Tales from Shakespear, by C. [and M.] Lamb, 2. köide1807 |
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... soon as she en- tered the house , she received a letter from Ber- tram which almost broke her heart . The good countess received her with a cordial welcome , as if she had been her son's own choice , and a lady of a high degree , and ...
... soon as she en- tered the house , she received a letter from Ber- tram which almost broke her heart . The good countess received her with a cordial welcome , as if she had been her son's own choice , and a lady of a high degree , and ...
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... soon changed towards him , for he perceived that Ber- tram wore the very ring upon his finger which he had given to Helena ; and he well remembered that Helena had called all the saints in heaven to witness she would never part with ...
... soon changed towards him , for he perceived that Ber- tram wore the very ring upon his finger which he had given to Helena ; and he well remembered that Helena had called all the saints in heaven to witness she would never part with ...
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... soon apparent of what manner of gentleness she was composed , for her music - master rushed into the room to complain that the gentle Katherine , his pupil , had broken his head with her lute for presuming to find fault with her ...
... soon apparent of what manner of gentleness she was composed , for her music - master rushed into the room to complain that the gentle Katherine , his pupil , had broken his head with her lute for presuming to find fault with her ...
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... soon served ; but Petruchio , pretending to find fault with every dish , threw the meat about the floor , and or- dered the servants to remove it away , and all this he did , as he said , in love for his Katherine , that she might not ...
... soon served ; but Petruchio , pretending to find fault with every dish , threw the meat about the floor , and or- dered the servants to remove it away , and all this he did , as he said , in love for his Katherine , that she might not ...
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... soon as she arrived , was brought to bed of two sons , and what was very strange , they were both so exactly alike , that it was impossible to distinguish the one from the other . At the same time that my wife was brought to bed of ...
... soon as she arrived , was brought to bed of two sons , and what was very strange , they were both so exactly alike , that it was impossible to distinguish the one from the other . At the same time that my wife was brought to bed of ...
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abbess Adriana Ægeon 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.