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... ROMEO AND JULIET , iii , 4 . We ' ll have some half a dozen friends And there an end . ROMEO AND JULIET , iii , 4 . Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast . The dinner attends you , sir , COMEDY OF ERRORS , iii , 1 . MERRY ...
... ROMEO AND JULIET , iii , 4 . We ' ll have some half a dozen friends And there an end . ROMEO AND JULIET , iii , 4 . Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast . The dinner attends you , sir , COMEDY OF ERRORS , iii , 1 . MERRY ...
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... ROMEO AND JULIET , i , 5 . Will now deny to dance ? She that makes dainty , She , I'll swear , hath corns . What a sweep of vanity comes this way ! They dance ! TIMON OF ATHENS , i , 1 . She sings like one immortal , and she dances As ...
... ROMEO AND JULIET , i , 5 . Will now deny to dance ? She that makes dainty , She , I'll swear , hath corns . What a sweep of vanity comes this way ! They dance ! TIMON OF ATHENS , i , 1 . She sings like one immortal , and she dances As ...
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... ROMEO AND JULIET , i , 1 . There are certain ladies most desirous of admit- tance . Ladies ! TIMON OF ATHENS , i , 2 . Let's go dress him like the witch of Brentford . MERRY WIVES of Windsor , iv , 2 . Some of all professions that go ...
... ROMEO AND JULIET , i , 1 . There are certain ladies most desirous of admit- tance . Ladies ! TIMON OF ATHENS , i , 2 . Let's go dress him like the witch of Brentford . MERRY WIVES of Windsor , iv , 2 . Some of all professions that go ...
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... ROMEO AND JULIET , i , 2 . Have broiled bones and kidneys brought in on a tray . Barham , INGOLDSBY LEGENDS ( BLACK MOUSQUETAIRE ) . We'll have a dozen of bones well charg'd with W. Cartwright , THE ORDINARY , ii , 1 . marrow . Better ...
... ROMEO AND JULIET , i , 2 . Have broiled bones and kidneys brought in on a tray . Barham , INGOLDSBY LEGENDS ( BLACK MOUSQUETAIRE ) . We'll have a dozen of bones well charg'd with W. Cartwright , THE ORDINARY , ii , 1 . marrow . Better ...
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... ROMEO AND JUliet , ii , 4 . You do yet taste some subtleties . TEMPEST , V , I. An exquisite and poignant sauce , For which I'll say unto my cook , " There ' s gold , Go forth , and be a knight . " B. Jonson , THE ALCHEMIST , ii . That ...
... ROMEO AND JUliet , ii , 4 . You do yet taste some subtleties . TEMPEST , V , I. An exquisite and poignant sauce , For which I'll say unto my cook , " There ' s gold , Go forth , and be a knight . " B. Jonson , THE ALCHEMIST , ii . That ...
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ALCHEMIST ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA Beaumont and Fletcher BIGLOW PAPERS bless Byron Cartwright COMEDY OF ERRORS Congreve CORIOLANUS Cowley Cowper CYMBELINE Dekker and Ford DIARY Dinner Menus dish DON JUAN doth drink Dryden DUNCIAD EPILOGUE FABLE FOR CRITICS feast friends gentle GENTLEMEN OF VERONA give HAMLET hath HENRY VI HENRY VIII honour Jonson JULIUS CÆSAR KING JOHN ladies LEAR Lord LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST Lowell MACBETH MEASURE FOR MEASURE Men's Dinner MERCHANT OF VENICE MERRY WIVES MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Milton MORAL ESSAYS never O. W. Holmes OTHELLO PARADISE LOST Pepys PERICLES POLITE CONVERSATIONS Pope praise pray PROLOGUE PSALMS Randolph RICHARD ROMEO AND JULIET SATIRES Shackerley Marmion Shakspere Sheridan SHREW soul sweet Swift TAMING taste TEMPEST Tennyson thee There's thing thou TIMON OF ATHENS TITUS ANDRONICUS tobacco TROILUS AND CRESSIDA TWELFTH NIGHT unto wine WINTER'S TALE WIVES OF WINDSOR WOMAN HATER
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Page 22 - 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 190 - This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
Page 188 - Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts. O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness : fear before him, all the earth.
Page 162 - Paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning — neither would it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments : — But, Sir Anthony, I would send her, at nine years old, to a boardingschool, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice. Then, sir, she should have a supercilious knowledge in accounts ; — and as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries...
Page 18 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of link-ed sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running ; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony : That Orpheus...
Page 158 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Page 189 - When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me : for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
Page 145 - For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Page 169 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Page 166 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.