Shakespeare's debt to the Bible'Hand and Heart', 1879 - 80 pages |
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AGNES GIBERNE All's allusions ANNE HATHAWAY babes BALFOUR bevelled cloth Bible Truths Biblical bound in cloth Bride Elect CHARLES BULLOCK Christian Church Congress Cloth Gilt conscience Cymbeline Divine doth earthly Eccles Elegantly bound EMMA MARSHALL evil fear FIRESIDE Formerly Rector Frontispiece GIBERNE God's Gospel GRAVE OF SHAKSPEARE guilty HAND AND HEART hath HAVERGAL Henry VI Holy HOME WORDS honour inscription Julius Cæsar justice King Henry VIII King Lear King Richard King Richard III LEADING TRUTHS light literary influence live LONDON Lord Hailes Love's Labour Lost Luke Macbeth Magazine Matt Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice mercy moral law nature never PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS PORTRAITS Price Prov Psalm PUBLISHING OFFICES ready RICHARD WILTON sacred SHAKSPEARE'S CLIFF Shakspeare's Debt Shakspearian Parallels soul TESTAMENT theatre Thomas Lucy thou Thousand three first centuries Timon of Athens toned paper TRUTHS OF REVELATION volume writings xvii
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Page 47 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 20 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 34 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Page 41 - Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind ; Faithful friends are hard to find : Every man will be thy friend Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend ; But if store of crowns be scant, No man will supply thy want. If that one be prodigal, Bountiful they will him call, And with such-like flattering,
Page 36 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 40 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 38 - O, it is monstrous ! monstrous ! Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it ; The winds did sing it to me ; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper ; it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded ; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded.
Page 47 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 48 - Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
Page 49 - O, that estates, degrees, and offices, Were not derived corruptly ! and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ! How many then should cover that stand bare ! How many be commanded that command...