The Dramatic Writings of Will. Shakespeare: With Introductory Prefaces to Each Play ; Printed Complete from the Best Editions, Volume 6R. Morison Junr., 1798 |
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... should feem from this laft memorandum that Milton dilliked the licence that his predeceffor ha taken in comprehending a history of such length within the fhort compass of a play , and would have now writ ten the whole on the plan of the ...
... should feem from this laft memorandum that Milton dilliked the licence that his predeceffor ha taken in comprehending a history of such length within the fhort compass of a play , and would have now writ ten the whole on the plan of the ...
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... should he look , That feems to speak things ftrange . Roffe . God fave the king ! King . Whence cam'ft thou , worthy thane ? Roffe . From Fife , great king , Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky , And fan our people cold . Norway ...
... should he look , That feems to speak things ftrange . Roffe . God fave the king ! King . Whence cam'ft thou , worthy thane ? Roffe . From Fife , great king , Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky , And fan our people cold . Norway ...
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... should be thine , or his : Silenc'd with that , In viewing o'er the reft o ' the self - fame day , He finds thee in the ftout Norweyan ranks , Nothing afraid of what thyfelf diaft make , Strange images of death . As thick as tale , Came ...
... should be thine , or his : Silenc'd with that , In viewing o'er the reft o ' the self - fame day , He finds thee in the ftout Norweyan ranks , Nothing afraid of what thyfelf diaft make , Strange images of death . As thick as tale , Came ...
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... should , by doing ev'ry thing Safe toward your love and honour . King . Welcome hither : I have begun to plant thee , and will labour To make thee full of growing . - Noble Banquo , That haft no lefs deferv'd , nor must be known No lefs ...
... should , by doing ev'ry thing Safe toward your love and honour . King . Welcome hither : I have begun to plant thee , and will labour To make thee full of growing . - Noble Banquo , That haft no lefs deferv'd , nor must be known No lefs ...
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... should be undone . Hie thee hither , That I may pour my fpirits in thine ear , And chaflife with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round Which fate and metaphyfical aid doth feem To have thee crown'd withal ...
... should be undone . Hie thee hither , That I may pour my fpirits in thine ear , And chaflife with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round Which fate and metaphyfical aid doth feem To have thee crown'd withal ...
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Page 68 - This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered...
Page 18 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: — I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not , fatal vision , sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Page 6 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the...
Page 25 - Dear Duff, I pr'ythee, contradict thyself, And say, it is not so. Re-enter MACBETH and LENOX. Macb. Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality : All is but toys : renown, and grace, is dead ; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
Page 38 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 66 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 9 - For in my way it lies. Stars hide your fires ! Let not light see my black and deep desires : The eye wink at the hand ! yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 21 - Infirm of purpose ! Give me the daggers : the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures : 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil.
Page 66 - By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost ; It yearns me not if men my garments wear ; Such outward things dwell not in my desires : But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
Page 10 - It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way : thou wouldst be great ; Art not without ambition ; but without The illness should attend it : what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily ; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win...