Twelfth night. Winter's talePrinted for, and under the direction of, John Bell, 1788 |
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... suppose him virtuous , know him noble , Of great estate , of fresh and stainless youth ; In voices well divulg'd , free , learn'd , and valiant , And , in dimension , and the shape of nature , A gracious person ; but yet I cannot love ...
... suppose him virtuous , know him noble , Of great estate , of fresh and stainless youth ; In voices well divulg'd , free , learn'd , and valiant , And , in dimension , and the shape of nature , A gracious person ; but yet I cannot love ...
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... suppose to have been meant by Sir Toby , was Mary Frith . The appellation by which she was generally known , was Mall Cutpurse . She was at once an hermaphrodite , a prostitute , a bawd , a bully , a thief , a receiver of stolen goods ...
... suppose to have been meant by Sir Toby , was Mary Frith . The appellation by which she was generally known , was Mall Cutpurse . She was at once an hermaphrodite , a prostitute , a bawd , a bully , a thief , a receiver of stolen goods ...
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... suppose this cant term to have been current among the musicians of the age . All professions have in some degree their jargon ; and the remoter they are from liberal science , and the less consequential to the general interests of life ...
... suppose this cant term to have been current among the musicians of the age . All professions have in some degree their jargon ; and the remoter they are from liberal science , and the less consequential to the general interests of life ...
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William Shakespeare. * 124 . of good life ? ] I do not suppose that by a song of good life , the Clown means a song of a moral turn ; though Sir Andrew answers to it in that signifi- cation : Good life , I believe , is harmless mirth and ...
William Shakespeare. * 124 . of good life ? ] I do not suppose that by a song of good life , the Clown means a song of a moral turn ; though Sir Andrew answers to it in that signifi- cation : Good life , I believe , is harmless mirth and ...
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... suppose it was Shakspere's purpose , to hint to us those surprizing effects of mu- sick , which the ancients speak of . When they tell us of Amphion , who moved stones and trees ; Orpheus and Arion , who tamed savage beasts ; and ...
... suppose it was Shakspere's purpose , to hint to us those surprizing effects of mu- sick , which the ancients speak of . When they tell us of Amphion , who moved stones and trees ; Orpheus and Arion , who tamed savage beasts ; and ...
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ancient Antigonus 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 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 Polyolbion pr'ythee pray prince queen Romeo and Juliet SCENE seems Shakspere Shakspere's Shep shew Sicilia Sir Andrew Sir Andrew Ague-cheek Sir Toby Sir Topas song speak 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
Popular passages
Page 75 - 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 77 - 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 75 - 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.