Midsummer-night's dream. Romeo and JulietHarper & brothers, 1884 |
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Page 27
... look at the tombs of departed greatness , every emotion of envy dies within me . " I have never been so sacrilegious as to envy Shakespeare , in the bad sense of the word , but if there can be such an emotion as sinless envy , I feel it ...
... look at the tombs of departed greatness , every emotion of envy dies within me . " I have never been so sacrilegious as to envy Shakespeare , in the bad sense of the word , but if there can be such an emotion as sinless envy , I feel it ...
Page 45
... look'd but with my eyes . Theseus . Rather your eyes must with his judgment look . Hermia . I do entreat your grace to pardon me . I know not by what power I am made bold , Nor how it may concern my modesty , In such a presence here to ...
... look'd but with my eyes . Theseus . Rather your eyes must with his judgment look . Hermia . I do entreat your grace to pardon me . I know not by what power I am made bold , Nor how it may concern my modesty , In such a presence here to ...
Page 47
... look you arm yourself To fit your fancies to your father's will ; Or else the law of Athens yields you up— Which by no means we may extenuate— To death , or to a vow of single life.— Come , my Hippolyta : what cheer , my love ...
... look you arm yourself To fit your fancies to your father's will ; Or else the law of Athens yields you up— Which by no means we may extenuate— To death , or to a vow of single life.— Come , my Hippolyta : what cheer , my love ...
Page 49
... Look , here comes Helena . Enter HELENA . Hermia . God speed fair Helena ! whither away ? Helena . Call you me fair ? that fair again unsay . Demetrius loves your fair : O happy fair ! Your eyes are lode - stars , and your tongue's ...
... Look , here comes Helena . Enter HELENA . Hermia . God speed fair Helena ! whither away ? Helena . Call you me fair ? that fair again unsay . Demetrius loves your fair : O happy fair ! Your eyes are lode - stars , and your tongue's ...
Page 50
... looks not with the eyes , but with the mind ; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind : Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste ; Wings and no eyes figure ... look'd on Hermia's eyne , He hail'd 50 A MIDSUMMER - NIGHT'S DREAM .
... looks not with the eyes , but with the mind ; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind : Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste ; Wings and no eyes figure ... look'd on Hermia's eyne , He hail'd 50 A MIDSUMMER - NIGHT'S DREAM .
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Page 54 - Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts, and wakes ; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Page 53 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid; Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub, Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Page 48 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 63 - CHORUS. Philomel, with melody Sing in our sweet lullaby; Lulla, lulla, lullaby ; lulla, lulla, lullaby ; Never harm, nor spell nor charm, Come our lovely lady nigh; So, good night, with lullaby.
Page 65 - Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have spoke: but farewell compliment! Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay...
Page 54 - True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air And more inconstant than the wind...
Page 59 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 53 - Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love : O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight: O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees: O'er ladies...
Page 100 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 186 - He was perfumed like a milliner; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took 't away again; Who therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff...