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ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA Beaumont and Fletcher better bless Byron cold comes Congreve CONVERSATIONS CORIOLANUS Cowper Critic CYMBELINE Diary dinner DISCOVERIES dish doth drink Dryden EPIGRAM Essays fair friends gentle GENTLEMEN give green HAMLET hand hath head HENRY VI HENRY VIII hour II HENRY IV Jonson JULIUS CÆSAR KING JOHN ladies learned light live Lord Love's LABOUR's Lost Lowell MACBETH MEASURE MEASURE FOR MEASURE meet MERCHANT OF VENICE MERRY WIVES MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Milton nature never Night OTHELLO PARADISE Lost peace Pepys PERICLES play POLITE Pope praise Pray PROLOGUE RICHARD ROMEO AND JULIET Sheridan SHREW soul sweet Swift Tale TAMING taste TEMPEST thanks thee thing thou thought TIMON OF ATHENS TROILUS AND CRESSIDA unto wine WIVES OF WINDSOR Woman young
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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 188 - 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 186 - 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 160 - 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 156 - 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 187 - 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 143 - 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 167 - 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 164 - 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.