Twelfth night. Winter's talePrinted for, and under the direction of, John Bell, 1788 |
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... Ancients , supposes this story to warn us against en- quiring into the secrets of princes , by shewing , that those who know that which for reasons of state is to be concealed , will be detected and destroyed by their own servants ...
... Ancients , supposes this story to warn us against en- quiring into the secrets of princes , by shewing , that those who know that which for reasons of state is to be concealed , will be detected and destroyed by their own servants ...
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William Shakespeare. mean the same thing . A proper man , was the ancient phrase for a handsome man : " This Ludovico is a proper man . " Othello . The proper false may be yet explained another way . Shakspere sometimes uses proper for ...
William Shakespeare. mean the same thing . A proper man , was the ancient phrase for a handsome man : " This Ludovico is a proper man . " Othello . The proper false may be yet explained another way . Shakspere sometimes uses proper for ...
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... ancient writers , and Spenser in particular . So again , in The Noble Soldier , 1643 : " Fright him as he's embracing his new leman . The money was given him for his leman , i . e . his mistress . He says he did impetticoat the gratuity ...
... ancient writers , and Spenser in particular . So again , in The Noble Soldier , 1643 : " Fright him as he's embracing his new leman . The money was given him for his leman , i . e . his mistress . He says he did impetticoat the gratuity ...
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... ancients speak of . When they tell us of Amphion , who moved stones and trees ; Orpheus and Arion , who tamed savage beasts ; and Timotheus who governed , as he pleased , the passions of his human auditors . So noble an observation has ...
... ancients speak of . When they tell us of Amphion , who moved stones and trees ; Orpheus and Arion , who tamed savage beasts ; and Timotheus who governed , as he pleased , the passions of his human auditors . So noble an observation has ...
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... Ancient Poetry , vol . i . p . 204. Just the same may be said where Mercutio applies it , in Romeo and Juliet , act . ii . sc . iv . FARMER . I found what I once supposed to be a part of this song , in All's lost by Lust , a tragedy ...
... Ancient Poetry , vol . i . p . 204. Just the same may be said where Mercutio applies it , in Romeo and Juliet , act . ii . sc . iv . FARMER . I found what I once supposed to be a part of this song , in All's lost by Lust , a tragedy ...
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ancient Antigonus Antony and Cleopatra Autolycus Ben Jonson beseech better Bohemia Brownist called Camillo Cesario CLEOMENES Clown daughter dear dost doth Duke Enter Exeunt Exit eyes father fear folio fool Gent gentleman give hand Hanmer hath heart heaven HENLEY Hermione Honest Whore honour i'the Illyria in't is't JOHNSON king kiss knight lady last enchantment Leontes lord madam MALONE Malvolio means mistress musick never o'er o'the old copy Olivia on't pash passage Paul Paulina Perdita play Polixenes pr'ythee pray prince queen SCENE seems Shakspere Shakspere's Shep shew Sicilia Sir Andrew Sir Andrew Ague-cheek Sir Toby Sir Topas song speak speech STEEVENS swear sweet tell thee THEOBALD there's thing thou art thou hast three merry TWELFTH NIGHT Viola volgo WARBURTON WINTER'S TALE woman word
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Page 73 - Say there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Page 43 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' 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 75 - I'd have you do it ever: when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so; so give alms; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too : When you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Page 73 - You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 5 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ! it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour ! Enough ; no more : 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 102 - When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day.
Page 25 - Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on...
Page 33 - O, mistress mine, where are you roaming? O stay and hear ; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low : Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers' meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.