Tales from Shakespear, by C. [and M.] Lamb, 2. köide1807 |
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... dear son , seemed a second time to bury her husband , whose loss she had so lately mourned , yet she dared not keep him a single day , but gave instant orders for his de- parture . Lafeu , who came to fetch him , tried to comfort the ...
... dear son , seemed a second time to bury her husband , whose loss she had so lately mourned , yet she dared not keep him a single day , but gave instant orders for his de- parture . Lafeu , who came to fetch him , tried to comfort the ...
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... dear son with tears and many blessings , and commended him to the care of Lafeu , saying , " Good my lord , advise him , for he is an unseasoned courtier . " Bertram's last words were spoken to Helena , but they were words of mere ...
... dear son with tears and many blessings , and commended him to the care of Lafeu , saying , " Good my lord , advise him , for he is an unseasoned courtier . " Bertram's last words were spoken to Helena , but they were words of mere ...
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... dear lord , and dared not form any wish but to live his servant , and so living to die his vassal . So great the dis- tance seemed to her between his height of dig- nity and her lowly fortunes , that she would say , " It were all one ...
... dear lord , and dared not form any wish but to live his servant , and so living to die his vassal . So great the dis- tance seemed to her between his height of dig- nity and her lowly fortunes , that she would say , " It were all one ...
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... dear lord , the count Ros- silion ; but she returned back a dejected lady to her noble mother - in - law , and as soon as she en- tered the house , she received a letter from Ber- tram which almost broke her heart . The good countess ...
... dear lord , the count Ros- silion ; but she returned back a dejected lady to her noble mother - in - law , and as soon as she en- tered the house , she received a letter from Ber- tram which almost broke her heart . The good countess ...
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... dear husband's face . $ " Is he not a handsome man ? " said the widow . " I like him well , " replied Helena with great truth . All the way they walked , the talkative widow's dis- course was all of Bertram ; she told Helena the 14 ...
... dear husband's face . $ " Is he not a handsome man ? " said the widow . " I like him well , " replied Helena with great truth . All the way they walked , the talkative widow's dis- course was all of Bertram ; she told Helena the 14 ...
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abbess Adriana ¯geon Angelo Anthonio Antipholis of Syracuse bade Baptista beauty begged Bertram brother brought called Cassio Cesario Claudio Cleon count Paris countess daughter dead dear death demona Desdemona Diana Dionysia Dromio duke Ephesus fair father fear feast fortunes friar gave gentle gentleman give goldsmith grave grief Hamlet hear heard heart Heaven Helena Hellicanus honour husband Iago Illyria Isabel Juliet Katherine king knew lady Laertes Leoline living look lord Capulet lord Timon Lychorida Lysimachus maid Mantua Marina marriage married Michael Cassio mind mistress mother Mountague murder Narbon never night noble old lord Olivia Orsino Othello pardon Paris Pericles Petruchio poor prince prince of Tyre prison promised queen replied ring Romeo Sebastian seemed sent servant shewed ship sister sorrow speak story strange sweet tell Thaisa Tharsus thing thought told Tybalt Tyre Verona Viola weep wife wished words young
Popular passages
Page 109 - O fellow, come, the song we had last night: Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain: The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Page 238 - A terrible child-bed hast thou had, my dear, No light, no fire : the unfriendly elements Forgot thee utterly ; nor have I time To give thee hallow'd to thy grave, but straight Must cast thee, scarcely coffin'd, in the ooze; Where, for a monument upon thy bones, And aye-remaining || lamps, the belching whale, And humming water must o'erwhelm thy corpse, Lying with simple shells...
Page 72 - 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.
Page 7 - I know I love in vain, strive against hope; Yet in this captious and intenible sieve I still pour in the waters of my love And lack not to lose still : thus, Indian-like, Religious in mine error, I adore The sun, that looks upon his worshipper, But knows of him no more.
Page 102 - And what is her history?" said Orsino. "A blank, my lord," replied Viola: "she never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm in the bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought, and with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at Grief.
Page 27 - You lie, in faith, for you are called plain Kate, And bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst ; But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom, Kate of...
Page 82 - 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 254 - Helicanus, strike me, honour'd sir ; Give me a gash, put me to present pain ; Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me, O'erbear the shores of my mortality, And drown me with their sweetness.
Page 208 - twas wondrous pitiful; She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished That heaven had made her such a man; she thanked me, And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake; She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them.
Page 94 - 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.