The Works of William Shakespeare: The Plays Ed. from the Folio of MDCXXIII, with Various Readings from All the Editions and All the Commentators, Notes, Introductory Remarks, a Historical Sketch of the Text, an Account of the Rise and Progress of the English Drama, a Memoir of the Poet, and an Essay Upon the Genius, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1863 |
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... I'll avouch it to his head , Made love to Nedar's daughter , Helena , And won her soul ; and she , sweet lady , dotes , Devoutly dotes , dotes in idolatry , Upon this spotted and inconstant man . The . I must confess , that I have heard ...
... I'll avouch it to his head , Made love to Nedar's daughter , Helena , And won her soul ; and she , sweet lady , dotes , Devoutly dotes , dotes in idolatry , Upon this spotted and inconstant man . The . I must confess , that I have heard ...
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... I'll give to be to you translated . O ! teach me how you look , and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius ' heart . Her . I frown upon him , yet he loves me still . Hel . O , that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill ...
... I'll give to be to you translated . O ! teach me how you look , and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius ' heart . Her . I frown upon him , yet he loves me still . Hel . O , that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill ...
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... I'll speak in a monstrous little voice : " Thisne , Thisne Ah , Pyramus , my lover dear ! thy Thisby dear , and lady dear ! " Quin . No , no ; you must play Pyramus , and , Flute , you Thisby . Bot . Well , proceed . Quin . Robin ...
... I'll speak in a monstrous little voice : " Thisne , Thisne Ah , Pyramus , my lover dear ! thy Thisby dear , and lady dear ! " Quin . No , no ; you must play Pyramus , and , Flute , you Thisby . Bot . Well , proceed . Quin . Robin ...
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... I'll be gone . Our Queen and all her elves come here anon . Puck . The King doth keep his revels here to - night . Take heed the Queen come not within his sight ; For Oberon is passing fell and wrath , Because that she , as her ...
... I'll be gone . Our Queen and all her elves come here anon . Puck . The King doth keep his revels here to - night . Take heed the Queen come not within his sight ; For Oberon is passing fell and wrath , Because that she , as her ...
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... I'll put a girdle [ round ] about the Earth In forty minutes . [ Exit PUCK . Obe . Having once this juice , I'll watch Titania when she is asleep , And drop the liquor of it in her eyes : The next thing , then , she waking looks upon ...
... I'll put a girdle [ round ] about the Earth In forty minutes . [ Exit PUCK . Obe . Having once this juice , I'll watch Titania when she is asleep , And drop the liquor of it in her eyes : The next thing , then , she waking looks upon ...
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Antonio Baptista Bass Bassanio Bian Bianca Bion Biondello bond Collier's folio comedy daughter Demetrius doth ducats Duke Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair fairy father Folio and quartos fool gentle give Gratiano Gremio hath hear heart Helena Hermia Hippolyta honour Hortensio Jaques Jessica Kate Kath KATHARINA lady Laun Launcelot look lord Lorenzo Love's Labour's Lost lover Lucentio Lysander maid marry master means Merchant of Venice merry misprint mistress moon Nerissa never night Oberon original Orlando Padua passage Petruchio Philostrate play Portia pray printed Puck Pyramus quartos Quin Robin Goodfellow Rosalind SCENE second folio Shakespeare's Shakespeare's day shew Shylock Signior sleep speak Steevens swear sweet tell thee Theseus thing Titania Touch Tranio unto Venice Vincentio word
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Page 308 - With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness, and mere oblivion ; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing.
Page 307 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, — His Acts being seven ages. At first, the Infant Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms...
Page 26 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 226 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins; Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we...
Page 227 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus : Let no such man be trusted.
Page 42 - Philomel, with melody Sing in our sweet lullaby; Lulla, lulla, lullaby ; lulla, lulla, lullaby ; Never harm, nor spell nor charm, Come our lovely lady nigh; So, good night, with lullaby.
Page 37 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 158 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that, in low simplicity, He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 188 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? revenge: if a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? why, revenge. The villany you teach me I will execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Page 290 - The seasons' difference, — as, the icy fang And churlish chiding of the Winter's wind, (Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, This is no flattery,) — these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.