Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical, 6. köideGeorge Daniel, John Cumberland J. Cumberland, 1826 |
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... tell thee what , Antonio , I love thee , and it is my love that speaks ; There are a sort of men , whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond ; And do a wilful stillness entertain , With purpose to be drest in an opinion Of ...
... tell thee what , Antonio , I love thee , and it is my love that speaks ; There are a sort of men , whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond ; And do a wilful stillness entertain , With purpose to be drest in an opinion Of ...
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... tell me now , what lady is this same , To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage , That you to - day promised to tell me of ? Bass . ' Tis not unknown to you , Antonio , How much I have disabled mine estate , By something showing a more ...
... tell me now , what lady is this same , To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage , That you to - day promised to tell me of ? Bass . ' Tis not unknown to you , Antonio , How much I have disabled mine estate , By something showing a more ...
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... tell ; I make it breed as fast . Ant . [ Apart to Bassanio , L. ] Mark you this , Bassanio , The devil can cite scripture for his purpose . An evil soul , producing holy witness , Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple ...
... tell ; I make it breed as fast . Ant . [ Apart to Bassanio , L. ] Mark you this , Bassanio , The devil can cite scripture for his purpose . An evil soul , producing holy witness , Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple ...
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... tell me this ; [ They advance . If he should break his day , what should I gain By the exaction of the forfeiture ? A pound of man's flesh , taken from a man , Is not so estimable , profitable neither , As flesh of muttons , beefs , or ...
... tell me this ; [ They advance . If he should break his day , what should I gain By the exaction of the forfeiture ? A pound of man's flesh , taken from a man , Is not so estimable , profitable neither , As flesh of muttons , beefs , or ...
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... tell me whether one Launcelot , that dwells with him , dwell with him , or no ? Laun . Talk you of young master Launcelot ? — [ Aside . ] Mark me now : now will I raise the waters : -Talk you of young master Launcelot ? Gob . No master ...
... tell me whether one Launcelot , that dwells with him , dwell with him , or no ? Laun . Talk you of young master Launcelot ? — [ Aside . ] Mark me now : now will I raise the waters : -Talk you of young master Launcelot ? Gob . No master ...
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Anne Appius arms Bass Bassanio Belin Belinda Bell Bellmont better Beverley Cæsar Caius Gracchus Cato Cato's Citizens Claud Claudius Cordelia daughter dear Decemvirs Dentatus Drusus ducats Duke Edgar Enter Exeunt Exit eyes Falstaff father fear Flac Ford give Glost GLOSTER gods Grac Gratiano hand hast hath hear heart heaven honest honour husband Icil Icilius JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES Juba Kent king KING LEAR Lady Restless Laun Lear Licin Licinia Lictors Livia look lord Lucius ma'am madam Marc Marcia Marcus master doctor Mistress never night Numitorius Opimius Porcius pray Roman Rome SCENE Sempronius Senate Servia Sext Shal Shylock Sir John Restless slave Slen soul speak sure sword Syph Syphax Tattle tears tell thee there's thing Vettius Virginia virtue What's wife word
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Page 54 - Nay, take my life and all, pardon not that : You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 20 - Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears you need my help : Go to, then ; you come to me, and you say ' Shylock, we would have moneys...
Page 36 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age. and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds.
Page 11 - In sooth, I know not why I am so sad : It wearies me ; you say it wearies you ; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn ; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me. That I have much ado to know myself.
Page 13 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Page 50 - I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news ; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses, and who wins ; who's in, who's out ; And take...
Page 1 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Page 36 - Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ! The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me ; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it.
Page 18 - Yes, to smell pork ; to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following ; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.
Page 14 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.