Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lostC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... prays that Charles II . may exceed both the vir- tues and fufficiencies of his father . JOHNSON . The uncommon redundancy , as well as obfcurity , of this verse may be confidered as fome evidence of its corruption Take away the three ...
... prays that Charles II . may exceed both the vir- tues and fufficiencies of his father . JOHNSON . The uncommon redundancy , as well as obfcurity , of this verse may be confidered as fome evidence of its corruption Take away the three ...
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... prays for peace . 2 Gent . I never heard any foldier dislike it , Lucio I believe thee ; for , I think , thou never waft where grace was faid . 2 Gent . No ? a dozen times at least , 1 Gent , I Gent . What ? 7 in metre ? Lucio MEASURE ...
... prays for peace . 2 Gent . I never heard any foldier dislike it , Lucio I believe thee ; for , I think , thou never waft where grace was faid . 2 Gent . No ? a dozen times at least , 1 Gent , I Gent . What ? 7 in metre ? Lucio MEASURE ...
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... prayer not to be holy ; as nothing can make a villain not to be a villain . This feems to be the mean- ing , fuch as it is . JOHNSON . there went but a pair of sheers between us . ] We are both of the fame piece . JOHNSON . So in the ...
... prayer not to be holy ; as nothing can make a villain not to be a villain . This feems to be the mean- ing , fuch as it is . JOHNSON . there went but a pair of sheers between us . ] We are both of the fame piece . JOHNSON . So in the ...
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... pray ? 2 Gent . To three thousand dollars a year . ' I Gent . Ay , and more . Lucio . A French crown more . I Gent . pil'd , as thou art pil'd , for a French velvet . ] The jeft about the pile of a French velvet alludes to the lofs of ...
... pray ? 2 Gent . To three thousand dollars a year . ' I Gent . Ay , and more . Lucio . A French crown more . I Gent . pil'd , as thou art pil'd , for a French velvet . ] The jeft about the pile of a French velvet alludes to the lofs of ...
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... pray , he may as well for the encourage- ment of the like , which elfe would ftand under griev- ous impofition ; as for the enjoying of thy life , wha I would be forry fhould be thus foolishly loft at a game of tick - tack . I'll to her ...
... pray , he may as well for the encourage- ment of the like , which elfe would ftand under griev- ous impofition ; as for the enjoying of thy life , wha I would be forry fhould be thus foolishly loft at a game of tick - tack . I'll to her ...
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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 245 - 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 246 - 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 455 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Page 334 - 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 407 - 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 296 - 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 407 - 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.