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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... ordered her to go home to his mother . When Helena heard this unkind command , she replied , " Sir , I can nothing say to this , but that I am your most obe- dient servant , and shall ever with true observance seek to eke out that ...
... ordered her to go home to his mother . When Helena heard this unkind command , she replied , " Sir , I can nothing say to this , but that I am your most obe- dient servant , and shall ever with true observance seek to eke out that ...
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... knowing Bertram's dislike to his wife , feared he had destroyed her ; and he ordered his guards to seize Bertram , saying , " I am wrapt in dismal thinking , for I fear the life of Helena was foully snatched . " At this mo- 20 ALL'S WELL.
... knowing Bertram's dislike to his wife , feared he had destroyed her ; and he ordered his guards to seize Bertram , saying , " I am wrapt in dismal thinking , for I fear the life of Helena was foully snatched . " At this mo- 20 ALL'S WELL.
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... ordered the guards to seize her also ; and her account of the ring differing from Ber- tram's , the king's suspicions were confirmed ; and he said , if they did not confess how they came by this ring of Helena's , they should be both ...
... ordered the guards to seize her also ; and her account of the ring differing from Ber- tram's , the king's suspicions were confirmed ; and he said , if they did not confess how they came by this ring of Helena's , they should be both ...
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... sure this kindness merits thanks . What not a word ? Nay then you love not the meat , and all the pains I have taken is to no purpose . " He then ordered the servant to take the dish away . Ex- 32 THE TAMING OF THE SHREW .
... sure this kindness merits thanks . What not a word ? Nay then you love not the meat , and all the pains I have taken is to no purpose . " He then ordered the servant to take the dish away . Ex- 32 THE TAMING OF THE SHREW .
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... ordered for her , and then giving her plate to the servant to take away , before she had half satisfied her hunger , he said , " What ? have you dined ? " The ha- berdasher presented a cap , saying , " Here is the cap your worship ...
... ordered for her , and then giving her plate to the servant to take away , before she had half satisfied her hunger , he said , " What ? have you dined ? " The ha- berdasher presented a cap , saying , " Here is the cap your worship ...
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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.