Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost |
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A better expreffion indeed , but , for all that , none of Shakespeare's . WARBURTON . I know not whether we may not better read , One that can my part to him advertise , One that can inform himself of that which it would be otherwife my ...
A better expreffion indeed , but , for all that , none of Shakespeare's . WARBURTON . I know not whether we may not better read , One that can my part to him advertise , One that can inform himself of that which it would be otherwife my ...
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Thus explained , it fuits better with prepared than levelled . JOHNSON . 6 --your fcope is as mine own . ] That is , Your amplitude of power . JOHNSON . Efcal . Efcal . I fhall defire you , fir , to 10 MEASURE FOR MEASURE .
Thus explained , it fuits better with prepared than levelled . JOHNSON . 6 --your fcope is as mine own . ] That is , Your amplitude of power . JOHNSON . Efcal . Efcal . I fhall defire you , fir , to 10 MEASURE FOR MEASURE .
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... and wrinkled , than the aims and ends Of burning youth . Fri. May your grace fpeak of it ? Duke . My holy fir , none better knows than you , How I have ever lov'd the life remov'd ; And held in idle price to haunt ...
... and wrinkled , than the aims and ends Of burning youth . Fri. May your grace fpeak of it ? Duke . My holy fir , none better knows than you , How I have ever lov'd the life remov'd ; And held in idle price to haunt ...
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3 Ay , fir , by mistress Over - done's means : ] Here feems to have been fome mention made of Froth , who was to be accufed , and fome words therefore may have been loft , unless the irregularity of the narrative may be better imputed ...
3 Ay , fir , by mistress Over - done's means : ] Here feems to have been fome mention made of Froth , who was to be accufed , and fome words therefore may have been loft , unless the irregularity of the narrative may be better imputed ...
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Are you not ? come , tell me true ; it shall be the better for you . Clown . Truly , fir , I am a poor fellow that would live . Efcal . How would you live , Pompey ? by being a bawd ? What do you think of the trade , Pompey ? is it a ...
Are you not ? come , tell me true ; it shall be the better for you . Clown . Truly , fir , I am a poor fellow that would live . Efcal . How would you live , Pompey ? by being a bawd ? What do you think of the trade , Pompey ? is it a ...
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Page 42 - Alas ! alas ! 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 247 - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Page 248 - And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Page 457 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Page 336 - These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are.
Page 409 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Page 298 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours...
Page 8 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use.
Page 409 - Subtle as sphinx: as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
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| Title | Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost Volume 2 of The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editors | Samuel Johnson, George Steevens |
| Publisher | C. Bathurst, 1773 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 28 Dec 2006 |
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