The Shakespeare Water-cureHarold Roorbach, Publisher, successor to Roorbach, 1883 - 40 pages |
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15 CENTS 9 Murray St apple-tree APRIL FOOLS banjo Bassanio beans best parting bow Cæsar CHORUS comedietta comedy in three comedy-drama dinner dost doth drama in three ducats Eight male entrance left entrance right Exit Exit GHOST farce father fifty minutes five female characters Five male four female characters Four male friends fuddy George Washington GHOST give gold gown Ham dear Ham says Ham's Hamish HAMLET HAROLD ROORBACH hath HYDROPATHY Juliet juvenile lady lady comedian LADY MACBETH little hatchet Luddy Macy's male characters married Montague murder Ophelia Othello play Portia postpaid receipt Romeo Romeo Montague Scene Seven male SHAKESPEARE WATER-Cure Shylock Sings skull Skull and bones sweet SYNOPSIS OF INCIDENTS TABLEAU thee thing thirty minutes thou three acts three female characters Three male told twas Uncle villain wedding whack-fa-luddy wretched
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Page 22 - Let me not burst in ignorance ! but tell, Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements ! why the sepulchre. Wherein we saw thee quietly in-urn'd. Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws, To cast thee up again...
Page 25 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 12 - O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page 14 - To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Page 27 - That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours...
Page 22 - Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Page 27 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind Which I respect not.
Page 26 - Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
Page 21 - Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action...
Page 13 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.