The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 7F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... Leonato . BEATRICE , Niece to Leonato . MARGARET , URSULA . } Gentlewomen attending on Hero . Messengers , Watch , and Attendants . SCENE , Messina . MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING . ACT I. SCENE I. Before PERSONS REPRESENTED. ...
... Leonato . BEATRICE , Niece to Leonato . MARGARET , URSULA . } Gentlewomen attending on Hero . Messengers , Watch , and Attendants . SCENE , Messina . MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING . ACT I. SCENE I. Before PERSONS REPRESENTED. ...
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... Watch . DOGB . Are you good men and true ? VERG . Yea , or else it were pity but they should suffer salvation , body and soul . DOGB . Nay , that were a punishment too good for them , if they should have any allegiance in them , being ...
... Watch . DOGB . Are you good men and true ? VERG . Yea , or else it were pity but they should suffer salvation , body and soul . DOGB . Nay , that were a punishment too good for them , if they should have any allegiance in them , being ...
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... WATCH . Hugh Oatcake , sir , or George Sea- coal ; for they can write and read . DOGB . Come hither , neighbour Seacoal : God hath blessed you with a good name : to be a well- favoured man is the gift of fortune ; but to write and read ...
... WATCH . Hugh Oatcake , sir , or George Sea- coal ; for they can write and read . DOGB . Come hither , neighbour Seacoal : God hath blessed you with a good name : to be a well- favoured man is the gift of fortune ; but to write and read ...
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... watch- men at Lichfield . It was the old weapon of English infantry , which , says Temple , gave the most ghastly and deplorable wounds . It may be called securis falcata . JOHNSON . About Shakspeare's time halberds were the weapons ...
... watch- men at Lichfield . It was the old weapon of English infantry , which , says Temple , gave the most ghastly and deplorable wounds . It may be called securis falcata . JOHNSON . About Shakspeare's time halberds were the weapons ...
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... WATCH . How if they will not ? DOGB . Why then , let them alone till they are sober ; if they make you not then the better answer , you may say , they are not the men you took them for . 2 WATCH . Well , sir . DOGB . If you meet a thief ...
... WATCH . How if they will not ? DOGB . Why then , let them alone till they are sober ; if they make you not then the better answer , you may say , they are not the men you took them for . 2 WATCH . Well , sir . DOGB . If you meet a thief ...
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Page 475 - No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither •with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it : As thus ; Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam : And why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel...
Page 335 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue ; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do ', I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 206 - God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Page 315 - A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward? Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face? Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs?
Page 421 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Page 504 - Hamlet wrong'd Laertes ? Never Hamlet : If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away, And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes, Then Hamlet does it not ; Hamlet denies it. Who does it then ? His madness. If't be so, Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd ; His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy.
Page 372 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Page 235 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Page 284 - tis none to you ; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so : to me it is a prison.
Page 420 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.