The plays of Shakespeare, from the text of S. Johnson, with the prefaces, notes &c. of Rowe, Pope and many other critics. 6 vols. [in 12 pt. Followed by] Shakespeare's poems, Volume 6 |
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Page 285
... sword may prove . Mow B. Let not my cold words here accufe my zeal ; " Tis not the trial of a woman's war , The bitter clamour of two eager tongues , Can arbitrate this caufe betwixt us twain ; The blood is hot , that must be cool'd for ...
... sword may prove . Mow B. Let not my cold words here accufe my zeal ; " Tis not the trial of a woman's war , The bitter clamour of two eager tongues , Can arbitrate this caufe betwixt us twain ; The blood is hot , that must be cool'd for ...
Page 286
... sword I swear , Which gently laid my knighthood on my shoulder , I'll answer thee in any fair degree , Or chivalrous defign of knightly trial ; And when I mount , alive may I not light , If I be traitor , or unjustly fight ! [ charge ...
... sword I swear , Which gently laid my knighthood on my shoulder , I'll answer thee in any fair degree , Or chivalrous defign of knightly trial ; And when I mount , alive may I not light , If I be traitor , or unjustly fight ! [ charge ...
Page 298
... sword your banish'd hands ; Swear by the duty that you owe to heav'n ( Our part therein we banish with yourselves ) To keep the oath that we administer . You never fhall , so help you truth , and heav'n ! Embrace each other's love in ...
... sword your banish'd hands ; Swear by the duty that you owe to heav'n ( Our part therein we banish with yourselves ) To keep the oath that we administer . You never fhall , so help you truth , and heav'n ! Embrace each other's love in ...
Page 348
... sword , That it fhall render vengeance and revenge , Till thou the lie - giver , and that lie , reft In earth as quiet , as thy father's fcull . In proof whereof , there is mine honour's pawn ; Engage it to the trial , if thou dar'st ...
... sword , That it fhall render vengeance and revenge , Till thou the lie - giver , and that lie , reft In earth as quiet , as thy father's fcull . In proof whereof , there is mine honour's pawn ; Engage it to the trial , if thou dar'st ...
Page 484
... sword . LAN . This is the strangest tale that e'er I heard . P. HEN . This is the strangest fellow , brother John . Come , bring your luggage nobly on your back ; For my part , if a lie may do thee grace , I'll gild it with the happiest ...
... sword . LAN . This is the strangest tale that e'er I heard . P. HEN . This is the strangest fellow , brother John . Come , bring your luggage nobly on your back ; For my part , if a lie may do thee grace , I'll gild it with the happiest ...
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Page 529 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased ; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 302 - O, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 418 - Should I turn upon the true prince ? Why, thou knowest, I am as valiant as Hercules: but beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter ; I was a coward on instinct.
Page 390 - He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took't away again; Who therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff...
Page 527 - With deaf'ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude; And, in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king ? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 306 - This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out, I die pronouncing it, Like to a tenement or pelting farm...
Page 390 - But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Page 462 - tis no matter ; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if Honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can Honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is Honour ? A word. What is that word, Honour ? Air. A trim reckoning! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 329 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 305 - York Vex not yourself, nor strive not with your breath; For all in vain comes counsel to his ear. Gaunt O but they say the tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain. For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.