The Old Dramatists: Conjectural ReadingsThacker, Spink, 1898 - 215 pages |
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... mothers find you , read your story , And sow their barren curses on your beauty ; Till those that have enjoy'd their loves despise you , Till virgins pray against you , old age find you , And , even as wasted coals glow in their dying ...
... mothers find you , read your story , And sow their barren curses on your beauty ; Till those that have enjoy'd their loves despise you , Till virgins pray against you , old age find you , And , even as wasted coals glow in their dying ...
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... mother , in Walton's Life , quoted by Greenhill , note to Religio Medici , p . 26y , I have always ob- served the thread of life to be like other threads or skeins of silk , full of snarles and incumbrances . " All's Well , iv . 4. 30 ...
... mother , in Walton's Life , quoted by Greenhill , note to Religio Medici , p . 26y , I have always ob- served the thread of life to be like other threads or skeins of silk , full of snarles and incumbrances . " All's Well , iv . 4. 30 ...
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... mother's womb , Full of unpleasing blots and sightless stains , Lame , foolish , crooked , swart , prodigious , Patch'd with foul moles and eye - offending marks , I would not care , I then would be content . ' Throughout the passage ...
... mother's womb , Full of unpleasing blots and sightless stains , Lame , foolish , crooked , swart , prodigious , Patch'd with foul moles and eye - offending marks , I would not care , I then would be content . ' Throughout the passage ...
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... mothers , maids , nor babes , Nor sight of priests in holy vestments bleeding , Small pierce a jot . ' If in line 116 Johnson's ' window - bars , ' for ' window Barne ' of the folios , is to be preferred to Theobald's window - lawn ...
... mothers , maids , nor babes , Nor sight of priests in holy vestments bleeding , Small pierce a jot . ' If in line 116 Johnson's ' window - bars , ' for ' window Barne ' of the folios , is to be preferred to Theobald's window - lawn ...
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... mothers , maids , etc. Timon of Athens , iv . 3. 134 : - ' Enough to make a whore forswear her trade , And to make whores , a bawd . ' I fancy to make ' was caught from the line above , and that for it we should read forsake . Timon of ...
... mothers , maids , etc. Timon of Athens , iv . 3. 134 : - ' Enough to make a whore forswear her trade , And to make whores , a bawd . ' I fancy to make ' was caught from the line above , and that for it we should read forsake . Timon of ...
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Page 9 - Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows ! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy : the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe : Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead : Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong (Between whose endless jar justice resides), Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Page 34 - That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat. Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery. That aptly is put on.
Page 70 - Tis all mine own : your marriage was my theft ; For I espoused your dowry, and I have it : I did not purpose to have added murder. The devil did not prompt me : till this minute,7 You might have safe return'd ; now you cannot. You have dogg'd your own death.
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Page 55 - FRIAR: Peace, thou hast told a tale whose every word Threatens eternal slaughter to the soul. I'm sorry I have heard it; would mine ears Had been one minute deaf before the hour That thou cam'st to me. O young man, castaway, By the religious number of mine order, I day and night have...
Page 2 - Even like an o'er-grown lion in a cave, That goes not out to prey.