The Works of Shakespeare: CymbelineMethuen, 1903 |
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... noble fortitude . Prospero is also wronged ; his enemies are in his power ; but he has employed his supernatural ministers to lead them to penitence rather than to bring them to punish- He has learned that ' the rarer action is in ...
... noble fortitude . Prospero is also wronged ; his enemies are in his power ; but he has employed his supernatural ministers to lead them to penitence rather than to bring them to punish- He has learned that ' the rarer action is in ...
Page xxv
... noble gifts , receives the entire wealth of the culprit Ambrogiuolo , and returns with her husband to Genoa . The naked traitor is smeared with honey , is impaled , and dies under the torture of a swarm of wasps and hornets . It will be ...
... noble gifts , receives the entire wealth of the culprit Ambrogiuolo , and returns with her husband to Genoa . The naked traitor is smeared with honey , is impaled , and dies under the torture of a swarm of wasps and hornets . It will be ...
Page xxix
... his poor squire Robin a noble gift of lands and his fair daughter Jehane . From the church - door after his marriage Robin sets forth on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Jakeme . A knight , by name Sir INTRODUCTION xxix.
... his poor squire Robin a noble gift of lands and his fair daughter Jehane . From the church - door after his marriage Robin sets forth on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Jakeme . A knight , by name Sir INTRODUCTION xxix.
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... noble heart , " i.e. wounded . 22. him .. compare ] him chosen for comparison with Posthumus . 24. speak him far ] Compare Beau- mont and Fletcher , The Wild - Goose Chase , I. i .: " He has borne himself a full and worthy gentleman ...
... noble heart , " i.e. wounded . 22. him .. compare ] him chosen for comparison with Posthumus . 24. speak him far ] Compare Beau- mont and Fletcher , The Wild - Goose Chase , I. i .: " He has borne himself a full and worthy gentleman ...
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... noble youth did dress themselves . " 50. to his mistress ] Commonly ex- plained " as to his mistress . " Vaughan takes it as depending on " what kind of man he is " ( line 54 ) , and would place " her own price . virtue " in a ...
... noble youth did dress themselves . " 50. to his mistress ] Commonly ex- plained " as to his mistress . " Vaughan takes it as depending on " what kind of man he is " ( line 54 ) , and would place " her own price . virtue " in a ...
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Page 145 - 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 138 - O, thou goddess, Thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st In these two princely boys ! They are as gentle As zephyrs, blowing below the violet. Not wagging his sweet head; and yet as rough, Their royal blood enchafed, as the rud'st wind, That by the top doth take the mountain pine, And make him stoop to the vale.
Page 91 - To work my mind, when body's work's expired. For then my thoughts, from far where I abide, Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee, And keep my drooping eyelids open wide, Looking on darkness which the blind do see; Save that my soul's imaginary sight Presents thy shadow to my sightless view, Which, like...
Page 57 - Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise: Arise, arise.
Page 97 - 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 142 - With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave. Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured harebell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweetened not thy breath.