The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: The merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. Measure for measure. Much ado about nothingT. Bensley, 1800 |
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... there are several im- preffions ; but that in which I read it , was published in 1632 , quarto . A fomewhat fimilar story occurs in Piacevoli Notti di Straparola , Nott . 4. Fav . 4 . This comedy was firft entered at Stationers ' Hall ...
... there are several im- preffions ; but that in which I read it , was published in 1632 , quarto . A fomewhat fimilar story occurs in Piacevoli Notti di Straparola , Nott . 4. Fav . 4 . This comedy was firft entered at Stationers ' Hall ...
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... there are fome per- fous who ftill affect to believe , that all our author's plays were originally published by himself . FARMER . Dr. Farmer's opinion is well fupported by " An eclogue_on the noble affemblies revived on Cotswold Hills ...
... there are fome per- fous who ftill affect to believe , that all our author's plays were originally published by himself . FARMER . Dr. Farmer's opinion is well fupported by " An eclogue_on the noble affemblies revived on Cotswold Hills ...
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... there is but three skirts for yourself , in my fimple conjec- tures ; but that is all one : If fir John Falstaff have com- mitted difparagements unto you , I am of the church , and will be glad to do my benevolence , to make atone ...
... there is but three skirts for yourself , in my fimple conjec- tures ; but that is all one : If fir John Falstaff have com- mitted difparagements unto you , I am of the church , and will be glad to do my benevolence , to make atone ...
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... there ? true . Eva . Shall I tell you a lie ? I do despise a liar , as I do despise one that is false ; or , as I defpife one that is not The knight , fir John , is there ; and , I beseech you , be ruled by your well - willers . I will ...
... there ? true . Eva . Shall I tell you a lie ? I do despise a liar , as I do despise one that is false ; or , as I defpife one that is not The knight , fir John , is there ; and , I beseech you , be ruled by your well - willers . I will ...
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... There is three umpires in this matter , as I understand : that is - master Page , fidelicet , master Page ; and there is myself , fidelicet , myself ; and the three party is , lastly and finally , mine host of the Garter . Page . We ...
... There is three umpires in this matter , as I understand : that is - master Page , fidelicet , master Page ; and there is myself , fidelicet , myself ; and the three party is , lastly and finally , mine host of the Garter . Page . We ...
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Page 56 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours...
Page 38 - Be absolute for death ; either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life : If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep. A breath thou art (Servile to all the skyey influences) That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, Hourly afflict.
Page 25 - Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 1 - 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 sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.