The Works of Shakespeare: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions: Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles. King LearEstes and Lauriat, 1883 - English drama |
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... course , to that piece of dull impertinence , the vision of Posthumus in prison , his dialogue with the Jailers , and the absurd " label " found on his bosom after the vision disappeared . For nothing can well be plainer than that this ...
... course , to that piece of dull impertinence , the vision of Posthumus in prison , his dialogue with the Jailers , and the absurd " label " found on his bosom after the vision disappeared . For nothing can well be plainer than that this ...
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... course of villainy ; whereupon Bernabo owned that he had caused his wife to be murdered , in the belief of her guilt with Ambrogiulo . " You see , " said she to the Sultan , " how little cause the lady had to be proud either of her ...
... course of villainy ; whereupon Bernabo owned that he had caused his wife to be murdered , in the belief of her guilt with Ambrogiulo . " You see , " said she to the Sultan , " how little cause the lady had to be proud either of her ...
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... course replete with improbable incidents ; yet the improbability is everywhere softened by distance , and even made grateful by the romantic sweetness , the sober wisdom , and the pathetic tenderness , that still spring up fresh and ...
... course replete with improbable incidents ; yet the improbability is everywhere softened by distance , and even made grateful by the romantic sweetness , the sober wisdom , and the pathetic tenderness , that still spring up fresh and ...
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... course the leading purpose of the play is to be sought for in the character of Imogen . Around this , however , are ... courses ; the Queen in her intriguing malignity , the King in his self - blinded dotage , Cloten in urging on his ...
... course the leading purpose of the play is to be sought for in the character of Imogen . Around this , however , are ... courses ; the Queen in her intriguing malignity , the King in his self - blinded dotage , Cloten in urging on his ...
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... course just the last man that any lady of sense or sensibility could be brought to endure . His calling Imogen imperceiverant thing , " for not appreciating his superiority to Posthumus in the qualities that invite a lady's respect and ...
... course just the last man that any lady of sense or sensibility could be brought to endure . His calling Imogen imperceiverant thing , " for not appreciating his superiority to Posthumus in the qualities that invite a lady's respect and ...
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Page 562 - I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; — And take...
Page 488 - If it be you that stir these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely ; touch me with noble anger ! O, let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks! — No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things, — What they are, yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth.
Page 556 - Lear. Be your tears wet ? yes, faith. I pray, weep not : If you have poison for me, I will drink it. I know you do not love me ; for your sisters Have, as I do remember, done me wrong : You have some cause, they have not. Cor. No cause, no cause.
Page 555 - How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong to take me out o' the grave: — Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Page 434 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to...
Page 556 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Page 540 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles : half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head : The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice ; and yond...
Page 90 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Page 124 - Fear no more the frown o' the great: Thou art past the tyrant's stroke. Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Page 493 - Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks ! rage ! blow ! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks ! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers of oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head ! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world ! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man ! 9 Fool.