The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 7F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... LEON . I learn in this letter , that Don Pedro * of Arragon comes this night to Messina . MESS . He is very near by this ; he was not three leagues off when I left him . LEON . How many gentlemen have you lost in this action ? MESS ...
... LEON . I learn in this letter , that Don Pedro * of Arragon comes this night to Messina . MESS . He is very near by this ; he was not three leagues off when I left him . LEON . How many gentlemen have you lost in this action ? MESS ...
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... LEON . He hath an uncle here in Messina will be very much glad of it . MESS . I have already delivered him letters , and there appears much joy in him ; even so much , that joy could not show itself modest enough , without a badge of ...
... LEON . He hath an uncle here in Messina will be very much glad of it . MESS . I have already delivered him letters , and there appears much joy in him ; even so much , that joy could not show itself modest enough , without a badge of ...
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... LEON . What is he that you ask for , niece ? HERO . My cousin means signior Benedick of Padua . MESS . O , he is returned ; and as pleasant as ever he was . BEAT . He set up his bills here in Messina , and 5- no faces TRUER ] That is ...
... LEON . What is he that you ask for , niece ? HERO . My cousin means signior Benedick of Padua . MESS . O , he is returned ; and as pleasant as ever he was . BEAT . He set up his bills here in Messina , and 5- no faces TRUER ] That is ...
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... LEON . Faith , niece , you tax signior Benedick too much ; but he'll be meet with you , I doubt it not . MESS . He hath done good service , lady , in these wars . BEAT . You had musty victual , and he hath holp to eat it : he is a very ...
... LEON . Faith , niece , you tax signior Benedick too much ; but he'll be meet with you , I doubt it not . MESS . He hath done good service , lady , in these wars . BEAT . You had musty victual , and he hath holp to eat it : he is a very ...
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... LEON . You must not , sir , mistake my niece : there is a kind of merry war betwixt signior Bene- dick and her they never meet , but there is a skir- mish of wit between them . 6 BEAT . Alas , he gets nothing by that . In our last ...
... LEON . You must not , sir , mistake my niece : there is a kind of merry war betwixt signior Bene- dick and her they never meet , but there is a skir- mish of wit between them . 6 BEAT . Alas , he gets nothing by that . In our last ...
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Page 475 - No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither •with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it : As thus ; Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam : And why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel...
Page 335 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue ; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do ', I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 206 - God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Page 315 - A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward? Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face? Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs?
Page 421 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Page 504 - Hamlet wrong'd Laertes ? Never Hamlet : If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away, And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes, Then Hamlet does it not ; Hamlet denies it. Who does it then ? His madness. If't be so, Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd ; His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy.
Page 372 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Page 235 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Page 284 - tis none to you ; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so : to me it is a prison.
Page 420 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.