The Sweet Silvery Sayings of Shakespeare on the Softer SexH.S. King and Company, 1877 - 328 pages |
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... hold of her Shall have the chinks . Romeo . Is she a Capulet ? O dear account ! My life is my foe's debt . Benvolio . Away , begone ; the sport is at the best . Ay , so I fear ; the more is my unrest . Romeo . * * * * Juliet . Come ...
... hold of her Shall have the chinks . Romeo . Is she a Capulet ? O dear account ! My life is my foe's debt . Benvolio . Away , begone ; the sport is at the best . Ay , so I fear ; the more is my unrest . Romeo . * * * * Juliet . Come ...
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... hold love out : And what love can do , that dares love attempt ; Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me . Juliet . If they do see thee they will murder thee . Romeo . Alack ! there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their ...
... hold love out : And what love can do , that dares love attempt ; Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me . Juliet . If they do see thee they will murder thee . Romeo . Alack ! there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their ...
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... hold I off . Women are angels , wooing ; Things won are done , joy's soul lies in the doing ; That she belov'd knows nought , that knows not this , - Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is : That she was never yet , that ever knew ...
... hold I off . Women are angels , wooing ; Things won are done , joy's soul lies in the doing ; That she belov'd knows nought , that knows not this , - Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is : That she was never yet , that ever knew ...
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... hold my tongue ; For , in this rapture , I shall surely speak The thing I shall repent . See , see , your silence , Cunning in dumbness , from my weakness draws My very soul of counsel : Stop , my mouth . Troilus . And shall , albeit ...
... hold my tongue ; For , in this rapture , I shall surely speak The thing I shall repent . See , see , your silence , Cunning in dumbness , from my weakness draws My very soul of counsel : Stop , my mouth . Troilus . And shall , albeit ...
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... hold : Unarm , sweet Hector . Hector . Hold you still , I say ; Mine honour keeps the weather of my fate ; Life every man holds dear ; but the dear man Holds honour far more precious - dear than life.— Enter TROILUS . How now , young ...
... hold : Unarm , sweet Hector . Hector . Hold you still , I say ; Mine honour keeps the weather of my fate ; Life every man holds dear ; but the dear man Holds honour far more precious - dear than life.— Enter TROILUS . How now , young ...
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