Sketch of the life of Shakespeare. Tempest. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Merry Wives of Windsor. Twelfth Night. Measure for Measure. Much Ado about Nothing. Midsummer Night's Dream. Love's Labour's Lost. Merchant of Venice. As You Like It. All's Well That Ends Well. Taming of the Shrew. Winter's Tale. Comedy of Errors. Macbeth. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, pts. 1-2. King Henry V |
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... wife was the daughter and that of the Ghost in Hamlet : and the best critics heiress of Robert Arden , of Wellington , in the and inquirers into his life are of opinion , that he county of Warwick , by whom he had a family of was not ...
... wife was the daughter and that of the Ghost in Hamlet : and the best critics heiress of Robert Arden , of Wellington , in the and inquirers into his life are of opinion , that he county of Warwick , by whom he had a family of was not ...
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... wife and children ! - complexion is perfect gallows . Stand fast , good Farewell , brother ! —We split , we split , we split.— ( 1 ) Readily . ( 2 ) Present instant . ( 3 ) Incontinent . ( 4 ) Absolutely . Mira . But that I do not . Ant ...
... wife and children ! - complexion is perfect gallows . Stand fast , good Farewell , brother ! —We split , we split , we split.— ( 1 ) Readily . ( 2 ) Present instant . ( 3 ) Incontinent . ( 4 ) Absolutely . Mira . But that I do not . Ant ...
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... wife , The masters of some merchant , and the merchant , Have just our theme of wo : but for the miracle , I mean our preservation , few in millions Can speak like us : then wisely , good sir , weigh Our sorrow with our comfort . Pr ...
... wife , The masters of some merchant , and the merchant , Have just our theme of wo : but for the miracle , I mean our preservation , few in millions Can speak like us : then wisely , good sir , weigh Our sorrow with our comfort . Pr ...
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... wife , Make this place Paradise . [ Juno and Ceres whisper , and send Iris on employment . Sweet now , silence ; There's something else to do : hush , and be mute , Or else our spell is marr'd . Iris . You nymphs , call'd Naiads , of ...
... wife , Make this place Paradise . [ Juno and Ceres whisper , and send Iris on employment . Sweet now , silence ; There's something else to do : hush , and be mute , Or else our spell is marr'd . Iris . You nymphs , call'd Naiads , of ...
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... wife as your fair daughter : Cannot your grace win her to fancy him ? Duke . No , trust me ; she is peevish , sullen , fro- ward , Proud , disobedient , stubborn , lacking duty ; Neither regarding that she is my child , Nor fearing me ...
... wife as your fair daughter : Cannot your grace win her to fancy him ? Duke . No , trust me ; she is peevish , sullen , fro- ward , Proud , disobedient , stubborn , lacking duty ; Neither regarding that she is my child , Nor fearing me ...
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Page 322 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly : if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come.
Page 366 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?
Page 423 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — O Sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down...
Page 201 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines...
Page 201 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus : Let no such man be trusted.
Page 373 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be...
Page 209 - 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 19 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears ; and sometime voices, That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me ; that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again.
Page 251 - I cannot reconcile my heart to Bertram ; a man noble without generosity, and young without truth ; who marries Helen as a coward, and leaves her as a profligate . when she is dead by his unkindness, sneaks home to a second marriage, is accused by a woman whom he has wronged, defends himself by falsehood, and is dismissed to happiness.
Page 457 - Tomorrow is Saint Crispian " : Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say " These wounds I had on Crispin's day." Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember with advantages What feats he did that day: then shall our names, Familiar in...