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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... nothing A local habitation and a name . See Midfummer Night's Dream , p . 87 . VOL . II , LONDON Printed for T. WALLER , at the Mitre and Crotun , oppofite Fetter - Lane , Fleet - ftreet : MDCCLII BODLEIAN LIBR 22 JUN 1027 OX : ORD RY YX-
... nothing A local habitation and a name . See Midfummer Night's Dream , p . 87 . VOL . II , LONDON Printed for T. WALLER , at the Mitre and Crotun , oppofite Fetter - Lane , Fleet - ftreet : MDCCLII BODLEIAN LIBR 22 JUN 1027 OX : ORD RY YX-
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... night been A banish'd woman from my Harry's bed ? Tell me , fweet lord , ' what is't that takes from thee Thy ftomach , pleasure , and thy golden fleep ? Why doft thou bend thy eyes upon the earth , And start so often , when thou fitt ...
... night been A banish'd woman from my Harry's bed ? Tell me , fweet lord , ' what is't that takes from thee Thy ftomach , pleasure , and thy golden fleep ? Why doft thou bend thy eyes upon the earth , And start so often , when thou fitt ...
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... night , The hour before the heavenly - harnefs'd team Fegins his golden progrefs in the east . Who fhall now tell you How much I lov'd you ? who fhall fwear it to you , And weep the tears I fend ? who fhall now bring you Letters , rings ...
... night , The hour before the heavenly - harnefs'd team Fegins his golden progrefs in the east . Who fhall now tell you How much I lov'd you ? who fhall fwear it to you , And weep the tears I fend ? who fhall now bring you Letters , rings ...
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... night the flies Noify thro ' fhades obfcure , ' twixt earth and heav ' Nor are her eyes by pleafing number clos'd ; Watchful and prying round , by day , the fits On fome high palace top , or lofty tow'r , And mighty towns alarms : nor ...
... night the flies Noify thro ' fhades obfcure , ' twixt earth and heav ' Nor are her eyes by pleafing number clos'd ; Watchful and prying round , by day , the fits On fome high palace top , or lofty tow'r , And mighty towns alarms : nor ...
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... night , And would have told him half his Troy was burn'd . I fee a strange confeffion in thine eye ; Thou fhak'ft thy head , and hold ft it fear or fin To fpeak.a truth : If he be flain , say so ; The tongue offends not that reports his ...
... night , And would have told him half his Troy was burn'd . I fee a strange confeffion in thine eye ; Thou fhak'ft thy head , and hold ft it fear or fin To fpeak.a truth : If he be flain , say so ; The tongue offends not that reports his ...
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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...