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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... servant , and so living to die his vassal . So great the dis- tance seemed to her between his height of dig- nity and her lowly fortunes , that she would say , " It were all one that I should love a bright pe- culiar star and think to ...
... servant , and so living to die his vassal . So great the dis- tance seemed to her between his height of dig- nity and her lowly fortunes , that she would say , " It were all one that I should love a bright pe- culiar star and think to ...
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... servant , and shall ever with true observance seek to eke out that desert , wherein my homely stars have failed to equal my great fortunes . " But this humble speech of Helena's did not at all move the haughty Bertram to pity his gentle ...
... servant , and shall ever with true observance seek to eke out that desert , wherein my homely stars have failed to equal my great fortunes . " But this humble speech of Helena's did not at all move the haughty Bertram to pity his gentle ...
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... servant and the very horses on which they rode were in like manner in mean and fantastic fashion habited . Petruchio could not be persuaded to change his dress ; he said Katherine was to be married to him , and not to his clothes ; and ...
... servant and the very horses on which they rode were in like manner in mean and fantastic fashion habited . Petruchio could not be persuaded to change his dress ; he said Katherine was to be married to him , and not to his clothes ; and ...
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... picked out for the purpose , and himself and his servant no better mounted , they journeyed on through rough and miry ways , and ever when this horse of Katherine's stumbled , he would storm and swear at 30 THE TAMING OF THE SHREW .
... picked out for the purpose , and himself and his servant no better mounted , they journeyed on through rough and miry ways , and ever when this horse of Katherine's stumbled , he would storm and swear at 30 THE TAMING OF THE SHREW .
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... servant and the horses , they arrived at his house . Petruchio welcomed her kindly to her home , but he resolved she ... servants to remove it away , and all this he did , as he said , in love for his Katherine , that she might not eat ...
... servant and the horses , they arrived at his house . Petruchio welcomed her kindly to her home , but he resolved she ... servants to remove it away , and all this he did , as he said , in love for his Katherine , that she might not eat ...
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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.