Measure for measure. Comedy of errorsPrinted for, and under the direction of, John Bell, 1788 |
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Page iii
... plays more dark- ened than this by the peculiarities of its author , and the unskilfulness of its editors , by ... play , nor is ever mentioned but by his title , why should he be called Vincentio among the persons , but because ...
... plays more dark- ened than this by the peculiarities of its author , and the unskilfulness of its editors , by ... play , nor is ever mentioned but by his title , why should he be called Vincentio among the persons , but because ...
Page iv
... play the light or comick part is very natural and pleasing , but the grave scenes , if a few passages be excepted , have more labour than elegance . The plot is rather intricate than artful . The time of the action is indefinite ; some ...
... play the light or comick part is very natural and pleasing , but the grave scenes , if a few passages be excepted , have more labour than elegance . The plot is rather intricate than artful . The time of the action is indefinite ; some ...
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... play , which contains a mixture of comic scenes , between a Bawd , a Pimp , Felons , & c . together with some serious situa- tions which are not described . STEEVENS . Dramatis Personae . MEN . VINCENTIO , Duke of Vienna . ANGELO , Lord ...
... play , which contains a mixture of comic scenes , between a Bawd , a Pimp , Felons , & c . together with some serious situa- tions which are not described . STEEVENS . Dramatis Personae . MEN . VINCENTIO , Duke of Vienna . ANGELO , Lord ...
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... play with reason and discourse , And well she can persuade . Lucio . I pray , she may : as well for the encourage- ment of the like , " which else would stand under " grievous imposition ; " as for the enjoying of thy life , who I would ...
... play with reason and discourse , And well she can persuade . Lucio . I pray , she may : as well for the encourage- ment of the like , " which else would stand under " grievous imposition ; " as for the enjoying of thy life , who I would ...
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... play with all virgins so : I hold you as a thing ensky'd , and sainted : " By your renouncement , an immortal spirit ; " And to be talked with in sincerity , As with a saint . " Isab . You do blaspheme the good , in mocking me . " Lucio ...
... play with all virgins so : I hold you as a thing ensky'd , and sainted : " By your renouncement , an immortal spirit ; " And to be talked with in sincerity , As with a saint . " Isab . You do blaspheme the good , in mocking me . " Lucio ...
Common terms and phrases
Abhor ABHORSON Ægeon Ageon Antipholis Barnardine Bawd bear believe brother called Cassandra chain Claud Claudio Clown Comedy of Errors Coriolanus death defeatures dost thou doth Dromio Duke duke's Enter Ephesus Escal Exeunt Exit false father faults folio fool friar Gent George Whetstone give grace Hanmer hath hear heaven HENLEY hither honour husband Isab Isabel Isabella JOHNSON Juliet justice king lapwing leiger look lord Angelo Lucio Macbeth maid MALONE Mariana master Froth means Measure for Measure mercy merry mistress never offence officer Othello pardon passage play Pompey poor pray prison Promos Prov Provost SCENE seems sense Shakspere Shakspere's shame shew Sir Thomas Hanmer sister soul speak STEEVENS strange Syracuse tell thee THEOBALD There's thief thing thou art thou hast to-morrow tongue true villain WARBURTON what's wife woman word
Popular passages
Page 55 - Claudio ; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 15 - From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty : As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint : Our natures do pursue, (Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,) A thirsty evil ; and when we drink, we die.
Page 39 - But man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep ; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Page 8 - Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 40 - That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your bosom ; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know That 's like my brother's fault : if it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his. Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life.
Page 112 - I'll speak all. They say, best men are moulded out of faults ; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad : so may my husband.
Page 37 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Page 20 - Stands at a guard 4 with envy ; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone : Hence shall we see, If power change purpose, what our seemers be.
Page 37 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 24 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.