The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr., embracing a life of the poet and notes, Volume 2 |
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... fair Hippolyta , our nuptial hour Draws on apace ; four happy days bring in Another moon . But , O , methinks how slow This old moon wanes ! She lingers my desires , Like to a step - dame , or a dowager , Long withering out a young ...
... fair Hippolyta , our nuptial hour Draws on apace ; four happy days bring in Another moon . But , O , methinks how slow This old moon wanes ! She lingers my desires , Like to a step - dame , or a dowager , Long withering out a young ...
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... fair Hermia , look you arm yourself To fit your fancies to your father's will ; Or else the law of Athens yields you up ( Which by no means we may extenuate ) Tc death , or to a vow of single life.— Come , my Hippolyta . What cheer , my ...
... fair Hermia , look you arm yourself To fit your fancies to your father's will ; Or else the law of Athens yields you up ( Which by no means we may extenuate ) Tc death , or to a vow of single life.— Come , my Hippolyta . What cheer , my ...
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... fair ? That fair again unsay . Demetrius loves your fair . O happy fair ! Your eyes are lode - stars ; and your tongue's sweet air More tunable than lark to shepherd's ear , When wheat is green , when hawthorn buds appear . Sickness is ...
... fair ? That fair again unsay . Demetrius loves your fair . O happy fair ! Your eyes are lode - stars ; and your tongue's sweet air More tunable than lark to shepherd's ear , When wheat is green , when hawthorn buds appear . Sickness is ...
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... fair as she . But what of that ? Demetrius thinks not so ; He will not know what all but he do know . And as he errs , doting on Hermia's eyes , So I , admiring of his qualities . Things base and vile , holding no quantity , Love can ...
... fair as she . But what of that ? Demetrius thinks not so ; He will not know what all but he do know . And as he errs , doting on Hermia's eyes , So I , admiring of his qualities . Things base and vile , holding no quantity , Love can ...
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... fair Ægle break his faith , With Ariadne , and Antiopa ? 1 Tita . These are the forgeries of jealousy ; And never , since the middle summer's spring , 2 Met we on hill , in dale , forest , or mead , By paved fountain , or by rushy brook ...
... fair Ægle break his faith , With Ariadne , and Antiopa ? 1 Tita . These are the forgeries of jealousy ; And never , since the middle summer's spring , 2 Met we on hill , in dale , forest , or mead , By paved fountain , or by rushy brook ...
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Page 289 - With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound : last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness, and mere oblivion ; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Page 20 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 273 - The seasons' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, — This is no flattery : these are counsellors, That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 165 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!
Page 175 - If to do, were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.