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So , oft it chances in particular men , That , for some vicious mole of nature in
them , As , in their birth , ( wherein they are not guilty , Since nature cannot
choose his origin , ) By the o'er - growth of some complexion , Oft breaking down
the pales ...
So , oft it chances in particular men , That , for some vicious mole of nature in
them , As , in their birth , ( wherein they are not guilty , Since nature cannot
choose his origin , ) By the o'er - growth of some complexion , Oft breaking down
the pales ...
Page 80
Be not too tame neither , but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action
to the word , the word to the action ; with this special observance , that you o'er -
step not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of ...
Be not too tame neither , but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action
to the word , the word to the action ; with this special observance , that you o'er -
step not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of ...
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104 Nature is fine in love : and , where ' tis fine , It sends some precious instance
of itself After the thing it loves . ] These lines are not in the quarto , and might have
been omitted in the folio without great loss , for they are obscure and affected ...
104 Nature is fine in love : and , where ' tis fine , It sends some precious instance
of itself After the thing it loves . ] These lines are not in the quarto , and might have
been omitted in the folio without great loss , for they are obscure and affected ...
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So did I yours : Good your grace , pardon me ; Neither my place , nor aught I
heard of business , Hath rais d me from my bed ; nor doth the general care Take
hold on me ; for my particular grief Is of so flood - gate and o'er - bearing nature ,
That ...
So did I yours : Good your grace , pardon me ; Neither my place , nor aught I
heard of business , Hath rais d me from my bed ; nor doth the general care Take
hold on me ; for my particular grief Is of so flood - gate and o'er - bearing nature ,
That ...
Page 253
If thou be'st valiant as ( they say ) base men , being in love , have then a nobility
in their natures more than is native to them , - list me . The lieutenant to - night
watches on the court of guard : -- First , I must tell thee this - Desdemona is
directly ...
If thou be'st valiant as ( they say ) base men , being in love , have then a nobility
in their natures more than is native to them , - list me . The lieutenant to - night
watches on the court of guard : -- First , I must tell thee this - Desdemona is
directly ...
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Page 156 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all.
Page 282 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Page 34 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Page 353 - No more of that. — I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Page 234 - twas wondrous pitiful : She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man ; she thank'd me, And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake : She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them. This only is the witchcraft I have us'd : Here comes the lady ; let her witness it.
Page 79 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 102 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 94 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
Page 74 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil...
Page 143 - Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
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| Title | The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Issue 14 The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | G. Kearsley [Printed, 1806 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 4 Jan 2007 |
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