Twelfth Night, Or What You WillClarendon Press, 1887 - 172 pages |
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Antonio bear-baiting beauty better called Cesario character Clown Collier's second folio Cymbeline delight Devil doth Duke Dyce edition English literature Enter Sir TOBY Exeunt Exit eyes FABIAN folly Fool galliard gentleman give hand hath heart HENRY N hold Hudson's humour Illyria intellectual is't Julius Cæsar keep knave knight lady language live lord madam madonna Malvolio MARIA matter meaning mind nature never niece noble old text Olivia original Orsino passion peace play Poet Poet's pr'ythee pray pupils rapier Re-enter SCENE Sebastian seems sense Shakespeare Sings Sir ANDREW AGUECHEEK Sir TOBY BELCH Sir Topas smile soul speak speech sweet taste tell thee there's thing third folio thou art thought tongue true Twelfth Night Viola virtue wisdom word yellow stockings youth
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Page 70 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it! My part of death, no one so true Did share it.
Page 30 - If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it ; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour.
Page 24 - O ! they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word ; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.
Page 3 - At our feast we had a play called ' Twelfth Night or What you Will, much like the Comedy of Errors or Menechmi in Plautus, but most like and near to that in Italian called Inganni.
Page 19 - Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on...
Page 88 - O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful In the contempt and anger of his lip ! A murd'rous guilt shows not itself more soon Than love that would seem hid : love's night is noon.
Page 61 - O, mistress mine, where are you roaming? O stay and hear ; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low : Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers' meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.
Page 53 - Holla your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out, Olivia ! O, you should not rest Between the elements of air and earth, But you should pity me.
Page 15 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.