Dramatic Works: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, Life, Etc, Volume 2Routledge, 1852 |
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... never heard a play ) , You break into some merry passion , And so offend him : for I tell you , Sirs , If you should smile , he grows impatient . 1 Play . Fear not , my lord ; we can contain ourselves , Were he the veriest antick in the ...
... never heard a play ) , You break into some merry passion , And so offend him : for I tell you , Sirs , If you should smile , he grows impatient . 1 Play . Fear not , my lord ; we can contain ourselves , Were he the veriest antick in the ...
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... never drank sack in my life ; and if you give me any conserves , give me conserves of beef : Ne'er ask me what rai- ment I'll wear ; for I have no more doublets than backs , no more stockings than legs , nor no more shoes than feet ...
... never drank sack in my life ; and if you give me any conserves , give me conserves of beef : Ne'er ask me what rai- ment I'll wear ; for I have no more doublets than backs , no more stockings than legs , nor no more shoes than feet ...
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... never speak of all that time ? 1 Serv . O , yes , my lord ; but very idle words : - For though you lay here in this goodly chamber , Yet would you say , ye were beaten out of door ; And rail upon the hostess of the house ; And say , you ...
... never speak of all that time ? 1 Serv . O , yes , my lord ; but very idle words : - For though you lay here in this goodly chamber , Yet would you say , ye were beaten out of door ; And rail upon the hostess of the house ; And say , you ...
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... never make denial , I must and will have Katharine to my wife . Re - enter BAPTISTA , GREMIO , and TRANIO . Bap . Now , Signior Petruchio : How speed you with My daughter ? Pet . How but well , Sir ? how but well ? It were impossible I ...
... never make denial , I must and will have Katharine to my wife . Re - enter BAPTISTA , GREMIO , and TRANIO . Bap . Now , Signior Petruchio : How speed you with My daughter ? Pet . How but well , Sir ? how but well ? It were impossible I ...
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... never read so far To know the cause why music was ordain'd ! Was it not to refresh the mind of man , After his studies , or his usual pain ? Then give me leave to read philosophy , And , while I pause , serve in your harmony . Hor ...
... never read so far To know the cause why music was ordain'd ! Was it not to refresh the mind of man , After his studies , or his usual pain ? Then give me leave to read philosophy , And , while I pause , serve in your harmony . Hor ...
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Page 432 - With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And, in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king ? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 391 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it ? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why? Detraction will, not suffer it: — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 162 - What you do Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet, 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 243 - Like the poor cat i' the adage? MACB. Prithee, peace. I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. LADY M. What beast was't, then, That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both. They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know How tender...
Page 161 - Say there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean : so, o'er 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 ~\\ hich does mend nature, — change it rather ; but The art itself is nature.
Page 326 - As, in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious ; Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard; no man cried, God save him...