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Page 523 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 376 - Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, — and then my state (Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate ; For thy sweet love remembered, such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
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Page 224 - I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear With hounds of Sparta : never did I hear Such gallant chiding ; for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry : I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | William Shakspere: A Biography, Book 2 William Shakspere: A Biography, Charles Knight Volume 8 of [The pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere] |
| Author | Charles Knight |
| Publisher | C. Knight and Company, 1843 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 18 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 544 pages |
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