Shakespeare's Library: A Collection of the Plays, Romances, Novels, Poems, and Histories Employed by Shakespeare in the Composition of His Works, Page 1, Volume 4William Carew Hazlitt Reeves and Turner, 1875 |
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Page 117 - WHILOM, as olde stories tellen us, Ther was a duk that highte Theseus; Of Athenes he was lord and governour, And in his tyme swich a conquerour, That gretter was ther non under the sonne. Ful many a riche contre...
Page 232 - The Painful Adventures of Pericles Prince of Tyre. Being the true History of the Play of Pericles, as it was lately presented by the worthy and ancient Poet John Gower.
Page 90 - I could in my fantasy wish or desire. She hath all the virtuous qualities that ought to be in a woman of her dignity, or in any other of baser estate. Surely she is also a noble woman born, if nothing were in her, but only her conditions will well declare the same.
Page 175 - Greet was theffect, and heigh was his entente ; Wei wiste he why, and what ther-of he mente ; For with that faire cheyne of love he bond . The fyr, the eyr, the water, and the lond In certeyn boundes, that they may nat flee ; 2135 That same prince and that moevere...
Page 7 - It is a nation, would I answer Plato, that hath no kinde of traffike, no knowledge of Letters, no intelligence of numbers, no name of magistrate...
Page 171 - Right as ther dyed nevere man," quod he, "That he ne lyvede in erthe in some degree. Right so ther lyvede never man," he seyde, "In al this world, that som tyme he ne deyde. This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo. And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro. Deeth is an ende of every worldly soore.
Page 117 - I wolde have toold yow fully the manere How wonnen was the regne of Femenye By Theseus, and by his chivalrye, And of the grete bataille for the nones...
Page 160 - My cours, that hath so wyde for to turne, Hath moore power than woot any man. Myn is the drenchyng in the see so wan, Myn is the prison in the derke cote, Myn is the stranglyng and hangyng by the throte, The murmure, and the cherles rebellyng, The groynynge, and the pryvee empoysonyng.
Page 18 - Pandosto, The Triumph of Time. Wherein is Discovered by a pleasant Historic, that although by the meanes of sinister fortune, Truth may be concealed, yet by Time in spight of fortune it is most manifestly revealed.
Page 169 - What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, withouten any compaignye.