The Comedies of ShakespeareHarper, 1889 |
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ANDREW LANG Angelo Antipholus Beatrice beautiful Benedick Bertram Biron brother Caliban Celia character charm Claudio COMEDIES OF SHAKESPEARE Comedy of Errors comic critics death Dogberry drama dream Dromio Duke E. A. ABBEY Elizabethan English Epidamnus euphuism eyes fairy Falstaff fancy father fool Gentlemen of Verona haps HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY hath heart Helena Hero humor husband ILLUSTRATIONS BY E. A. Illyria Isabella Jaques Jules Lemaître Julia King lady live Lord Love's Labor's Lost lover Lucentio Lucio Malvolio Mariana married matter Measure for Measure melancholy Menæchmus Merry Wives mirth Mistress Molière MONTHLY MAGAZINE mortal never night Orlando Parolles passion perhaps Petruchio piece Plautus play plot poet poetry Portia Prospero Proteus quarto Queen Roman Rosalind says Scene Shake Shakespearian shrew Silvia Sir Andrew speare speare's spirit stage story sweet Taming Tempest thee things thou tion Twelfth Night Valentine Verona wife Winter's Tale woman young
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Page 34 - But these are all lies : men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Page 93 - It were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it; he is so above me ! In his bright radiance and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.
Page 70 - Thou hast nor youth nor age, But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, Dreaming on both : for all thy blessed youth Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms Of palsied eld...
Page 70 - Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 128 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!
Page 114 - 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 162 - We were, fair queen, Two lads that thought there was no more behind, But such a day to-morrow as to-day, And to be boy eternal. Her. Was not my lord the verier wag o' the two ? Pol. We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' the sun And bleat the one at the other.
Page 66 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely...
Page 43 - I be lessen'd in his love ? I wrong the grave with fears untrue: Shall love be blamed for want of faith ? There must be wisdom with great Death : The dead shall look me thro
Page 72 - Old faces glimmer'd thro' the doors, Old footsteps trod the upper floors, Old voices called her from without. She only said, "My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!