The Beauties of Shakspeare: Regularly Selected from Each Play ; with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper HeadsWalker, 1810 - 353 pages |
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... light To seek the beauteous eye of heav'n to garnish , Is wasteful and ridiculous excess . And wasteful and ridiculous indeed it would be , to say any thing in his praise , when pre- senting the world with such a collection of BEAUTIES ...
... light To seek the beauteous eye of heav'n to garnish , Is wasteful and ridiculous excess . And wasteful and ridiculous indeed it would be , to say any thing in his praise , when pre- senting the world with such a collection of BEAUTIES ...
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... light Must I be comforted , not in his sphere . The ambition in my love thus plagues itself : The hind that would be mated by the lion , Must die for love . ' Twas pretty , though a plague , To see him every hour ; to sit and draw His ...
... light Must I be comforted , not in his sphere . The ambition in my love thus plagues itself : The hind that would be mated by the lion , Must die for love . ' Twas pretty , though a plague , To see him every hour ; to sit and draw His ...
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... light . Thou say'st , his meat was sauc'd with thy upbraidings ; Unquiet meals make ill digestions , Thereof the raging fire of fever bred ; And what's a fever but a fit of madness ? Thou say'st , his sports were hinder'd by thy brawls ...
... light . Thou say'st , his meat was sauc'd with thy upbraidings ; Unquiet meals make ill digestions , Thereof the raging fire of fever bred ; And what's a fever but a fit of madness ? Thou say'st , his sports were hinder'd by thy brawls ...
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... lights , That give a name to every fixed star , Have no more profit of their shining nights , Than those that walk , and wot not what they are . Too much to know , is , to know nought but fame ; And every godfather can give a name ...
... lights , That give a name to every fixed star , Have no more profit of their shining nights , Than those that walk , and wot not what they are . Too much to know , is , to know nought but fame ; And every godfather can give a name ...
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... light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us , ' twere all alike As if we had them not . Spirits are not finely touch'd , ' But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence ...
... light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us , ' twere all alike As if we had them not . Spirits are not finely touch'd , ' But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence ...
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