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Page 108
... berril , much used at that time by cheats and fortune - tellers to WARBURTON . predict by . Line 426.shew some pity . Ang . I shew it most of all , when I shew justice ; For then I pity those I do not know , 108 [ ACT II . ΑΝΝΟΤΑΤIONS ON.
... berril , much used at that time by cheats and fortune - tellers to WARBURTON . predict by . Line 426.shew some pity . Ang . I shew it most of all , when I shew justice ; For then I pity those I do not know , 108 [ ACT II . ΑΝΝΟΤΑΤIONS ON.
Page 129
... fortune , which was promised proportionate to mine , fell short of the composition , that is , contract or bargain . JOHNSON . Line 277. These poor informal women ] Informal signifies out of their senses . In The Comedy of Errors , we ...
... fortune , which was promised proportionate to mine , fell short of the composition , that is , contract or bargain . JOHNSON . Line 277. These poor informal women ] Informal signifies out of their senses . In The Comedy of Errors , we ...
Page 176
... fortune than we have deserved . STEEVENS . Line 470. Νow to ' scape the serpent's tongue . ] That is , if we JOHNSON . be dismissed without hisses . Line 474. Give me your hands . ] That is , Clap your hands . Give us your applause ...
... fortune than we have deserved . STEEVENS . Line 470. Νow to ' scape the serpent's tongue . ] That is , if we JOHNSON . be dismissed without hisses . Line 474. Give me your hands . ] That is , Clap your hands . Give us your applause ...
Page 189
... fortunes . For portents were not only thought to forebode , but to influence . WARBURTON . Line 247. None are so , & c . ] These are observations worthy of a man who has surveyed human nature with the closest atten- tion . JOHNSON ...
... fortunes . For portents were not only thought to forebode , but to influence . WARBURTON . Line 247. None are so , & c . ] These are observations worthy of a man who has surveyed human nature with the closest atten- tion . JOHNSON ...
Page 192
... fortunes . One of the legal tests of a natural is to try whether he can number . JOHNSON . Line 799. That sport best pleases , that doth least know how : Where zeal strives to content , and the contents Die in the zeal of them which it ...
... fortunes . One of the legal tests of a natural is to try whether he can number . JOHNSON . Line 799. That sport best pleases , that doth least know how : Where zeal strives to content , and the contents Die in the zeal of them which it ...
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Page 52 - With coral clasps and amber studs — And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
Page 53 - The rest complains of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward Winter reckoning yields: A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither...
Page 274 - Thus thou must do, if thou have it'; And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear, And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
Page 279 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace. With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Page 667 - That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Page 94 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased ; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 421 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds: I will be like the most High.
Page 287 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and howlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. ALL. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. THIRD WITCH. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witches...
Page 73 - twill endure wind and weather. Vio. 'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on : Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive, If you will lead these graces to the grave, And leave the world no copy.