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... Ralpho , ' tis all one : 455 460 reader has become satisfied that the prototypes of the several characters of the Poem are rightly assigned , it will be a source of amusement to him to trace out those minutiæ for himself , of which ...
... Ralpho , ' tis all one : 455 460 reader has become satisfied that the prototypes of the several characters of the Poem are rightly assigned , it will be a source of amusement to him to trace out those minutiæ for himself , of which ...
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... Ralpho's name , as above explained , there is the like- ness of a parrot , Fig . 12 . and there are other resemblances to birds towards the top of his head . The hilt of Hudibras's sword , together with the shadows within which it lies ...
... Ralpho's name , as above explained , there is the like- ness of a parrot , Fig . 12 . and there are other resemblances to birds towards the top of his head . The hilt of Hudibras's sword , together with the shadows within which it lies ...
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... Ralpho , verily , The point seems very plain to me . It is an antichristian game , 725 730 801 Unlawful both in thing and name . First for the name , the word bear - baiting 805 Is carnal , and of man's creating : For certainly there's ...
... Ralpho , verily , The point seems very plain to me . It is an antichristian game , 725 730 801 Unlawful both in thing and name . First for the name , the word bear - baiting 805 Is carnal , and of man's creating : For certainly there's ...
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... Ralpho rode on with no less speed Than Hugo in the forest did : But far more in returning made ; For now the foe he had survey'd , Rang'd , as to him they did appear , With van , main battle , wings , and rear . I ' th ' head of all ...
... Ralpho rode on with no less speed Than Hugo in the forest did : But far more in returning made ; For now the foe he had survey'd , Rang'd , as to him they did appear , With van , main battle , wings , and rear . I ' th ' head of all ...
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... Ralpho thrust himself between . He took the blow upon his arm , To shield the knight from further harm ; And joining wrath with force bestow'd On th ' wooden member such a load , That down it fell , and with it bore Crowdero , whom it ...
... Ralpho thrust himself between . He took the blow upon his arm , To shield the knight from further harm ; And joining wrath with force bestow'd On th ' wooden member such a load , That down it fell , and with it bore Crowdero , whom it ...
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alluded arms b'ing bear beard beast better blows body Burgundy Cerdon cloven hoof Clown Cordelia Corn Crowdero daughter dead death dost doth drawn in Fig Edgar Edmund Enter Exeunt Exit eyes face father fear fight figure Fool Fortinbras Ghost give Glo'ster Goneril grace Guil Guildenstern Hamlet hand hath head hear heart Heaven honour Horatio horse Hudibras's is't Kent King King Claudius King Lear knave knight Lady Laer Laertes Lear librations light look Lord Madam Magnano moon ne'er Norway numbers o'er Ophelia Orsin OSRICK poison'd Polonius pray prototype Queen Quoth Hudibras Ralpho Regan resemblance resolv'd ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN SCENE seen shadows shew side Sidrophel soul speak squire Stew swear sword Talgol tell thee There's thine thing thou hast twas Whachum
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Page 80 - Get thee to a nunnery; Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts to put them in. imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.
Page 154 - Dost thou come here to whine? To outface me with leaping in her grave? Be buried quick with her, and so will I : And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw Millions of acres on us, till our ground, Singeing his pate against the burning zone, Make Ossa like a wart! Nay, an thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou.
Page 85 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 78 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 9 - And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and at his warning. Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
Page 183 - Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all ? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty : Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.
Page 164 - 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 84 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 220 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem...
Page 255 - If it be you that stir these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely ; touch me with noble anger, And let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks ! No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall...