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With that he gave his able horse the head , And , bending forward , Aruck his
agile heels Against the panting fides of his poor jade Up to the rowel - head ; and
, starting fo , He seem'd in running to devour the way , Scaying no longer
question .
With that he gave his able horse the head , And , bending forward , Aruck his
agile heels Against the panting fides of his poor jade Up to the rowel - head ; and
, starting fo , He seem'd in running to devour the way , Scaying no longer
question .
Page 83
Have you the heart ? when your head did but ake ; I knit my handkerchief about
your brows ; ( The best I had , a princess wrought it me ) And I did never ask it you
again ; And with my hand at midnight held your head ; And , like the watchful ...
Have you the heart ? when your head did but ake ; I knit my handkerchief about
your brows ; ( The best I had , a princess wrought it me ) And I did never ask it you
again ; And with my hand at midnight held your head ; And , like the watchful ...
Page 125
You sulph'rous and thought - executing fires , ( 14 ) Vaunt - couriers of oak -
cleaving thunder - bolts , Singe my white head . And thou all - shaking thunder ,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o'th world ; Crack nature's mould , all ( 15 ) germins
spill at ...
You sulph'rous and thought - executing fires , ( 14 ) Vaunt - couriers of oak -
cleaving thunder - bolts , Singe my white head . And thou all - shaking thunder ,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o'th world ; Crack nature's mould , all ( 15 ) germins
spill at ...
Page 145
We have scorch'd the snake , we have indeed Hercules like , cut off one of its
heads , and scorch'd it , as it were , as he did , affifted by Jolaus , hindering that
one head , thus scorch'd from sprouting again ; but such a wound will close and
cure ...
We have scorch'd the snake , we have indeed Hercules like , cut off one of its
heads , and scorch'd it , as it were , as he did , affifted by Jolaus , hindering that
one head , thus scorch'd from sprouting again ; but such a wound will close and
cure ...
Page 203
What if her eyes were there , they in her head ? The brightness of her cheek
would shame those stars , As day - light dotb a lamp : her eyes in heav'n , Would
through the airy region stream fo bright , That birds would fing , and think it were
not ...
What if her eyes were there , they in her head ? The brightness of her cheek
would shame those stars , As day - light dotb a lamp : her eyes in heav'n , Would
through the airy region stream fo bright , That birds would fing , and think it were
not ...
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| Title | 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 The beauties of Shakespear: regularly selected from each play, with explanatory notes and similar passages from ancient and modern authors by W. Dodd, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | William Dodd |
| Published | 1752 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 4 Jul 2007 |
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