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... MEDON . I do , with all the deference which befits a gentleman when a lady holds forth on the virtues of her own sex . He is a parricide of his mother's name , And with an impious hand murders her fame , That wrongs the praise of women ...
... MEDON . I do , with all the deference which befits a gentleman when a lady holds forth on the virtues of her own sex . He is a parricide of his mother's name , And with an impious hand murders her fame , That wrongs the praise of women ...
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... MEDON . ALDA . Do so , and let us talk like reasonable beings . MEDON . Then tell me ( as a reasonable woman you will not be affronted with the question ) , do you really expect that any one will read this little book of yours ? ALDA ...
... MEDON . ALDA . Do so , and let us talk like reasonable beings . MEDON . Then tell me ( as a reasonable woman you will not be affronted with the question ) , do you really expect that any one will read this little book of yours ? ALDA ...
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... MEDON . I do in this I cannot suspect you of affectation , for the profession of disinterestedness is uncalled for , and the contrary would be too far countenanced by the custom of the day to be matter of reserve or reproach . But how ...
... MEDON . I do in this I cannot suspect you of affectation , for the profession of disinterestedness is uncalled for , and the contrary would be too far countenanced by the custom of the day to be matter of reserve or reproach . But how ...
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... MEDON . And you have written a book to make them beiter ? ALDA . Heaven forbid ! else I were only fit for the next lunatic asylum . Vanity run mad never conceived such an impossible idea . MEDON . Then , in few words , what is the ...
... MEDON . And you have written a book to make them beiter ? ALDA . Heaven forbid ! else I were only fit for the next lunatic asylum . Vanity run mad never conceived such an impossible idea . MEDON . Then , in few words , what is the ...
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... MEDON . And why have you not chosen your examples from real life ? you might easily have done so . You have not been a mere spectator , or a mere actor , but a lounger behind the scenes of existence - have even assisted in preparing the ...
... MEDON . And why have you not chosen your examples from real life ? you might easily have done so . You have not been a mere spectator , or a mere actor , but a lounger behind the scenes of existence - have even assisted in preparing the ...
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Page 113 - The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon: Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes: The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd; And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Page 325 - As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Page 326 - Like the poor cat i' the adage? Macb. Prithee, peace I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Lady M. What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man.
Page 278 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 326 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me; I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 100 - Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Page 74 - tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm. Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty At each wild word to feel within A sweet recoil of love and pity.
Page 98 - Even here undone ! I was not much afeard : for once, or twice, I was about to speak ; and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun, that shines upon his court, Hides not his visage from our cottage, but Looks on alike.— Will 't please you, sir, be gone?
Page xv - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 71 - Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night : It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden ; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens.