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... bring their lips to utter a word of shame . Desdemona cannot even bring herself to speak the coarse word with which her husband taunts her ; she cannot make herself believe that there are women in the world who could stoop to such ...
... bring their lips to utter a word of shame . Desdemona cannot even bring herself to speak the coarse word with which her husband taunts her ; she cannot make herself believe that there are women in the world who could stoop to such ...
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... bring to our remem- brance the following which are to be found in the same Comedy : - Mark you this , Bassanio , The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose . An evil soul , producing holy witness , Is like a villain with a smiling ...
... bring to our remem- brance the following which are to be found in the same Comedy : - Mark you this , Bassanio , The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose . An evil soul , producing holy witness , Is like a villain with a smiling ...
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... bring home , I quickly were dissolved from my hive , To give some labourers room . PORTIA TO LORENZO . OR THE MUTUAL SYMPATHY AND RESEMBLANCE OF FRIENDS . I never did repent for doing good , Nor shall not now : for in companions That do ...
... bring home , I quickly were dissolved from my hive , To give some labourers room . PORTIA TO LORENZO . OR THE MUTUAL SYMPATHY AND RESEMBLANCE OF FRIENDS . I never did repent for doing good , Nor shall not now : for in companions That do ...
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... brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice . If I can catch him once upon the hip , I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him . He hates our sacred nation : and he rails , Even there where merchants most do congregrate ...
... brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice . If I can catch him once upon the hip , I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him . He hates our sacred nation : and he rails , Even there where merchants most do congregrate ...
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... bring . SONG . FROM THE ' PASSIONATE PILGRIM . ' Take , oh , take those lips away , That so sweetly were foresworn ; And those eyes , the break of day , Lights that do mislead the morn : But my kisses bring again , Seals of love , but ...
... bring . SONG . FROM THE ' PASSIONATE PILGRIM . ' Take , oh , take those lips away , That so sweetly were foresworn ; And those eyes , the break of day , Lights that do mislead the morn : But my kisses bring again , Seals of love , but ...
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bear beauty blood breath brow Brutus Cæsar Cassius crown daughter dead dear death deed Desdemona didst Doctor Johnson dost doth DOUBTFUL PLAYS dream earth eyes fair father fear following lines friends gentle GENTLEMEN OF VERONA give Gloster grace grief Hamlet hand hath hear heart heaven HENRY THE SIXTH honour hour Iago JULIUS CÆSAR KING HENRY lady Lear live LOCRINE look lord love's MERCHANT OF VENICE mercy Methinks MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM mind moral Murd murder ne'er never night noble o'er OTHELLO'S Pandulph passage PASSIONATE PILGRIM peace pity PLAY OF KING poet poet's Polonius poor Portia princes queen readers Shak Shakspere Shakspere's sleep SONNET soul speak SPEECH spirit Stratford Stratford-on-Avon sweet taste tears thee thine things thou art thou hast thought thyself Titus Andronicus tongue true unto weep Whilst wife William Shakspere wind words wretched youth
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Page 178 - Alas, poor Yorick ! I knew him, Horatio : a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy : he hath borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar...
Page 183 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 75 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use.
Page 231 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads and hanging them With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds, That with the hurly death itself awakes...
Page 129 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate : Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date...
Page 36 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood, Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly.
Page 188 - O! it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page 158 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Page 189 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 164 - Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us. O, now you weep, and I perceive you feel The dint of pity; these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what! weep you when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.