The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. OthelloC. Whittingham, 1826 |
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... King Richard III.:— ' And if King Edward be as true and just . ' 15 Nice here means silly , trifling , or wanton . See vol . iii . p . 393 , note 6. So in the last Act : - The letter was not nice , but full of charge Of dear import ...
... King Richard III.:— ' And if King Edward be as true and just . ' 15 Nice here means silly , trifling , or wanton . See vol . iii . p . 393 , note 6. So in the last Act : - The letter was not nice , but full of charge Of dear import ...
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... King John : — Rash , inconsiderate , firy voluntaries , With ladies ' faces and fierce dragons ' spleens . ' Again in King Henry VIII.:- ' You have angels ' faces , but Heaven knows your hearts . ' The line ' Did ever dragon , ' & c ...
... King John : — Rash , inconsiderate , firy voluntaries , With ladies ' faces and fierce dragons ' spleens . ' Again in King Henry VIII.:- ' You have angels ' faces , but Heaven knows your hearts . ' The line ' Did ever dragon , ' & c ...
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... King Henry VI . Part III.:- ' For many men that stumble at the threshold Are well foretold that danger lurks within . ' And in King Richard III . Hastings , going to execution , says : - Three times to - day my foot - cloth horse did ...
... King Henry VI . Part III.:- ' For many men that stumble at the threshold Are well foretold that danger lurks within . ' And in King Richard III . Hastings , going to execution , says : - Three times to - day my foot - cloth horse did ...
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... King Lear , a second time effected what , as far as I can recollect , no other writer has ever ventured to attempt - the exhibition on the same scene of real and fictitious madness in contrast with each other . In carrying his design ...
... King Lear , a second time effected what , as far as I can recollect , no other writer has ever ventured to attempt - the exhibition on the same scene of real and fictitious madness in contrast with each other . In carrying his design ...
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William Shakespeare. PERSONS REPRESENTED . CLAUDIUS , King of Denmark . HAMLET , Son to the former , and Nephew to the present King . POLONIUS , Lord Chamberlain . HORATIO , Friend to Hamlet . LAERTES , Son to Polonius . VOLTIMAND ...
William Shakespeare. PERSONS REPRESENTED . CLAUDIUS , King of Denmark . HAMLET , Son to the former , and Nephew to the present King . POLONIUS , Lord Chamberlain . HORATIO , Friend to Hamlet . LAERTES , Son to Polonius . VOLTIMAND ...
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Page 254 - 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 170 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on ; and yet, within a month — Let me not think on't. — Frailty, thy name is woman...
Page 330 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all.
Page 368 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: Which I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate.
Page 230 - 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 32 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid. Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut , Made by the joiner squirrel , or old grub , Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Page 50 - And yet I wish but for the thing I have: My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Page 366 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it : Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption thence, And portance in my...
Page 439 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Page 238 - 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.