Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... fafe and easy , the conjec- turer's perilous and difficult . Yet as the greater part of the plays are extant only in one copy , the peril must not be avoided , nor the difficulty refused . Of the readings which this emulation of amend ...
... fafe and easy , the conjec- turer's perilous and difficult . Yet as the greater part of the plays are extant only in one copy , the peril must not be avoided , nor the difficulty refused . Of the readings which this emulation of amend ...
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... fafe . 1 If my readings are of little value , they have not been oftentatiously displayed or importunately ob- truded . I could have written longer notes , for the art of writing notes is not of difficult attainment . The work is ...
... fafe . 1 If my readings are of little value , they have not been oftentatiously displayed or importunately ob- truded . I could have written longer notes , for the art of writing notes is not of difficult attainment . The work is ...
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... fafe ? Ari . Not a hair perifh'd : On their + sustaining garments not a blemish , If it be at all necessary to explain the meaning , it is this : Not a foul but felt such a fever as madmen feel , when the frantic fit is upon them ...
... fafe ? Ari . Not a hair perifh'd : On their + sustaining garments not a blemish , If it be at all necessary to explain the meaning , it is this : Not a foul but felt such a fever as madmen feel , when the frantic fit is upon them ...
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... fafe for these three hours . Fer . O most dear mistress , The fun will fet before I shall discharge What I must strive to do . Mira . If you'll fit down , I'll bear your logs the while : pray , give me that ; I'll carry't to the pile ...
... fafe for these three hours . Fer . O most dear mistress , The fun will fet before I shall discharge What I must strive to do . Mira . If you'll fit down , I'll bear your logs the while : pray , give me that ; I'll carry't to the pile ...
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... fafe , That no man hath recourse to her by night . Val . What lets , but one may enter at her window ? Duke . Her chamber is aloft , far from the ground , And built so shelving , that one cannot climb it Without apparent hazard of his ...
... fafe , That no man hath recourse to her by night . Val . What lets , but one may enter at her window ? Duke . Her chamber is aloft , far from the ground , And built so shelving , that one cannot climb it Without apparent hazard of his ...
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Page 89 - O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pros.
Page 23 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Page 83 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Page 83 - To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid (Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd The noontide sun , call'd forth the mutinous winds , And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire , and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...
Page 82 - Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Passion as they, be kindlier...