Modern Characters for 1778: By Shakespear, Volume 1printed, and sold by D. Brown; and all the booksellers in town and country, 1778 - 81 pages |
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... names of their most intimate friends , as well as their own , upon fmall flips of paper , which he further requested might be dropped promiscuously into the volume at the various places he should open ; after which he would carefully ...
... names of their most intimate friends , as well as their own , upon fmall flips of paper , which he further requested might be dropped promiscuously into the volume at the various places he should open ; after which he would carefully ...
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... names , to the astonishment of the fashionable infidels , were found lying upon the following paffages ; -a fair transcript of which , as they occurred , was made , without distinction of rank or sex , and voted by a confiderable ...
... names , to the astonishment of the fashionable infidels , were found lying upon the following paffages ; -a fair transcript of which , as they occurred , was made , without distinction of rank or sex , and voted by a confiderable ...
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... names were to be bought ! a Lord of the council rated me the other day in the ftreet , about you , Sir : I mark'd him not , and yet he talk'd very wifely , and in the street too . Hen . IV . Part I. A & t I. Lord ED . B. - CK . ' Tis ...
... names were to be bought ! a Lord of the council rated me the other day in the ftreet , about you , Sir : I mark'd him not , and yet he talk'd very wifely , and in the street too . Hen . IV . Part I. A & t I. Lord ED . B. - CK . ' Tis ...
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... name ! to be well favoured is the gift of fortune , but to write and read , comes by nature . Lord WG . Much Ado , & c . A ferving man , proud in heart , and mind ; that curl'd my hair , wore gloves in my cap , that serv'd the luft of ...
... name ! to be well favoured is the gift of fortune , but to write and read , comes by nature . Lord WG . Much Ado , & c . A ferving man , proud in heart , and mind ; that curl'd my hair , wore gloves in my cap , that serv'd the luft of ...
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... call'd Captain ? If Captains were of my mind , they would truncheon you out of taking their names upon you , before you have earned them . You a Captain : you flave ! -for what what ? -for tearing a poor whore's ruff in a MODERN CHARACTERS.
... call'd Captain ? If Captains were of my mind , they would truncheon you out of taking their names upon you , before you have earned them . You a Captain : you flave ! -for what what ? -for tearing a poor whore's ruff in a MODERN CHARACTERS.
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Page 18 - Hence, bashful cunning; And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.
Page 27 - 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 75 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Page 50 - He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Page 26 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come ; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Page 68 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts: I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain, blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him: For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood : I only speak right on...
Page 27 - That I did love the Moor to live with him, My downright violence and storm of fortunes May trumpet to the world...
Page 73 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Page 12 - It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
Page 16 - He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity...