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... Winter's Tale , Act II , Sc . II . With great imagination , Proper to madmen , led his powers to death , And , winking , leap'd into destruction . Henry IV - 2d , Act . I , Sc . III . Oft the eye mistakes , the brain being troubled . To ...
... Winter's Tale , Act II , Sc . II . With great imagination , Proper to madmen , led his powers to death , And , winking , leap'd into destruction . Henry IV - 2d , Act . I , Sc . III . Oft the eye mistakes , the brain being troubled . To ...
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... Winter's Tale , Act I. , Sc . II . Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair , And make my seated heart knock at my ribs , Against the use of nature ? Macbeth , Act I. , Sc . III . Death from " broken heart , " caused by excessive grief ...
... Winter's Tale , Act I. , Sc . II . Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair , And make my seated heart knock at my ribs , Against the use of nature ? Macbeth , Act I. , Sc . III . Death from " broken heart , " caused by excessive grief ...
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... Winter's Tale , Act V. , Sc . II . the impatient wind blew half a gale : High dash'd the spray , the bows dipp'd in the sea , And seasick passengers turn'd somewhat pale . Byron - Don Juan , Canto X. , Verse LXIV . Now we've reached her ...
... Winter's Tale , Act V. , Sc . II . the impatient wind blew half a gale : High dash'd the spray , the bows dipp'd in the sea , And seasick passengers turn'd somewhat pale . Byron - Don Juan , Canto X. , Verse LXIV . Now we've reached her ...
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... Winter's Tale , Act I. , Sc . II . Troilus and Cressida , Act I. , Sc . III . What grief hath set the jaundice on your cheeks ? All seems infected that the infected spy , And all seems yellow to the jaundiced eye . The liver is the ...
... Winter's Tale , Act I. , Sc . II . Troilus and Cressida , Act I. , Sc . III . What grief hath set the jaundice on your cheeks ? All seems infected that the infected spy , And all seems yellow to the jaundiced eye . The liver is the ...
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... Winter's Tale , Act IV . , Sc . III . I must needs wake you : * * * * Alas ! my lady's dead ! * * * * * * * * * * Some aquavitæ , ho ! Romeo and Juliet , Act IV . , Sc . V. * * The second property of your excellent sherris is - the ...
... Winter's Tale , Act IV . , Sc . III . I must needs wake you : * * * * Alas ! my lady's dead ! * * * * * * * * * * Some aquavitæ , ho ! Romeo and Juliet , Act IV . , Sc . V. * * The second property of your excellent sherris is - the ...
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Page 33 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Page 72 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 10 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Page 46 - A made a finer end, and went away an it had been any christom child. A parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide. For after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Page 47 - Ha ! let me see her: — Out, alas ! she's cold ; Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her, like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
Page 14 - The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers, — quite, quite down ! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh...
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Page 43 - s by action dignified. Within the infant rind of this weak flower Poison hath residence and medicine power : For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part ; Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart.
Page 37 - Himself best knows : but strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures ; Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, Put on with holy prayers : and 'tis spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction.