Tales from Shakespear: Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 2M.J. Godwin, at the Juvenile Library, 1809 - 236 pages |
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Page 206
... Desdemona . She was sought to by divers suitors , both on account of her many virtuous qualities and for her rich expectations . But among the suitors of her own clime and complexion she saw none whom she could affect : for this noble ...
... Desdemona . She was sought to by divers suitors , both on account of her many virtuous qualities and for her rich expectations . But among the suitors of her own clime and complexion she saw none whom she could affect : for this noble ...
Page 207
... Desdemona ( as is the manner of ladies ) loved to hear him tell the story of his adventures , which he would run through from his earliest recollection ; the bat- tles , sieges , and encounters , which he had past through ; the perils ...
... Desdemona ( as is the manner of ladies ) loved to hear him tell the story of his adventures , which he would run through from his earliest recollection ; the bat- tles , sieges , and encounters , which he had past through ; the perils ...
Page 208
... but under- stand , he spoke more openly of his love , and in this golden opportunity gained the consent of the generous lady Desdemona privately to marry him .. : Neither Othello's colour nor his fortune were such , 208 OTHELLO .
... but under- stand , he spoke more openly of his love , and in this golden opportunity gained the consent of the generous lady Desdemona privately to marry him .. : Neither Othello's colour nor his fortune were such , 208 OTHELLO .
Page 209
... Desdemona to marry him , without the consent of her father , and against the obliga- tions of hospitality . At this juncture of time it happened that the state of Venice , had immediate need of the ser- OTHELLO . 209.
... Desdemona to marry him , without the consent of her father , and against the obliga- tions of hospitality . At this juncture of time it happened that the state of Venice , had immediate need of the ser- OTHELLO . 209.
Page 211
... Desdemona herself , who appeared in court , and professing a duty to her father for life and education , challenged leave of him to profess a yet higher duty to her lord and husband , even so much as her mother had shewn in preferring ...
... Desdemona herself , who appeared in court , and professing a duty to her father for life and education , challenged leave of him to profess a yet higher duty to her lord and husband , even so much as her mother had shewn in preferring ...
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Page 106 - twill endure wind and weather. Vio. 'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on : Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive, If you will lead these graces to the grave, And leave the world no copy.
Page 109 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it! My part of death, no one so true Did share it.
Page 72 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page 94 - They say, best men are moulded out of faults ; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad : so may my husband.
Page 77 - That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your bosom ; Knock there ; and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault ; if it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life.
Page 27 - You lie, in faith, for you are called plain Kate, And bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst ; But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom, Kate of...
Page 82 - Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 208 - twas wondrous pitiful; She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished That heaven had made her such a man; she thanked me, And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake; She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them.
Page 83 - Sweet sister, let me live : What sin you do to save a brother's life, Nature dispenses with the deed so far, That it becomes a virtue.
Page 254 - Helicanus, strike me, honour'd sir ; Give me a gash, put me to present pain ; Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me, O'erbear the shores of my mortality, And drown me with their sweetness.