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5 I did atone & c . ] To atone signifies in this place to reconcile . 0 - upon
importance of so slight and trivial a nature . ] Importance is here , as elsewhere in
Shakspeare , importunity , instigation . rather shunned to go even with what I
heard , & c .
5 I did atone & c . ] To atone signifies in this place to reconcile . 0 - upon
importance of so slight and trivial a nature . ] Importance is here , as elsewhere in
Shakspeare , importunity , instigation . rather shunned to go even with what I
heard , & c .
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She doth think , she has Strange lingering poisons : I do know her spirit , And will
not trust one of her malice with A drug of such damn ' d nature : Those , she has ,
Will stupify and dull the sense awhile : Which first , perchance , she ' ll prove on ...
She doth think , she has Strange lingering poisons : I do know her spirit , And will
not trust one of her malice with A drug of such damn ' d nature : Those , she has ,
Will stupify and dull the sense awhile : Which first , perchance , she ' ll prove on ...
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Hath nature given them eyes To see this vaulted arch , and the rich crop Of sea
and land , which can distinguish ' twixt The fiery orbs above , and the twinn ' d
stones Upon the number ' d beach ? and can we not Partition make with
spectacles ...
Hath nature given them eyes To see this vaulted arch , and the rich crop Of sea
and land , which can distinguish ' twixt The fiery orbs above , and the twinn ' d
stones Upon the number ' d beach ? and can we not Partition make with
spectacles ...
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Would make the great ' st king double ! to be partner ' d With tomboys , hir ' d with
that self - exhibition Which your own coffers yield ! with diseas ' d ventures , That
play with all infirmities for gold Which rottenness can lend nature ! such boil ' d ...
Would make the great ' st king double ! to be partner ' d With tomboys , hir ' d with
that self - exhibition Which your own coffers yield ! with diseas ' d ventures , That
play with all infirmities for gold Which rottenness can lend nature ! such boil ' d ...
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... Ah , but some natural notes about her body , Above ten thousand meaner
moveables Would testify , to enrich mine ... of a thousand proofs that Shakspeare
was an observer of nature , though , in this instance , no very accurate describer
of it ...
... Ah , but some natural notes about her body , Above ten thousand meaner
moveables Would testify , to enrich mine ... of a thousand proofs that Shakspeare
was an observer of nature , though , in this instance , no very accurate describer
of it ...
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Page 408 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 451 - How does my royal lord ? How fares your majesty ? Lear. You do me wrong to take me out o' the grave : Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Page 457 - We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll...
Page 65 - tis slander ; Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Page 355 - These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us : Though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects : love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked between son and father.
Page 451 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you, and know this man, Yet I am doubtful, for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For as I am a man I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Page 470 - The weight of this sad time we must obey ; Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most : we, that are young, Shall never see so much, nor live so long.
Page 137 - To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation.
Page 438 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles: halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade!
Page 356 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behaviour — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on...
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| Title | The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by George Steevens: With a Series of Engravings, from Original Designs of Henry Fusell, and a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, Volume 8 The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by George Steevens: With a Series of Engravings, from Original Designs of Henry Fusell, and a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | George Steevens |
| Illustrated by | Henry Fusell |
| Publisher | F.C. and J. Rivington, 1805 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 17 Jan 2008 |
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