The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text; But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family, Volume 10 |
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Page 57
Spread thy close curtain , and come , civil ? night , Thou sober - suited matron ,
all in black : Come , night ! ... Here comes my nurse , And she brings news ; and
every tongue , that speaks But Romeo's name , speaks heavenly eloquence .
Spread thy close curtain , and come , civil ? night , Thou sober - suited matron ,
all in black : Come , night ! ... Here comes my nurse , And she brings news ; and
every tongue , that speaks But Romeo's name , speaks heavenly eloquence .
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I come . [ Knocking : Who knocks so hard ? whence come you ? what's your will ?
Nurse . [ Within . ] Let me come in , and you shall know my errand ; I come from
lady ' Juliet . Fri. Welcome then - I come , : NALE hak fre and Whi Enter Nurse .
I come . [ Knocking : Who knocks so hard ? whence come you ? what's your will ?
Nurse . [ Within . ] Let me come in , and you shall know my errand ; I come from
lady ' Juliet . Fri. Welcome then - I come , : NALE hak fre and Whi Enter Nurse .
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Now when the bridegroom in the morning comes To rouse thee from thy bed ,
there art thou dead : Then ( as the ... In the mean time , against thou shalt awake ,
Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift ; And hither shall he come ; and he and I
, ...
Now when the bridegroom in the morning comes To rouse thee from thy bed ,
there art thou dead : Then ( as the ... In the mean time , against thou shalt awake ,
Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift ; And hither shall he come ; and he and I
, ...
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How if , when I am laid into the tomb , I wake before the time that Romeo Come to
redeem me ? there ' s a fearful point ! ... stifled in the vault , To whose foul mouth
no healthsome air breathes in , And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes ?
How if , when I am laid into the tomb , I wake before the time that Romeo Come to
redeem me ? there ' s a fearful point ! ... stifled in the vault , To whose foul mouth
no healthsome air breathes in , And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes ?
Page 169
Now this , overdone , or come tardy off , though it make the unskilful laugh ,
cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one , must , in your
allowance ? , o'er - weigh a whole theatre of others . 0 , there be players , that I
have ...
Now this , overdone , or come tardy off , though it make the unskilful laugh ,
cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one , must , in your
allowance ? , o'er - weigh a whole theatre of others . 0 , there be players , that I
have ...
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Attendants bear better blood bring CAPULET Cassio comes daughter dead dear death Desdemona dost doth earth Emil Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair faith fall Farewell father fear follow fortune friar give gone grave Hamlet hand hast hath head hear heart heaven hold honest Horatio hour husband Iago Juliet keep King lady Laer Laertes leave light live look lord madam married matter means mind Moor mother murder nature never night noble Nurse once Othello play poor pray Prince Queen Romeo SCENE seen sleep soul speak stand stay sweet sword tears tell thank thee thing thou thou art thought to-night true Tybalt villain watch wife young
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Page 169 - 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'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Page 179 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe ? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Page 273 - Twere now to be most happy; for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 170 - No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp; And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear ? Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice, And could of men distinguish her election, She hath seal'd thee for herself: for thou hast been As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing ; A man, that fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks...
Page 167 - The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers, — quite, quite down ! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh...
Page 232 - 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 : Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows, what is't to leave betimes ?
Page 161 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 22 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonshine's...
Page 180 - 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 113 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
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| Title | The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text; But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family, Volume 10 The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text; But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 28 Dec 2006 |
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