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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... tell Helena she wished to speak with her . What she had just heard of Helena brought the remembrance of days long past into the mind of the countess , those days probably when her love for Bertram's father first began ; and she said to ...
... tell Helena she wished to speak with her . What she had just heard of Helena brought the remembrance of days long past into the mind of the countess , those days probably when her love for Bertram's father first began ; and she said to ...
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... upon 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.
... upon 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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... 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 married , he answered that he would give her twenty thousand ...
... 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 married , he answered that he would give her twenty thousand ...
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... tell her she sings as sweetly as a nightingale ; and if she frowns , I will say she looks as clear as roses newly washed with dew . If she will not speak a word , I will praise the eloquence of her language ; and if she bids me leave ...
... tell her she sings as sweetly as a nightingale ; and if she frowns , I will say she looks as clear as roses newly washed with dew . If she will not speak a word , I will praise the eloquence of her language ; and if she bids me leave ...
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... tell us which way you are travelling . We shall be glad of your good company , if you are going our way . " The old ... telling him the rich marriage his son was about to make ; and they all journeyed on pleasantly together till they ...
... tell us which way you are travelling . We shall be glad of your good company , if you are going our way . " The old ... telling him the rich marriage his son was about to make ; and they all journeyed on pleasantly together till they ...
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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.