The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare

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C. Whittingham, 1823 - 666 pages
 

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Page 203 - fed not for my urging it ; Alone, it was the subject of my theme ¡ In company, I often glanced it ; Still did I tell him it was vile and bad. Abb. And thereof came it, that the man was mad : The venom clamour
Page 247 - For if of joy, being altogether wanting. It doth remember me the more of sorrow: Or if of grief, being altogether bad, It adds more sorrow to my want of joy : For what I have, I need not to repeat ; And what I want, it boots not to complain 1
Page 355 - For Margaret my queen, and Clifford too. Have chid me from the battle; swearing both, They prosper best of all when I am thence. 'Would I were dead ! if God's good will were so : For what is in this world, hut grief and woe
Page 62 - them on thee. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do; Not light them for ourselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike
Page 120 - music sound, while he doth make his choice; Then, if he lose, he makes a swan-like end, fading in music : that the comparison May stand more proper, my eye shall he the stream, And wat'ry death-bed for him
Page 200 - Thou drunken slave, I sent thee for a rope ; And told thee to what purpose, and what end. Ant. E. I will debate this matter at more leisure. And teach your ears to listen with more heed. To Adriana, villain, hie thee straight : Give her this key, and tell her, in the
Page 116 - it, but give me your blessing ; I am Launcelot, your boy that was, your son that is, your child that shall be. Laun. I know not what I shall think of that : but I am Lanncelot, the Jew's man ; and, I am
Page 38 - no such thing in me. Fal. What made me love thee? let that persuade thee, there's something extraordinary in thee. Come, I cannot cog, and say, thou art this and that, like a many of these lisping hawthorn buds, that come like women in
Page 295 - that, by a rule in nature, teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom. They have a king, and officers of sorts : Others, like merchants', venture trade abroad
Page 34 - do, to keep the terms of my honour precise. I, I, I myself sometimes, leaving the fear of heaven on the left hand, and hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to larch ; and yet you,

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