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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... dead father , her imagination present- ing no image to her mind but Bertram's . And Helena had long loved Bertram , yet she always remembered that he was the count of Rossilion , descended from the most ancient family in France . She of ...
... dead father , her imagination present- ing no image to her mind but Bertram's . And Helena had long loved Bertram , yet she always remembered that he was the count of Rossilion , descended from the most ancient family in France . She of ...
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... dead , hoping that when he thought himself free to make a second choice by the news of her death , he would offer marriage to her in her feigned cha- racter of Diana . And if she could obtain the ring and this promise too , she doubted ...
... dead , hoping that when he thought himself free to make a second choice by the news of her death , he would offer marriage to her in her feigned cha- racter of Diana . And if she could obtain the ring and this promise too , she doubted ...
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... dead father's and his admirable mother's sake , pardoned him , and re- stored him once more to his favour . But the gracious countenance of the king was soon changed towards him , for he perceived that Ber- tram wore the very ring upon ...
... dead father's and his admirable mother's sake , pardoned him , and re- stored him once more to his favour . But the gracious countenance of the king was soon changed towards him , for he perceived that Ber- tram wore the very ring upon ...
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... dead , and has left me heir to all his lands and goods . Then tell me , if I get your daughter's love , what dowry you will give with her . " Baptista thought his manner was somewhat blunt for a lover ; but being glad to get Katherine ...
... dead , and has left me heir to all his lands and goods . Then tell me , if I get your daughter's love , what dowry you will give with her . " Baptista thought his manner was somewhat blunt for a lover ; but being glad to get Katherine ...
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... ; and she said , " This big- ger key opens the vineyard gate ; this other a little door which leads from the vineyard to the- garden . There I have made my promise at the dead of night to call upon him , and have 86 MEASURE FOR MEASURE .
... ; and she said , " This big- ger key opens the vineyard gate ; this other a little door which leads from the vineyard to the- garden . There I have made my promise at the dead of night to call upon him , and have 86 MEASURE FOR MEASURE .
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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.