The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, with notes original and selected by S.W. Singer, and a life of the poet by C. Symmons, Part 25, Volume 10 |
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... mind resembles a single but endless sigh . ' The excellent dramatic arrangement , the signification of each character in its place , the judicious selection of all the circum- stances even the most minute , ' have been pointed out by ...
... mind resembles a single but endless sigh . ' The excellent dramatic arrangement , the signification of each character in its place , the judicious selection of all the circum- stances even the most minute , ' have been pointed out by ...
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... c . Again in Summa Totalis , or All in All , 4to . 1607 : - ' Now heaven's bright eye ( awake by Vesper's shrine ) Peepes through the purple windowes of the East . A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad ; Where 12 ACT I. ROMEO AND JULIET .
... c . Again in Summa Totalis , or All in All , 4to . 1607 : - ' Now heaven's bright eye ( awake by Vesper's shrine ) Peepes through the purple windowes of the East . A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad ; Where 12 ACT I. ROMEO AND JULIET .
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William Shakespeare Samuel Weller Singer. A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad ; Where , -underneath the grove of sycamore , That westward rooteth from the city's side , - So early walking did I see your son : Towards him I made ; but ...
William Shakespeare Samuel Weller Singer. A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad ; Where , -underneath the grove of sycamore , That westward rooteth from the city's side , - So early walking did I see your son : Towards him I made ; but ...
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... mind , and make it more the subject of conversation . Question is used fre- quently with this sense by Shakspeare . 20 This is probably an allusion to the masks worn by the female spectators of the play ; unless we suppose that these ...
... mind , and make it more the subject of conversation . Question is used fre- quently with this sense by Shakspeare . 20 This is probably an allusion to the masks worn by the female spectators of the play ; unless we suppose that these ...
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William Shakespeare Samuel Weller Singer. Being black , put us in mind they hide the fair ; He , that is strucken blind , cannot forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost ; Show me a mistress that is passing fair , What doth her ...
William Shakespeare Samuel Weller Singer. Being black , put us in mind they hide the fair ; He , that is strucken blind , cannot forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost ; Show me a mistress that is passing fair , What doth her ...
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Page 247 - O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 50 - And yet I wish but for the thing I have: My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Page 378 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: Which I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate.
Page 264 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe ? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Page 340 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all.
Page 174 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on ; and yet, within a month — Let me not think on't. — Frailty, thy name is woman ! A little month!
Page 286 - Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain convocation of [politic] worms* are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.
Page 341 - I've done you wrong ; But pardon 't, as you are a gentleman. This presence knows, And you must needs have heard, how I am punish'd With sore distraction. What I have done, That might your nature, honour, and exception, Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness. Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes ? Never Hamlet : If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away, And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes, Then Hamlet does it not ; Hamlet denies it. Who does it then ? His madness. If't be so, Hamlet is of the faction...
Page 32 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid. Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut , Made by the joiner squirrel , or old grub , Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Page 247 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure.