Romeo and Juliet ; Timon of Athens ; Julius Caesar ; Macbeth ; Hamlet ; King Lear ; OthelloJacob Tonson, within Grays-Inn Gate, next Grays-Inn Lane, 1709 |
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... Sleep- To Sleep , perchance to Dream ; ay , there's the rub For in that fleep of Death , what Dreams may come , When we have fhuffled off this mortal Coil , Must give us paufe . There's the respect That makes Calamity of fo long Life ...
... Sleep- To Sleep , perchance to Dream ; ay , there's the rub For in that fleep of Death , what Dreams may come , When we have fhuffled off this mortal Coil , Must give us paufe . There's the respect That makes Calamity of fo long Life ...
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againſt Alcibiades Amil anfwer Antony Apem Apemantus art thou Baft Banquo beft Blood Brutus Cafar Caffio dead Death Desdemona doft thou doth e'er Enter Exeunt Exit Eyes Fago faid Father fear feem feen felf felves fhall fhew fhould firft flain fleep fome Fool fpeak Friend ftand ftill fuch fure fweet give Glofter Hamlet hath hear Heart Heav'n himſelf honeft Honour Houſe i'th is't Jago Kent King Lady Laer Laertes Lear look Lord Love Macb Macbeth Macd Madam Mafter Mark Antony moft moſt muft Murther muſt Night noble Othello pleaſe Pleb pray prefent purpoſe Queen reafon reft Roffe Romeo SCENE ſhall ſpeak Sword tell thee thefe there's theſe thine thofe thoſe thou art Timon Titinius Tybalt uſe Villain whofe Wife
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Page 2108 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die ! like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume.
Page 2433 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 2266 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times.
Page 2551 - This to hear Would Desdemona seriously incline: But still the house affairs would draw her thence; Which ever as she could with haste despatch, She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: which I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Page 2272 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend...
Page 2523 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Page 2458 - tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all : Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows, what is't to leave betimes ?
Page 2297 - He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Page 2269 - Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me; But Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honourable man.
Page 2314 - Like the poor cat i" the adage ? Macb. Pr'ythee, peace : I dare do all that may become a man ; Who dares do more, is none. Lady M. What beast was't then, That made you break this enterprise to me ? When you durst do it, then you were a man ; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time, nor place, Did then adhere, and yet you would make both : They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you.