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Page xvi
... Cominius enters and predicts the events of a sack , in which burning has its place . Later references , such as that of Menenius , " If he were putting to my house the brand That should consume it , " assume it as what is naturally to ...
... Cominius enters and predicts the events of a sack , in which burning has its place . Later references , such as that of Menenius , " If he were putting to my house the brand That should consume it , " assume it as what is naturally to ...
Page xxi
... Cominius and Titus Lartius are scarcely more than brave soldiers , generous comrades , and men of sense and prudence in the State , but Shakespeare has created in Menenius one of the happy old men of Elizabethan or Jacobean drama out of ...
... Cominius and Titus Lartius are scarcely more than brave soldiers , generous comrades , and men of sense and prudence in the State , but Shakespeare has created in Menenius one of the happy old men of Elizabethan or Jacobean drama out of ...
Page xxxii
... Cominius dyd laye siege . Wherefore all the other Volsces fearing least that cittie should be taken by assault , they came from all partes of the countrie to save it , entending to geve the Romaines battell before the cittie , and to ...
... Cominius dyd laye siege . Wherefore all the other Volsces fearing least that cittie should be taken by assault , they came from all partes of the countrie to save it , entending to geve the Romaines battell before the cittie , and to ...
Page xxxiv
... Cominius also kisse and embrace him ; then there was not a man but tooke harte againe to him , and beganne to be of a good corage , some hearing him reporte from poynte to poynte , the happy successe of this exployte , and other also ...
... Cominius also kisse and embrace him ; then there was not a man but tooke harte againe to him , and beganne to be of a good corage , some hearing him reporte from poynte to poynte , the happy successe of this exployte , and other also ...
Page xxxv
... Cominius perceyving , he sent thither straight of the best souldiers he had about him . So the battell was marvelous bloudie about Martius , and in a very shorte space many were slaine in the place . But in the ende the Romaines were so ...
... Cominius perceyving , he sent thither straight of the best souldiers he had about him . So the battell was marvelous bloudie about Martius , and in a very shorte space many were slaine in the place . But in the ende the Romaines were so ...
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Page 144 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 144 - Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Page 11 - I hate him for he is a Christian : But more, for that, in low simplicity, He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 107 - Indeed, it is a strange-disposed time ; But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
Page 199 - I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand, As if a man were author of himself And knew no other kin.
Page 15 - Who deserves greatness Deserves your hate ; and your affections are A sick man's appetite, who desires most that Which would increase his evil He that depends Upon your favours swims with fins of lead And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye! Trust ye! With every minute you do change a mind, And call him noble that was now your hate, Him vile that was your garland.
Page 222 - If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there, That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli : Alone I did it. Boy ! Auf.
Page 198 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us." Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
Page 140 - You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt my air, I banish you; And here remain with your uncertainty! Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts! Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes, Fan you into despair! Have the power still To banish your defenders; till, at length, Your ignorance...