The Oxford and Cambridge Shakespeare, with notes prepared specially for the Oxford and Cambridge local examinations. [10 pt. Wanting King Lear and Midsummer night's dream]. |
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... Wearing the crown of France , till satisfied That fair queen Isabel , his grandmother , Was 6 lineal of the lady Ermengare , Daughter to Charles the foresaid duke of Loraine : By the which marriage , the line of Charles the great Was re ...
... Wearing the crown of France , till satisfied That fair queen Isabel , his grandmother , Was 6 lineal of the lady Ermengare , Daughter to Charles the foresaid duke of Loraine : By the which marriage , the line of Charles the great Was re ...
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... wears 2 her own hair . Con . I could make as true a boast as that , if I had a sow to my mistress . Dau . Le chien est retourné à son propre vomissement , et la truie lavée au bourbier : thou makest use of anything . Con . Yet do I not ...
... wears 2 her own hair . Con . I could make as true a boast as that , if I had a sow to my mistress . Dau . Le chien est retourné à son propre vomissement , et la truie lavée au bourbier : thou makest use of anything . Con . Yet do I not ...
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... wear your dagger in your cap that day : lest he knock that about yours . Pist . Art thou his friend ? K. Hen . And his kinsman too . Pist . The figo for thee , then ! K. Hen . I thank you : God be with you ! Pist . My name is Pistol ...
... wear your dagger in your cap that day : lest he knock that about yours . Pist . Art thou his friend ? K. Hen . And his kinsman too . Pist . The figo for thee , then ! K. Hen . I thank you : God be with you ! Pist . My name is Pistol ...
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... wear ; Such outward things dwell not in my desires : But if it be a sin to covet honour I am the most offending soul alive . No , ' faith , my_coz , wish not a man from England : God's peace ! I would not lose so great an honour , As ...
... wear ; Such outward things dwell not in my desires : But if it be a sin to covet honour I am the most offending soul alive . No , ' faith , my_coz , wish not a man from England : God's peace ! I would not lose so great an honour , As ...
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... men . ' The word is thus used here . See Abbott , 87 . An . The modern and is frequently thus spelt in early English , and also by Elizabethan authors . 1 leeks did grow , wearing leeks in their 1 98 [ AOT IV . KING HENRY V ,
... men . ' The word is thus used here . See Abbott , 87 . An . The modern and is frequently thus spelt in early English , and also by Elizabethan authors . 1 leeks did grow , wearing leeks in their 1 98 [ AOT IV . KING HENRY V ,
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Page 39 - I, to comfort him, bid him a' should not think of God, I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So a' bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my hand into the bed and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and so upward, and upward, and all was as cold as any stone.
Page 96 - Captain, — if you look in the maps of the 'orld, I warrant, you shall find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon, and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth...
Page 48 - Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war. And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not...
Page 9 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Page 12 - Hear him but reason in divinity, And, all-admiring, with an inward wish You would desire the king were made a prelate : Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would say it hath been...
Page 21 - Where some, like magistrates correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in. their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor...
Page 48 - In peace there's nothing- so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears. Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood...
Page 39 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child ; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide : for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Page 127 - God's will ! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost ; It...
Page 48 - O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide; Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To his full height.