The beauties of Shakespear: regularly selected from each play, with explanatory notes and similar passages from ancient and modern authors by W. Dodd, Volume 2 |
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William Shakespeare William Dodd. BODLEIAN LIBR 22 JUN 1027 OX : ORD RY YX- 21 " THE CONTENTS . OF THE SECOND VOLUM E. HENRY IV.
William Shakespeare William Dodd. BODLEIAN LIBR 22 JUN 1027 OX : ORD RY YX- 21 " THE CONTENTS . OF THE SECOND VOLUM E. HENRY IV.
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William Shakespeare William Dodd. ACT II . SCENE VI . Lady Piercy's pathetick Speech to her Husband . ( 5 ) O my good lord , why are you thus alone ? For what offence have I this fort - night been A banish'd woman from my Harry's bed ...
William Shakespeare William Dodd. ACT II . SCENE VI . Lady Piercy's pathetick Speech to her Husband . ( 5 ) O my good lord , why are you thus alone ? For what offence have I this fort - night been A banish'd woman from my Harry's bed ...
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William Shakespeare William Dodd. SCENE IV . King Henry the 4th to his Son . Had I fo lavish of my prefence been , So common hackney'd in the eyes of men , So ftale and cheap to vulgar company ; Opinion , that did help me to the crown ...
William Shakespeare William Dodd. SCENE IV . King Henry the 4th to his Son . Had I fo lavish of my prefence been , So common hackney'd in the eyes of men , So ftale and cheap to vulgar company ; Opinion , that did help me to the crown ...
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William Shakespeare William Dodd. ACT V. SCENE II . Falftaff's Catechifm . ( 12 ) Well , ' tis no matter , honour pricks me on . But how , if honour prick me off , when I come on ? How then ? Can honour fet to a leg ? No ; or an arm ? no ...
William Shakespeare William Dodd. ACT V. SCENE II . Falftaff's Catechifm . ( 12 ) Well , ' tis no matter , honour pricks me on . But how , if honour prick me off , when I come on ? How then ? Can honour fet to a leg ? No ; or an arm ? no ...
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William Shakespeare William Dodd. SCEHE V. Life demands Action . ( 13 ) O gentlemen , the time of life is fhort : To spend that shortness bafely were too long , Tho ' life did ride upon a dial's point , Still ending at th ' arrival of an ...
William Shakespeare William Dodd. SCEHE V. Life demands Action . ( 13 ) O gentlemen , the time of life is fhort : To spend that shortness bafely were too long , Tho ' life did ride upon a dial's point , Still ending at th ' arrival of an ...
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Page 101 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Page 101 - I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse : was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man.
Page 142 - Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.
Page 239 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes : Those scraps are good deeds past ; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Page 102 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Page 122 - Alas! sir, are you here? things that love night love not such nights as these; the wrathful skies gallow the very wanderers of the dark, and make them keep their caves. Since I was man such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never remember to have heard; man's nature cannot carry the affliction nor the fear.
Page 52 - Content!' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
Page 93 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, "Brutus" will start a spirit as soon as "Caesar.
Page 110 - O Cassius ! you are yoked with a lamb That carries anger as the flint bears fire, Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again.
Page 116 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun the moon and the stars ; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves thieves and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards liars and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence, and all that we are evil in by a divine thrusting on...