Shakspeare Diversions: Second Series, from Dogberry to HamletDaldy, Isbister, & Company, 1877 - 479 pages |
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... seen to " smile as men smile who are conscious of superior information . " Hardly a tale or a volume of miscellanies by Dickens but has its fling at the Beadle . In one of his latest books he said of that functionary with unrelenting ...
... seen to " smile as men smile who are conscious of superior information . " Hardly a tale or a volume of miscellanies by Dickens but has its fling at the Beadle . In one of his latest books he said of that functionary with unrelenting ...
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... seen , had once to do with a Lord Mayor of the Dogberry order ; and so had he , in later life ( 1668 ) , with a humbler specimen , more nearly of the Verges and Seacoal status : " We had like to have met with a stop for all night at the ...
... seen , had once to do with a Lord Mayor of the Dogberry order ; and so had he , in later life ( 1668 ) , with a humbler specimen , more nearly of the Verges and Seacoal status : " We had like to have met with a stop for all night at the ...
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... seen much , and to have nothing . Crabbe's decayed merchant cherishes a very present pride in past losses : " His failing is avow'd ; He of the cause that made him poor is proud ; Proud of his greatness , of the sums he spent , And ...
... seen much , and to have nothing . Crabbe's decayed merchant cherishes a very present pride in past losses : " His failing is avow'd ; He of the cause that made him poor is proud ; Proud of his greatness , of the sums he spent , And ...
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... seen better days , " groans Mrs. Oliphant's Archdeacon Beverley : " It is hard to know how to get one's self into sympathy with those faded existences . " They fill him with an infinite pity ; but then what can one do ? If one tries to ...
... seen better days , " groans Mrs. Oliphant's Archdeacon Beverley : " It is hard to know how to get one's self into sympathy with those faded existences . " They fill him with an infinite pity ; but then what can one do ? If one tries to ...
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... seen better days , " and liked it to be known ; and of that " young man , of superior appearance , ' " the son of a captain in on the same chord , and tries even Mr. Boffin's good - nature with her acidulated droppings of reference to ...
... seen better days , " and liked it to be known ; and of that " young man , of superior appearance , ' " the son of a captain in on the same chord , and tries even Mr. Boffin's good - nature with her acidulated droppings of reference to ...
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Page 455 - I'll leave you till night; you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Giiildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' ye :—Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and 'peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Page 357 - Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say, This thing's to do ; Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Page 404 - Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice, And could of men distinguish her election, She hath seal'd thee for herself: for thou hast been As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing; A man, that fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks...
Page 55 - When he shall hear she died upon his words, The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination...
Page 397 - O, this is hire and salary, not revenge. He took my father grossly, full of bread; With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May; And how his audit stands, who knows save heaven? But in our circumstance and course of thought, Tis heavy with him...
Page 55 - Of every hearer: for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 116 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts: I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood...
Page 166 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Page 270 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Page 107 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it. Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances ; Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...