Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lostC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... Ladies Girdle . " This was my heav'n's extremeft fphere , " The pale that held my lovely deer . " JOHNSON . poor I am but his fale . ] The word frie , in our authour , fed as a fubftantive , means , not fomething offered to allure or at ...
... Ladies Girdle . " This was my heav'n's extremeft fphere , " The pale that held my lovely deer . " JOHNSON . poor I am but his fale . ] The word frie , in our authour , fed as a fubftantive , means , not fomething offered to allure or at ...
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... Lady Abbess . Abb . Be quiet , people ; wherefore throng you hither ? Adr . To fetch my poor distracted husband hence : Let us come in , that we may bind him fast , And bear him home for his recovery . Ang . I knew , he was not in his ...
... Lady Abbess . Abb . Be quiet , people ; wherefore throng you hither ? Adr . To fetch my poor distracted husband hence : Let us come in , that we may bind him fast , And bear him home for his recovery . Ang . I knew , he was not in his ...
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... lady ; It cannot be , that she hath done thee wrong . Adr . May it please your grace , Antipholis my hufband , ( Whom I made lord of me and all I had , At your important letters , ° ) this ill day ( Whom I made lord of me and all I had ...
... lady ; It cannot be , that she hath done thee wrong . Adr . May it please your grace , Antipholis my hufband , ( Whom I made lord of me and all I had , At your important letters , ° ) this ill day ( Whom I made lord of me and all I had ...
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... lady Abbefs come to me ; I will determine this , before I ftir . ↑ And , with his mad attendant AND himself , ] We should read , MAD himself . We might read , WARBURTON . And here his mad attendant and himself , STEEVENS . P 2 Enter ...
... lady Abbefs come to me ; I will determine this , before I ftir . ↑ And , with his mad attendant AND himself , ] We should read , MAD himself . We might read , WARBURTON . And here his mad attendant and himself , STEEVENS . P 2 Enter ...
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... return'd- ] Montante , in Spanish , is a buge two - handed fword , given , with much humour , to one , the fpeaker would reprefent as a boafter or bravado . WARBURTON . Mel Mell . I know none of that name , lady 226 MUCH A DO.
... return'd- ] Montante , in Spanish , is a buge two - handed fword , given , with much humour , to one , the fpeaker would reprefent as a boafter or bravado . WARBURTON . Mel Mell . I know none of that name , lady 226 MUCH A DO.
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Popular passages
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.