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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... ring from my finger which never shall come off , then call me husband , but in such a Then I write a Never . " This is a dreadful sentence ! " said Helena . The countess begged her to have patience , and said , now Bertram was gone ...
... ring from my finger which never shall come off , then call me husband , but in such a Then I write a Never . " This is a dreadful sentence ! " said Helena . The countess begged her to have patience , and said , now Bertram was gone ...
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... Bertram for Diana ; telling them , her chief motive for desiring to have this secret meeting with her husband , was to get a ring from him , which he had said if ever she was in possession of , he would acknowledge her 16 ALL'S WELL.
... Bertram for Diana ; telling them , her chief motive for desiring to have this secret meeting with her husband , was to get a ring from him , which he had said if ever she was in possession of , he would acknowledge her 16 ALL'S WELL.
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... ring and this promise too , she doubted not she should make some future good come of it . In the evening , after it was dark , Bertram was admitted into Diana's chamber , and Helena was there ready to receive him . The flattering com ...
... ring and this promise too , she doubted not she should make some future good come of it . In the evening , after it was dark , Bertram was admitted into Diana's chamber , and Helena was there ready to receive him . The flattering com ...
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... ring from off his finger as a token of his re- gard , and he gave it to her ; and in return for this ring , which it was of such importance to her to possess , she gave him another ring , which was one the king had made her a present of ...
... ring from off his finger as a token of his re- gard , and he gave it to her ; and in return for this ring , which it was of such importance to her to possess , she gave him another ring , which was one the king had made her a present of ...
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... ring upon his finger which he had given to Helena ; and he well remembered that Helena had called all the saints in heaven to witness she would never part with that ring , unless she sent it to the king himself upon some great disaster ...
... ring upon his finger which he had given to Helena ; and he well remembered that Helena had called all the saints in heaven to witness she would never part with that ring , unless she sent it to the king himself upon some great disaster ...
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abbess Adriana Ægeon Angelo Anthonio Antipholis of Syracuse bade Baptista beauty begged Bertram brother brought called Cassio Cesario Claudio Cleon count Paris countess daughter dead dear death demona Desdemona Diana Dionysia Dromio duke Ephesus fair father fear feast fortunes friar gave gentle gentleman give goldsmith grief Hamlet hear heard heart heaven Helena Hellicanus honour husband Iago Illyria Isabel Juliet Katherine king knew lady Laertes Leoline living look lord Capulet lord Timon Lychorida Lysimachus maid Mantua Marina marriage married Michael Cassio mind mistress mother Mountague murder Narbon never night noble old lord Olivia Orsino Othello pardon Paris passion Pericles Petruchio poor prince prince of Tyre prison promised queen replied ring Romeo Sebastian seemed sent servant shewed ship sister sorrow speak story strange sweet tell Thaisa Tharsus thing thought told Tybalt Tyre Verona Viola weep wife wished words young
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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.