The tempest. A midsummer-night's dream. The two gentleman of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measureJ. and P. Knapton, S. Birt, T. Longman and T. Shewell, H. Lintott, C. Hitch, J. Brindley, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, R. Wellington, E. New, and B. Dod., 1747 |
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... Speak i no more than is Jet down for them . ( Act . 3. Sc . 4. ) V But as a proof that he could not efcape it , in the old editions of Romeo and Juliet there is no hint of and great number of the mean conceits and ribaldries now to be ...
... Speak i no more than is Jet down for them . ( Act . 3. Sc . 4. ) V But as a proof that he could not efcape it , in the old editions of Romeo and Juliet there is no hint of and great number of the mean conceits and ribaldries now to be ...
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... Speaking of a maid in love , he fays , She never told her love , But let concealment , like a worm i ' th ' bud , Feed on her damask cheek : She pin'd in thought , And fat like Patience on a monument , Smiling at Grief . What an Image ...
... Speaking of a maid in love , he fays , She never told her love , But let concealment , like a worm i ' th ' bud , Feed on her damask cheek : She pin'd in thought , And fat like Patience on a monument , Smiling at Grief . What an Image ...
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... speak this speech , Were I but where ' tis fpoken ! Pro . How ? the best ? What wert thou , if the King of Naples heard thee ? Fer . A fingle thing , as I am now , that wonders To hear thee speak of Naples . He does hear me ; And , that ...
... speak this speech , Were I but where ' tis fpoken ! Pro . How ? the best ? What wert thou , if the King of Naples heard thee ? Fer . A fingle thing , as I am now , that wonders To hear thee speak of Naples . He does hear me ; And , that ...
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... Speak not you for him : he's a traitor . Come , I'll manacle thy neck and feet together ; Sea - water fhalt thou drink ; thy food shall be The fresh - brook muffels , wither'd roots , and husks Wherein the acorn cradled . Fer . No ...
... Speak not you for him : he's a traitor . Come , I'll manacle thy neck and feet together ; Sea - water fhalt thou drink ; thy food shall be The fresh - brook muffels , wither'd roots , and husks Wherein the acorn cradled . Fer . No ...
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... speak , would it not fay , he lies ? Seb . Ay , or very falfely pocket up his report . Gon . Methinks , our garments are now as fresh as when we put them on first in Africk , at the mar- riage of the King's fair daughter Claribel to the ...
... speak , would it not fay , he lies ? Seb . Ay , or very falfely pocket up his report . Gon . Methinks , our garments are now as fresh as when we put them on first in Africk , at the mar- riage of the King's fair daughter Claribel to the ...
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Page 41 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 382 - Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; • And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page lxviii - Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time!
Page 21 - Know thus far forth. — By accident most strange, bountiful fortune, Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies Brought to this shore ; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
Page 366 - Stands at a guard with envy ; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone : hence shall we see, If power change purpose, what our seemers be.
Page 49 - Hence, bashful cunning ! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no.
Page 33 - All things in common, nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 153 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen ; man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
Page 155 - Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 293 - The rest complains of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields. A honey tongue, a heart of gall Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle...