Tales from Shakespear, by C. [and M.] Lamb, 2. köide1807 |
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... , knowing Bertram's dislike to his wife , feared he had destroyed her ; and he ordered his guards to seize Bertram , sayin , " I am wrapt in dismal thinking , for I fear the life of Helena was foully snatched . " At this mo- 20 ALL'S WELL.
... , knowing Bertram's dislike to his wife , feared he had destroyed her ; and he ordered his guards to seize Bertram , sayin , " I am wrapt in dismal thinking , for I fear the life of Helena was foully snatched . " At this mo- 20 ALL'S WELL.
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... stampt and swore so , that the high - spirited Katherine trembled and shook with fear . After the cere mony was over , while they were yet in the VOL . II . C church , he called for wine , and drank a THE TAMING OF THE SHREW . $ 29.
... stampt and swore so , that the high - spirited Katherine trembled and shook with fear . After the cere mony was over , while they were yet in the VOL . II . C church , he called for wine , and drank a THE TAMING OF THE SHREW . $ 29.
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... fear you have got the veriest shrew of all . " " Well , " said Pe- truchio , " I say no , and therefore for assurance that I speak the truth , let us each one send for his wife , and he whose wife is most obedient to come at first when ...
... fear you have got the veriest shrew of all . " " Well , " said Pe- truchio , " I say no , and therefore for assurance that I speak the truth , let us each one send for his wife , and he whose wife is most obedient to come at first when ...
Page 43
... had ven- tured to come to the city of Ephesus , which it was death for any Syracusan merchant to enter . Ageon said , that he did not fear to die , for Vol.2 . p.44 . Antipholis . of Syracuse & Adriana XIII The Comedy of Errors.
... had ven- tured to come to the city of Ephesus , which it was death for any Syracusan merchant to enter . Ageon said , that he did not fear to die , for Vol.2 . p.44 . Antipholis . of Syracuse & Adriana XIII The Comedy of Errors.
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... fear , wept for fashion , because they saw their mother weep , filled me with ter- ror for them , though I did not for myself fear death ; and all my thoughts were bent to contrive means for their safety . I tied my youngest son to the ...
... fear , wept for fashion , because they saw their mother weep , filled me with ter- ror for them , though I did not for myself fear death ; and all my thoughts were bent to contrive means for their safety . I tied my youngest son to the ...
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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.