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Much ado about nothing. The merchant of Venice. Love's labour's lost. As you ... - Page 283
by William Shakespeare - 1762
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 322 pages
...instead of not: " Cor. Ay, but mine own desire. " 1 (St. How ! not your own desire." Malone. D a Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;* And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,* Sermons in stones, and good in every thing....
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

1806 - 408 pages
...persuade me what I am. Sweet are the uses of Adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head : And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing....
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 340 pages
...Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,] The old copy reads— " not the penalty—." Steevens. Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;* And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, 3 Sermons in stones, and good in every...
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The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1807 - 372 pages
...persuade me what I am. Sweet are the uses of adversity ; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing....
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The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the ...

Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 454 pages
...persuade me what I am. Sweet are the uses of adversity ; Which, like the toad, ugly, and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head : And this our life, exempt from public haunt, I'i'iids tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every...
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Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 pages
...Like It, ii. 1 : " Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing."...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...persuade me what 1 am. Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head : And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing....
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The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1818 - 376 pages
...persuade me what I am. Sweet are the uses of adversity ; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing....
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The Plays of Shakspeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...persuade me what I am. Sweet are the uses of adversity ; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life, exempt from public haunt. Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing....
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Poems Divine and Moral: Many of Them Now First Published

John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 pages
...persuade me what I am. Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head : And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing....
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