The Works of Shakespeare ..., Volume 26Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1924 |
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... cousin Hero certainly is , but she is not dull - witted , not lethargic . In the ensnaring of Beatrice she takes her part with spirit and humour - a rather caustic humour on such gentle lips - and in the masked ball she answers her ...
... cousin Hero certainly is , but she is not dull - witted , not lethargic . In the ensnaring of Beatrice she takes her part with spirit and humour - a rather caustic humour on such gentle lips - and in the masked ball she answers her ...
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... cousin is belied ! " ( IV . i . 143 ) . The same generous spirit is revealed in the entire humility with which she accepts the strictures overheard in the garden , and in her immediate resolve to requite the love of Benedick ; it was ...
... cousin is belied ! " ( IV . i . 143 ) . The same generous spirit is revealed in the entire humility with which she accepts the strictures overheard in the garden , and in her immediate resolve to requite the love of Benedick ; it was ...
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... cousin ! wherefore sink you down ? " ( Iv . i . 107 ) ; " Peace ! I will stop your mouth " ( v . iv . 97 ) ; " For look where Beatrice , like a lapwing , runs Close by the ground to hear our conference " ( 111. i . 24-25 ) . Often the ...
... cousin ! wherefore sink you down ? " ( Iv . i . 107 ) ; " Peace ! I will stop your mouth " ( v . iv . 97 ) ; " For look where Beatrice , like a lapwing , runs Close by the ground to hear our conference " ( 111. i . 24-25 ) . Often the ...
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... cousin means Signior Benedick of Padua . Mess . O , he's returned , and as pleasant as ever he was . Beat . He set up his bills here in Messina and challenged 35 Cupid at the flight ; and my uncle's fool , reading the challenge ...
... cousin means Signior Benedick of Padua . Mess . O , he's returned , and as pleasant as ever he was . Beat . He set up his bills here in Messina and challenged 35 Cupid at the flight ; and my uncle's fool , reading the challenge ...
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... cousin , an she were not possessed with a fury , exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December . But I hope you have no intent to turn husband , have you ? Claud . I would scarce trust myself , though I had ...
... cousin , an she were not possessed with a fury , exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December . But I hope you have no intent to turn husband , have you ? Claud . I would scarce trust myself , though I had ...
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Page 75 - 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 67 - I have railed so long against marriage: But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth, that he cannot endure in his age: Shall quips, and sentences, and these paper bullets of the brain, awe a man from the career of his humour? No: The world must be peopled. When I said, I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.— Here comes Beatrice : By this day, she's a fair lady : I do spy some marks of love in her.
Page 39 - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love : Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues ; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent : for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Page 86 - Why then, take no note of him, but let him go ; and presently call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave.