The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 14R. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... word , good citizens . 1 CIT . We are accounted poor citizens ; the patricians , good ' : What authority surfeits on , would relieve us ; If they would yield us but the super- fluity , while it were wholesome , we might guess , they ...
... word , good citizens . 1 CIT . We are accounted poor citizens ; the patricians , good ' : What authority surfeits on , would relieve us ; If they would yield us but the super- fluity , while it were wholesome , we might guess , they ...
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... word rake ; " as lean as a rake " is , therefore , as lean as a dog too worthless to be fed . JOHNSON . It may be so : and yet I believe the proverb , " as lean as a rake , " owes its origin simply to the thin taper form of the instru ...
... word rake ; " as lean as a rake " is , therefore , as lean as a dog too worthless to be fed . JOHNSON . It may be so : and yet I believe the proverb , " as lean as a rake , " owes its origin simply to the thin taper form of the instru ...
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... word is still used in the North . The sense of the old reading is , Though some of you have heard the story , I will spread it yet wider , and diffuse it among the rest . A measure of wine spilt , is called- " a scal'd pottle of wine ...
... word is still used in the North . The sense of the old reading is , Though some of you have heard the story , I will spread it yet wider , and diffuse it among the rest . A measure of wine spilt , is called- " a scal'd pottle of wine ...
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... word as a verb ' : " He cranks and crosses , with a thousand doubles . " He has a similar metaphor in Hamlet : " The natural gates and alleys of the body . " MALONE . And no way from yourselves . - What do you SC . I .. 13 CORIOLANUS .
... word as a verb ' : " He cranks and crosses , with a thousand doubles . " He has a similar metaphor in Hamlet : " The natural gates and alleys of the body . " MALONE . And no way from yourselves . - What do you SC . I .. 13 CORIOLANUS .
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... word . MAR . He that will give good words to thee , will flatter Beneath abhorring . - What would you have , you curs , That like nor peace , nor war ? the one affrights you , The other makes you proud . He that trusts you , Where he ...
... word . MAR . He that will give good words to thee , will flatter Beneath abhorring . - What would you have , you curs , That like nor peace , nor war ? the one affrights you , The other makes you proud . He that trusts you , Where he ...
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ancient Antigonus appear Aufidius Autolycus bear beseech blood Bohemia BOSWELL called Camillo Cominius consul Coriolanus Corioli Cymbeline death editors emendation enemy Enter Exeunt eyes father fear give gods hand Hanmer hath hear heart Hermione honour JOHNSON Julius Cæsar King Henry lady LART LARTIUS LEON Leontes lord Love's Labour's Lost Macbeth MALONE MASON means Menenius mother never noble old copy Othello passage PAUL Paulina peace Perdita perhaps play Plutarch Polixenes pr'ythee Pray present prince queen Roman Rome SCENE second folio senate sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's SHEP SICINIUS signifies speak speech stand STEEVENS suppose sword tell thee Theobald thing thou art Timon of Athens tongue tribunes Troilus and Cressida true Tullus TYRWHITT voices Volces Volumnia WARBURTON wife Winter's Tale word worthy Сом
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Page 348 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 16 - Who deserves greatness Deserves your hate ; and your affections are A sick man's appetite, who desires most that Which would increase his evil. He that depends Upon your favours swims with fins of lead And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye ! Trust ye ? With every minute you do change a mind, And call him noble that was now your hate, Him vile that was your garland.
Page 231 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster, with fire and smoke...