The Plays of William Shakspeare: Sketch of the life of Shakspeare. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth-night ; Measure for measureJ. Nichols, 1811 |
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... leave his family and business , and take shelter in London . He was twenty - two years of age when he ar- rived in London , and is said to have made his first acquaintance in the play - house . Here his necessities obliged him to accept ...
... leave his family and business , and take shelter in London . He was twenty - two years of age when he ar- rived in London , and is said to have made his first acquaintance in the play - house . Here his necessities obliged him to accept ...
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... leave of him . [ Exit . [ Exit . Gon . Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for au acre of barren ground ; long heath , brown furze , any thing : the wills above be done ! but I would fain die a dry death . [ Exit . • Incontinent ...
... leave of him . [ Exit . [ Exit . Gon . Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for au acre of barren ground ; long heath , brown furze , any thing : the wills above be done ! but I would fain die a dry death . [ Exit . • Incontinent ...
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... leave him ; I have no long spoon . Trin . Stephano ! -if thou beest Stephano , touch me , and speak to me ; for I am Trinculo ; -be not afeard , thy good friend Trinculo . Ste . If thou beest Trinculo , come forth ; I'll pull thee by ...
... leave him ; I have no long spoon . Trin . Stephano ! -if thou beest Stephano , touch me , and speak to me ; for I am Trinculo ; -be not afeard , thy good friend Trinculo . Ste . If thou beest Trinculo , come forth ; I'll pull thee by ...
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... leave them , whilst I visit Young Ferdinand ( whom they suppose is drown'd ) , And his and my loved darling . [ Exit Prospero from above . Gon . I ' the name of something holy , sir , why stand you In this strange stare ? Alon . O , it ...
... leave them , whilst I visit Young Ferdinand ( whom they suppose is drown'd ) , And his and my loved darling . [ Exit Prospero from above . Gon . I ' the name of something holy , sir , why stand you In this strange stare ? Alon . O , it ...
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... leave these ; and with her sovereign grace , Here on this grass - plot , in this very place , To come and sport : her peacocks fly amain ; Approach , rich Ceres , her to entertain . • Surplus , + Command . Enter Ceres . Cer . Hail ...
... leave these ; and with her sovereign grace , Here on this grass - plot , in this very place , To come and sport : her peacocks fly amain ; Approach , rich Ceres , her to entertain . • Surplus , + Command . Enter Ceres . Cer . Hail ...
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Page 28 - All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 270 - tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure : In delay there lies no plenty, Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure. Sir And. A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight. Sir To. A contagious breath. Sir And. Very sweet and contagious, i
Page 17 - em. Caliban. I must eat my dinner. This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, Which thou tak'st from me. When thou earnest first, Thou strok'dst me and mad'st much of me, wouldst give me Water with berries in't, and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night : and then I lov'd thee, And show'd thee all the qualities o' th' isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile.
Page 328 - Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate, For the rain it raineth every day. But when I came, alas ! to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day...
Page 372 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling...
Page 27 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Page 277 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it ! My part of death, no one so true Did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strown ; Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown : A thousand thousand sighs to save, Lay me, O, where Sad true lover never find my grave, To weep there ! Duke.
Page 18 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.