Memoirs of the Life of William Shakespeare: With an Essay Toward the Expression of His Genius, and an Account of the Rise and Progress of the English Drama |
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... Hath stay'd upon some favor that it loves ; Hath it not , boy ? Vio . * A little , by your favor . Of your complexion . Duke . What kind of woman is ' t ? Vio . Duke . She is not worth thee then . What years , i ' faith ? Vio . About ...
... Hath stay'd upon some favor that it loves ; Hath it not , boy ? Vio . * A little , by your favor . Of your complexion . Duke . What kind of woman is ' t ? Vio . Duke . She is not worth thee then . What years , i ' faith ? Vio . About ...
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... hath now in suit against your soul : Angels are made the jurors , who are witnesses Unto the oath you took ; and God himself , Maker of marriage , He that hath sealed the deed As a firm lease unto you during life , Sits now as Judge of ...
... hath now in suit against your soul : Angels are made the jurors , who are witnesses Unto the oath you took ; and God himself , Maker of marriage , He that hath sealed the deed As a firm lease unto you during life , Sits now as Judge of ...
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... hath this man all these things ? And they were offended in him . " That such was Shakespeare's lot we are not left to conjecture , hardly to infer . One of the play- wrights whom he found in high favor when he reached London , and with ...
... hath this man all these things ? And they were offended in him . " That such was Shakespeare's lot we are not left to conjecture , hardly to infer . One of the play- wrights whom he found in high favor when he reached London , and with ...
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... hath anie complainte in that kinde ever beene preferrde against them , or anie of them Wherefore , they trust most humblie in yor Lls consideracion of their former good behauiour being at all tymes readie and willing to yeelde obedi ...
... hath anie complainte in that kinde ever beene preferrde against them , or anie of them Wherefore , they trust most humblie in yor Lls consideracion of their former good behauiour being at all tymes readie and willing to yeelde obedi ...
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... hath infused light and life . " " Who , " asks Beau- mont , " lives on England's stage and knows him . not ? " Chapman calls him , in his Iliad , " the choice of all our country's noblest spirits " ; and Nash says , " Incomprehensible ...
... hath infused light and life . " " Who , " asks Beau- mont , " lives on England's stage and knows him . not ? " Chapman calls him , in his Iliad , " the choice of all our country's noblest spirits " ; and Nash says , " Incomprehensible ...
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Page 301 - fore the king, The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp That beats upon the high shore of this world, No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony, Not all these, laid in bed majestical, Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave; Who, with a body fill'd, and vacant mind, -Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread...
Page 36 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; "Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Page 300 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 153 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Page 87 - The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster...
Page 217 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Page 209 - Egyptian strainers and channels, and came to him not without some tincture of the learning, or some cast of the models of those before him. The poetry of Shakspeare was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator as an instrument of nature ; and it is not so just to say that he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him.
Page 166 - His pleasurable wit, and good nature, engaged him in the acquaintance, and entitled him to the friendship of the gentlemen of the neighbourhood.
Page 90 - Is not this the carpenter's son ? is not his mother called Mary ? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas ? And his sisters, are they not all with us ? Whence then hath this man all these things ? And they were offended in him.
Page 260 - And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state...