The Poems of William ShakespearJ. W. Parker and son, 1855 - 252 pages |
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... present age demands . The Edition now proposed will be distinguished from all preceding Editions in many important respects . It will include the works of several Poets entirely omitted from previous Col- lections , especially those ...
... present age demands . The Edition now proposed will be distinguished from all preceding Editions in many important respects . It will include the works of several Poets entirely omitted from previous Col- lections , especially those ...
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... present a succinct account of English Poetry from the earliest times down to a period which will connect it with the Series of the Poets , through whose Lives the History of our Poetical Literature will be continued to the present time ...
... present a succinct account of English Poetry from the earliest times down to a period which will connect it with the Series of the Poets , through whose Lives the History of our Poetical Literature will be continued to the present time ...
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... present these facts in a connected form , without venturing into the more ambitious province of investigation and conjecture , already occupied by many zealous inquirers , is the sole object proposed to be attempted in the following ...
... present these facts in a connected form , without venturing into the more ambitious province of investigation and conjecture , already occupied by many zealous inquirers , is the sole object proposed to be attempted in the following ...
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... present sorrow seemeth chief , But none is best : then join they all together , Like many clouds consulting for foul weather . By this , far off she hears some huntsman holla ; A nurse's song ne'er pleased her babe so well : The dire ...
... present sorrow seemeth chief , But none is best : then join they all together , Like many clouds consulting for foul weather . By this , far off she hears some huntsman holla ; A nurse's song ne'er pleased her babe so well : The dire ...
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... present line , that the word fear was pronounced in the time of Shaks- peare as if it were written fare .'- MALONE . To draw a general con- clusion from a particular instance is illogical and unsafe under any circumstances ; but with ...
... present line , that the word fear was pronounced in the time of Shaks- peare as if it were written fare .'- MALONE . To draw a general con- clusion from a particular instance is illogical and unsafe under any circumstances ; but with ...
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bear beauty beauty's behold blood blushing boar breast breath Cheaper Edition cheeks Collatine colour dead dear death deeds desire doth England's Helicon face fair false fault fear fire flower Foolscap Octavo foul gentle give grace grief hand hast hate hath heart heaven Henry Henry VI honour JOHN WILLIAM DONALDSON kill kiss light lips live London looks Lord love's Lucrece lust Malone Memoir mind never night Notes o'er Octavo Oriel College pale passion plays poems poet POETICAL poor praise Priam proud quoth Rape of Lucrece Richard II Romeo and Juliet seems Shakspeare Shakspeare's shalt shame sighs sight Sonnets sorrow soul stain Stratford sweet Tarquin tears thee thine eye thing thou art thou dost thou wilt thought thyself time's tongue true truth unto Venus and Adonis weep William William Davenant wind word wound youth
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Page 205 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 180 - Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend, Nor services to do, till you require. Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour When you have bid your servant once adieu...
Page 168 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Page 192 - Though I, once gone, to all the world must die. The earth can yield me but a common grave. When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read. And tongues to be your being shall rehearse When all the breathers of this world are dead. You still shall live — such virtue hath my pen — Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.
Page 184 - When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay ; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
Page 168 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my State with kings.
Page 240 - Crabbed age and youth cannot live together : Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care ; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather ; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short ; 5 Youth is nimble, age is lame ; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold ; Youth is wild, and age is tame.
Page 163 - Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth; A man in hue, all "hues" in his controlling, Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth. And for a woman wert thou first created, Till Nature as she wrought thee fell a-doting And by addition me of thee defeated, By adding one thing to my purpose nothing. But since she prick'd thee out for women's pleasure, Mine be thy love, and thy love's use their treasure.
Page 204 - tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Page 180 - Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.