The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 1G. Bell, 1879 |
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... fear of the curse abovesaid , dare touch his gravestone , though his wife and daughters did earnestly desire to be laid in the same grave with him . " There is little doubt that from this old clerk , directly or indirectly , came ...
... fear of the curse abovesaid , dare touch his gravestone , though his wife and daughters did earnestly desire to be laid in the same grave with him . " There is little doubt that from this old clerk , directly or indirectly , came ...
Page xxviii
... fear of process for debt ; and it is not till 1595 , only two years before his son's purchase of New Place , that he ceases to appear as a party in petty actions , which bear at least the colour of pertinacity . In 1582 William ...
... fear of process for debt ; and it is not till 1595 , only two years before his son's purchase of New Place , that he ceases to appear as a party in petty actions , which bear at least the colour of pertinacity . In 1582 William ...
Page xlvii
... fear lest he be moved , or some of his apes hired , to make a play of you , and then is your credit quite undone for ever and ever . Such is the public reputation of their plays . He must be needs discouraged whom they decipher . Better ...
... fear lest he be moved , or some of his apes hired , to make a play of you , and then is your credit quite undone for ever and ever . Such is the public reputation of their plays . He must be needs discouraged whom they decipher . Better ...
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... fear it yield me still so bad a harvest . I leave it to your honourable survey and your honour to your heart's content ; which I wish may always answer your own wish and the world's hopeful expectation . " Your honour's in all duty ...
... fear it yield me still so bad a harvest . I leave it to your honourable survey and your honour to your heart's content ; which I wish may always answer your own wish and the world's hopeful expectation . " Your honour's in all duty ...
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... fear but with all hearty thankfulness I will hold my time , and content your friend , and if we bargain farther , you shall be the paymaster yourself . My time bids me hasten to an end , and so I commit this to your care , and hope of ...
... fear but with all hearty thankfulness I will hold my time , and content your friend , and if we bargain farther , you shall be the paymaster yourself . My time bids me hasten to an end , and so I commit this to your care , and hope of ...
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Page 60 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.
Page 82 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 45 - A strange fish ! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make a man : any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 367 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain. seal'd in vain.
Page 24 - Thou strok'dst me, and mad'st much of me : would'st give me Water with berries in't ; and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night : and then I lov'd thee, And show'd thee all the qualities o...
Page cix - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Page 81 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Page 294 - Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
Page xli - 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 cvii - Above th' ill fortune of them or the need. I, therefore, will begin. Soul of the Age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise. I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie...