King Lear ; Cymbeline ; Titus AndronicusBradbury, Agnew, and Company, 1867 |
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... art , To speak and purpose not ; since what I will in- tend , I'll do't before I speak , ) that you make known It is ... thou Hadst not been born than not t ' have pleased me better . France . Is it but this ? a tardiness in SC . I. II ...
... art , To speak and purpose not ; since what I will in- tend , I'll do't before I speak , ) that you make known It is ... thou Hadst not been born than not t ' have pleased me better . France . Is it but this ? a tardiness in SC . I. II ...
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... art most rich , being poor ; Most choice , forsaken ; and most loved , despised ! Thee and thy virtues here I seize ... Thou losest here , a better - where to find . Lear . Thou hast her , France : let her be thine , for we Have no such ...
... art most rich , being poor ; Most choice , forsaken ; and most loved , despised ! Thee and thy virtues here I seize ... Thou losest here , a better - where to find . Lear . Thou hast her , France : let her be thine , for we Have no such ...
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... Thou , Nature , art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound . Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me , For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon- shines Lag of a ...
... Thou , Nature , art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound . Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me , For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon- shines Lag of a ...
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... thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn'd , So may it come thy master , whom thou lov'st , Shall find thee ... art thou ? Kent . A man , sir . Lear . What dost thou profess ? What wouldst thou with us ? Kent . I do profess to be ...
... thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn'd , So may it come thy master , whom thou lov'st , Shall find thee ... art thou ? Kent . A man , sir . Lear . What dost thou profess ? What wouldst thou with us ? Kent . I do profess to be ...
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... thou do ? Kent . I can keep honest counsel , ride , run , mar a curious tale in telling it , and deliver a plain message bluntly ; that which ordinary men are fit for I am qualified in : and the best of me is diligence . Lear . How old art ...
... thou do ? Kent . I can keep honest counsel , ride , run , mar a curious tale in telling it , and deliver a plain message bluntly ; that which ordinary men are fit for I am qualified in : and the best of me is diligence . Lear . How old art ...
Common terms and phrases
Aaron Andronicus art thou ARVIRAGUS Bassianus BELARIUS blood Britons brother Cæsar CHIRON Cloten Cordelia Corn CYMBELINE daughter dead dear death Demet doth duke of Cornwall EDGAR Edmund emperor empress Enter Exeunt Exit eyes father fear Fool friends Gent give Gloster gods GONERIL Goths grace GUIDERIUS hand hath hear heart heaven hither honour Iach IACHIMO Imogen Jupiter Kent king lady Lavinia Lear Leonatus letter live look lord Lucius madam Marc Marcus master mistress night noble nuncle Pisanio poison'd poor Post Posthumus Pr'ythee pray queen Re-enter Regan revenge Roman Rome SATURNINUS SCENE sister sons sorrow speak Stew sweet sword Tamora tears tell thee there's thine thing thou art thou hast thou shalt Titus TITUS ANDRONICUS tongue traitor Tribunes villain
Popular passages
Page 116 - Come, let's away to prison : We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage : When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness : so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news ; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins ; who's in, who's out ; And take...
Page 68 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd. raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 166 - Phoebus gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chalic'd flowers that lies ; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes : With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet arise ; Arise, arise ! Clo.
Page 6 - Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth : I love your majesty According to my bond ; nor more nor less.
Page 218 - I'll sweeten thy sad grave : thou shall not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Page 129 - The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most : we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.
Page 220 - Fear no more the frown o' the great: Thou art past the tyrant's stroke. Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Page 191 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Page 18 - 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: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on...
Page 101 - Lear. Ay, every inch a king : When I do stare, see how the subject quakes. I pardon that man's life. What was thy cause ? Adultery ? Thou...