ? Shall I believe That unsubstantial Death is amorous, And that the lean abhorred monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour ? For fear of that I...