The Works of Mr. William Shakespear;: In Six Volumes. Adorn'd with Cuts, Volume 4Jacob Tonson, 1709 |
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Page 1567
... better than a homely Swain , To fit upon a Hill , as I do now , To carve out Dials queintly , point by point , Thereby to fee the Minutes how they run : How many makes the Hour full compleat , How many Hours bring about the Day , How ...
... better than a homely Swain , To fit upon a Hill , as I do now , To carve out Dials queintly , point by point , Thereby to fee the Minutes how they run : How many makes the Hour full compleat , How many Hours bring about the Day , How ...
Page 1577
... better faid than done , my gracious Lord ; I am a Subject fit to jeft withal , But far unfit to be a Sovereign , K. Edw . Sweet Widow , by my State I fwear to thee , I I speak no more than what my Soul intends , King Henry VI . 1577.
... better faid than done , my gracious Lord ; I am a Subject fit to jeft withal , But far unfit to be a Sovereign , K. Edw . Sweet Widow , by my State I fwear to thee , I I speak no more than what my Soul intends , King Henry VI . 1577.
Page 1579
... better Perfon than my felf ; I'll make my Heaven to dream upon the Crown , And wiles I live t'account this World but Hell , Until this mis - fhap'd Trunk that bears this Head , Be Be round impaled with a glorious Crown . And yet King ...
... better Perfon than my felf ; I'll make my Heaven to dream upon the Crown , And wiles I live t'account this World but Hell , Until this mis - fhap'd Trunk that bears this Head , Be Be round impaled with a glorious Crown . And yet King ...
Page 1584
... better it were you troubled him , than France . Queen . Peace impudent and fhameless Warwick , peace , Proud fetter up , and puller down of Kings , I will not hence , ' till with my Talk and Tears ( Both full of Truth ) I make King ...
... better it were you troubled him , than France . Queen . Peace impudent and fhameless Warwick , peace , Proud fetter up , and puller down of Kings , I will not hence , ' till with my Talk and Tears ( Both full of Truth ) I make King ...
Page 1589
... better ufing France , than trufting France . Let us be back'd with God , and with the Seas , Which he hath given for fence impregnable , And with their Helps only defend our felves : In them , and in our felves , our fafety lyes . Clar ...
... better ufing France , than trufting France . Let us be back'd with God , and with the Seas , Which he hath given for fence impregnable , And with their Helps only defend our felves : In them , and in our felves , our fafety lyes . Clar ...
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Page 1628 - I'll have her, but I will not keep her long. What ! I, that kill'd her husband and his father, To take her in her heart's extremest hate ; With curses in her mouth, tears in her eyes, The bleeding witness of her hatred by ; Having God, her conscience, and these bars against me, And I no friends to back my suit withal, But the plain devil, and dissembling looks, And yet to win her, — all the world to nothing ! Ha!
Page 1775 - Love thyself last : cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou...
Page 1822 - And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check to good and bad : but when the planets In evil mixture to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents, what mutiny, What raging of the sea, shaking of earth, Commotion in the winds, frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixure ! O ! when degree is shak'd, Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick.
Page 1782 - After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
Page 1775 - Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not ; Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's ; then, if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.
Page 1781 - From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer...
Page 1565 - So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate; So many hours must I sport myself; So many days my ewes have been with young; So many weeks ere the poor fools will...
Page 1996 - Volsces ; men and lads, Stain all your edges on me. — Boy ! False hound ! If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there, That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli : Alone I did it. — Boy ! Auf.
Page 1747 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Page 1618 - And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace...