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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, with notes original and selected ... - Page 287
by William Shakespeare - 1843
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Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volume 2

Richard Ryan - 1826 - 318 pages
...created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this! how sweet! how lovely! Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider" d canopy ' To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery >" HENRY VI. Part III. ' It is...
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The Beauties of Shakspeare Regularly Selected from Each Play. With a General ...

William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this ! how sweet! how lovely! Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroidered canopy To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery? 0, yes it doth : a thousand fold...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare: With a Life, Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1828 - 392 pages
...were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this ! how sweet ! how Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds,...their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy lovely 1 To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery? O, yes it doth : a thousand fold it doth. A...
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Proceedings ... from ... 1819, to January, 1829 [ed.] by a member of the club

Shakespeare club Sheffield - 1829 - 190 pages
...contemplations of Kings. — Witness, for instance, the beautiful soliloquy of Henry the Sixth:— " Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds...canopy To Kings, that fear their subjects' treachery? O yes, it doth ; a thousand fold it doth, 30 And to conclude, the shepherd's homely curds, His cold...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 542 pages
...Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. * Ah, what a life; were this ! how sweet; how lovely! * Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade * To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, * Than doth a rich embroidcr'd canopy (2) Sinking into dejection. (3) To fore-slow is to be dilatory, to loiter. * To...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 3

John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...created, Would bring white hairs into a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this! How sweet! How lovely! Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To Shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroidered canopy To Kings, that fear their subjects' treachery? O, yes, it doth; a thousand told...
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this ! how sweet! how lovely ! Gives not the Inwthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their...sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings, tbat fear their subjects treachery ': O,yes, it doth ; a thousand fold it doth. And to conclude, the...
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The Dramatic Works, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 522 pages
...Would brins; white hairs unto a quiet grave. * Ah, what a life were this! how sweet; how lovely I * Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade * To shepherds,...silly sheep, * Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy (!) Sinking into dejection. (3) To fore-slow is to be dilatory, to loiter * To kings, that fear their...
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Gathered Flowers: Chiefly from the Works of the British Poets

1832 - 206 pages
...generally preferred in hedges, on account of its close growth, hardiness, and strong defence of thorns. GIVES not the Hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroidered canopy To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery? 68 THUS sang they all the service...
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The plays and poems of Shakspeare [according to the text of E ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1833 - 496 pages
...Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. , " Ah, what a life were this ! how sweet ! how lovely ! " Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade " To shepherds,...canopy " To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery ? " O, yes, it doth ; a thousand fold it doth. " And to conclude, — the shepherd's homely curds ;...
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