The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes, Volume 8Munroe, Francis & Parker, 1812 |
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... Give but that portion which yourself propos'd , And here I take Cordelia by the hand , Duchess of Burgundy . Lear . Nothing : I have sworn ; I am firm . Bur . I am sorry then , you have so lost a father , That you must lose a husband ...
... Give but that portion which yourself propos'd , And here I take Cordelia by the hand , Duchess of Burgundy . Lear . Nothing : I have sworn ; I am firm . Bur . I am sorry then , you have so lost a father , That you must lose a husband ...
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... Give me the letter , sir . Edm . I shall offend , either to detain or give it . The contents , as in part I understand them , are to blame . Glo . Let's see , let's see . Edm . I hope , for my brother's justification , he wrote this but ...
... Give me the letter , sir . Edm . I shall offend , either to detain or give it . The contents , as in part I understand them , are to blame . Glo . Let's see , let's see . Edm . I hope , for my brother's justification , he wrote this but ...
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... give all I possess to be certain of the truth . This is the mean- ing of the words to be in a due resolution . So , Othello , " To be once in doubt Is , once to be resolved . " M. MASON . [ 3 ] To convey , is to carry through ; in this ...
... give all I possess to be certain of the truth . This is the mean- ing of the words to be in a due resolution . So , Othello , " To be once in doubt Is , once to be resolved . " M. MASON . [ 3 ] To convey , is to carry through ; in this ...
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... his good characters were not to speak ill of judicial astrology , they could , on account of their religion give no reputation to it . But in order to expose our own behaviour , ) we make guilty of our ACT 1 . 28 KING LEAR .
... his good characters were not to speak ill of judicial astrology , they could , on account of their religion give no reputation to it . But in order to expose our own behaviour , ) we make guilty of our ACT 1 . 28 KING LEAR .
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... Give me an egg , nuncle , and I'll give thee two crowns . Lear . What two crowns shall they be ? Fool . Why , after I have cut the egg i'the middle , and eat up the meat , the two crowns of the egg . When thou clovest thy crown i'the ...
... Give me an egg , nuncle , and I'll give thee two crowns . Lear . What two crowns shall they be ? Fool . Why , after I have cut the egg i'the middle , and eat up the meat , the two crowns of the egg . When thou clovest thy crown i'the ...
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Common terms and phrases
art thou BENVOLIO better blood Brabantio CAPULET Cassio Cordelia Corn Cyprus daughter dead dear death Desdemona dost thou doth Duke Edmund Emil Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair Farewell father fear fool Fortinbras Gent gentleman give Gloster GONERIL Guil Hamlet hath hear heart heaven hither honest honour Horatio i'the Iago is't JOHNSON Juliet Kent king King Lear knave lady Laer Laertes Lear look lord madam MALONE Mantua marry matter means Mercutio Michael Cassio Moor night noble Nurse Ophelia Othello play poison'd POLONIUS poor Pr'ythee pray Queen Roderigo Romeo ROMEO AND JULIET SCENE Shakspeare soul speak STEEV STEEVENS sweet sword tell thee there's thine thing thou art thou hast to-night Tybalt VIII villain WARBURTON wilt word
Popular passages
Page 54 - 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 48 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this.
Page 24 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres; Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine...
Page 22 - So, oft it chances in particular men, That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth,— wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin,— By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man...
Page 27 - I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there...
Page 48 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Page 56 - 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 16 - My very noble and approv'd good masters, That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true ; true, I have married her : The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Page 55 - Stain my man's cheeks ! — No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things,— What they are, yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth.
Page 53 - 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. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.