Comedy of the Two Gentlemen of VeronaHarper, 1887 - 158 pages |
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1st folio Antonio banish'd banished Beadsman beauty Camb character Clarke Coll consort Cymb Cymbeline doth Duke edition Enter PROTEUS Exeunt Exit fair fat friar father fault fear fool Fulia gentle Gentlemen of Verona give grace Hanmer Hanmer reads hath heart heaven Henry honour Host Iachimo Item Johnson Julia Julius Cæsar kiss lady ladyship later folios Launce letter live look lord Love's lover Lucetta Madam Silvia maid Malone Mantua mean Milan mind mistress month's mind night oaths Outlaw pageant Panthino passion pity play pray Rich Robin Hood Romeo and Juliet Saint Nicholas says SCENE servant Shakespeare Shakespeare's Shakspere shoe Sir Eglamour Sir Proteus Sir Thurio Sir Valentine speak Speed Steevens sweet syllable tears tell thee Theseus thou art thou hast thy master triumphs Twelfth Night Valentine's wilt woman word worthy writ youth
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Page 26 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Page 20 - gainst my fury • Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further : Go, release them, Ariel ; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, • And they shall be themselves.
Page 29 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage ; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamel'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he strays With willing sport to the wild ocean.
Page 74 - I'll be as patient as a gentle stream And make a pastime of each weary step, Till the last step have brought me to my love; And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil A blessed soul doth in Elysium.
Page 143 - In perfect diapason, whilst they stood In first obedience, and their state of good. O, may we soon again renew that song, And keep in tune with Heaven, till God ere long To his celestial concert us unite, To live with him, and sing in endless morn of light ! VOL.
Page 21 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 96 - Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her? Holy, fair, and wise is she, The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be. Is she kind as she is fair? For beauty lives with kindness: Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness ; And, being help'd, inhabits there. Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling; She excels each mortal thing, Upon the dull earth dwelling: To her let us garlands bring.
Page 18 - Not for the world: why, man, she is mine own; And I as rich in having such a jewel, As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
Page 74 - The more thou damm'st it up, the more it burns. The current that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; But when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with th...
Page 112 - This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record my woes.