Shakespeare's Comedy of the Two Gentlemen of VeronaBaker & Taylor, 1898 - 160 pages |
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1st folio Accented Antonio banish'd banished Beadsman beauty Camb character Clarke Coll consort Cymb Cymbeline doth Duke Eglamour Enter PROTEUS Exeunt Exit eyes fair fat friar father 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 Macb 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'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 24 - 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 18 - 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 78 - Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces : Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces. That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
Page 110 - How use doth breed a habit in a man ! 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.
Page 16 - 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 19 - 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 94 - 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 helped, 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 151 - O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure?
Page 14 - ... that just proportion, that union and interpenetration, of the universal and the particular, which must ever pervade all works of decided genius and true science.
Page 64 - s his name, Made use and fair advantage of his days: His years but young, but his experience old; His head unmellow'd , but his judgment ripe ; And, in a word, (for far behind his worth Come all the praises that I now bestow) He is complete in feature, and in mind, With all good grace to grace a gentleman. Duke. Beshrewme, Sir, but, if he make this good , He is as worthy for an empress' love , As meet to be an emperor's counsellor.