The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 1G. Bell, 1879 |
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Page lix
... mistress's favour , Burleigh , died the same year , —is the date of the earliest play of Ben Jonson , then in his twenty - fourth year , Every Man in his Humour . Rowe relates , " that Shakespeare's acquaintance with Ben Jonson began ...
... mistress's favour , Burleigh , died the same year , —is the date of the earliest play of Ben Jonson , then in his twenty - fourth year , Every Man in his Humour . Rowe relates , " that Shakespeare's acquaintance with Ben Jonson began ...
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... mistress by a lover , who speaks of himself as old , " as 66 past the best . " The other alludes to a friend , and also a mistress , -a fair youth , a dark woman , and expresses mistrust of a design of the latter to seduce the friend ...
... mistress by a lover , who speaks of himself as old , " as 66 past the best . " The other alludes to a friend , and also a mistress , -a fair youth , a dark woman , and expresses mistrust of a design of the latter to seduce the friend ...
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... mistress , and forgive him in the same breath . Had we a full biography of the poet with all its surroundings , we might explain much that is obscure in these remarkable effusions , but by no process that I can conceive , may we hope to ...
... mistress , and forgive him in the same breath . Had we a full biography of the poet with all its surroundings , we might explain much that is obscure in these remarkable effusions , but by no process that I can conceive , may we hope to ...
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... Mistress Hall ; Something of Shakespeare was in that , but this Wholly of Him with whom she's now in bliss . " Devotional , however , was a wide term , and embraces all moods , from horror to beatitude , and no inference lies om the ...
... Mistress Hall ; Something of Shakespeare was in that , but this Wholly of Him with whom she's now in bliss . " Devotional , however , was a wide term , and embraces all moods , from horror to beatitude , and no inference lies om the ...
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... observed that Dante makes Cain the man in the moon with his bundle of sticks ; or in other words describes the moon by the periphrasis " Caino e le spine . " my mistress shewed me thee , and thy dog , 48 ACT II . TEMPEST .
... observed that Dante makes Cain the man in the moon with his bundle of sticks ; or in other words describes the moon by the periphrasis " Caino e le spine . " my mistress shewed me thee , and thy dog , 48 ACT II . TEMPEST .
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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...