The Winter's TaleGinn & Company, 1887 - 66 pages |
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... Sicilia was overcome with jealousy of his wife with the King of Bohemia , his friend that came to see him , and how he contrived his death , and would have had his cup- bearer poison him , who gave the King warning thereof , and fled ...
... Sicilia was overcome with jealousy of his wife with the King of Bohemia , his friend that came to see him , and how he contrived his death , and would have had his cup- bearer poison him , who gave the King warning thereof , and fled ...
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... Sicilia , and by the jewels found about her she was known to be Leontes ' daughter , and was then sixteen years old . " This clearly identifies the performance seen by Forman as The Winter's Tale of Shakespeare . It is altogether ...
... Sicilia , and by the jewels found about her she was known to be Leontes ' daughter , and was then sixteen years old . " This clearly identifies the performance seen by Forman as The Winter's Tale of Shakespeare . It is altogether ...
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... Sicilia , had passed their boyhood together , and grown into a mutual friendship which kept its hold on them long after coming to their crowns . Pandosto had for his wife a very wise and beautiful lady named Bellaria , who had made him ...
... Sicilia , had passed their boyhood together , and grown into a mutual friendship which kept its hold on them long after coming to their crowns . Pandosto had for his wife a very wise and beautiful lady named Bellaria , who had made him ...
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... Sicilia . Full of rage at being thus baffled , Pan- dosto then let loose his fury against the Queen , ordering her forthwith into close prison . He then had his suspicion pro- claimed as a certain truth ; and though her character went ...
... Sicilia . Full of rage at being thus baffled , Pan- dosto then let loose his fury against the Queen , ordering her forthwith into close prison . He then had his suspicion pro- claimed as a certain truth ; and though her character went ...
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... Sicilia , where it stuck in the sand . A poor shepherd , missing one of his sheep , wandered to the seaside in search of it . As he was about to return he heard a cry , and , there being no house near , he thought it might be the ...
... Sicilia , where it stuck in the sand . A poor shepherd , missing one of his sheep , wandered to the seaside in search of it . As he was about to return he heard a cry , and , there being no house near , he thought it might be the ...
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Antigonus Autolycus babe ballad bear beauty beseech blood Bohemia C. M. Ingleby Camillo Capell child CLEOMENES Clown Collier's second folio colour Court Cymbeline dance daughter death Delphos Dion do't Egistus Exeunt Exit eyes father fear Florizel follows foot-note Gent gentleman give grace gracious hand Hanmer hast hath hear heart Heavens Herm Hermione honest honour in't jealousy kill'd King King Lear King of Bohemia King's lady Leon Leontes Lettsom look lord means mind mistress nature never noble old text on't oracle original oxlip Pandosto passage Paul Paulina Perdita play Poet Poet's Polix Polixenes pr'ythee Pray Prince Queen SCENE seems sense Shakespeare Shep Shepherdesses Sicilia sorrow speak speech stand swear sweet tale thee thing thou art thought to't true Twelfth Night wife WILLIAM MINTO Winter's Tale woman word
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Page 119 - I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that...
Page 32 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Page 117 - 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 116 - Sir, the year growing ancient, Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o...
Page 119 - The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength — a malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and The crown-imperial ; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one ! O, these I lack, To make you garlands of, and my sweet friend, To strew him o'er and o'er.
Page 112 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.
Page 123 - Lawn as white as driven snow ; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses ; Masks for faces and for noses ; Bugle bracelet, necklace amber, Perfume for a lady's chamber ; Golden quoifs and stomachers, For my lads to give their dears: Pins and poking-sticks of steel. What maids lack from head to heel: Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy; Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry : Come buy.
Page 33 - This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever Ran on the green-sward : nothing she does or seems But smacks of something greater than herself, Too noble for this place.
Page 93 - Hermione is chaste, Polixenes blameless, Camillo a true subject, Leontes a jealous tyrant, his innocent babe truly begotten ; and the king shall live •without an heir, if that, which is lost, be not found.