The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 - 299 pages |
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... grace , As if he master'd there a double spirit , Of teaching , and of learning , instantly . There did he pause : But let me tell the world , -- If he outlive the envy of this day , England did never owe so sweet a hope , So much ...
... grace , As if he master'd there a double spirit , Of teaching , and of learning , instantly . There did he pause : But let me tell the world , -- If he outlive the envy of this day , England did never owe so sweet a hope , So much ...
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... grace , I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have . [ Trumpets sound a Retreat . The trumpet sounds retreat , the day is ours . Come , brother , let's to the highest of the field , To see what friends are living , who are dead ...
... grace , I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have . [ Trumpets sound a Retreat . The trumpet sounds retreat , the day is ours . Come , brother , let's to the highest of the field , To see what friends are living , who are dead ...
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... grace , Pardon , and terms of love to all of you ? And wouldst thou turn our offers contrary ? Wor . What I have done , my safety urg'd me to ; And I embrace this fortune patiently , Since not to be avoided it falls on me . K. Hen ...
... grace , Pardon , and terms of love to all of you ? And wouldst thou turn our offers contrary ? Wor . What I have done , my safety urg'd me to ; And I embrace this fortune patiently , Since not to be avoided it falls on me . K. Hen ...
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... my most worshipful lord , an't please your grace , I am a poor widow of Eastcheap , and he is arrested at my suit . t HENRY IV : PART II YANG AUT T SIR 3 16 [ ACT I , KING HENRY IV . Do your offices, do your offices, Master Fang...
... my most worshipful lord , an't please your grace , I am a poor widow of Eastcheap , and he is arrested at my suit . t HENRY IV : PART II YANG AUT T SIR 3 16 [ ACT I , KING HENRY IV . Do your offices, do your offices, Master Fang...
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... grace , my lord ; tap for tap , and so part fair . Ch . Just . Now the Lord lighten thee ! thou art a great fool . [ Exeunt the CHIEF JUSTICE , Gower , Two APPARITORS , and FALSTAFF . ACT THE SECOND . SCENE I. An Apartment of the PRINCE ...
... grace , my lord ; tap for tap , and so part fair . Ch . Just . Now the Lord lighten thee ! thou art a great fool . [ Exeunt the CHIEF JUSTICE , Gower , Two APPARITORS , and FALSTAFF . ACT THE SECOND . SCENE I. An Apartment of the PRINCE ...
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Antonio art thou Bard Bardolph Bass Bassanio Beatr Beatrice Bened blood BORACHIO brother Captain chuse Claud Claudio CONSTABLE OF FRANCE cousin Dogb dost thou doth ducats Duke EARL EARL OF WESTMORELAND Eastcheap Enter Exeunt Exit fair faith FALSTAFF father fear Fluellen France Friar GENTLEMEN give GLOSTER Gower grace GRATIANO Harfleur Harry hath hear heart Heaven Hero honour Host HOTSPUR Jessica KING HENRY knave lady Laun Launcelot Leon Leonato liege look lord Lorenzo majesty marry Master Master Constable merry Nerissa never night noble Pedro Pist Pistol Poins pray thee PRINCE JOHN PRINCE OF WALES Sala SCENE Shal Shallow shalt Shylock Sir John Sir John Falstaff soldier speak swear sweet sword tell thing thou art thou hast thou wilt troth Trumpets unto Venice WESTMORELAND
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Page 13 - 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 50 - Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 53 - This story shall the good man teach his son ; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered ; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile This day shall gentle his condition...
Page 57 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown : His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God...
Page 52 - O, do not wish one more! Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made • And crowns for convoy put into his purse : We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is...
Page 17 - Yes, to smell pork! to eat of the habitation which your prophet, the Nazarite, conjured the devil into! I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.
Page 19 - Shylock, we would have monies', You say so; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me, as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold; monies is your suit. What should I say to you? Should I not say, Hath a dog money? is it possible, A cur can lend three thousand ducats'?
Page 51 - With deaf ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude; And, in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a King...
Page 15 - So, when this loose behaviour I throw off And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes...
Page 41 - Should I turn upon the true prince? Why, thou knowest, I am as valiant as Hercules : but beware instinct ; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter; I was a coward on instinct. I shall think the better of myself and thee, during my life; I, for a valiant lion, and thou for a true prince.