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... lord , and save your life.— K. Flie villaine , looke I as tho ' I would flie , No , first shall this dull and senseless ball of earth Receive my bodie cold and void of sense , Yon watery heavens rowle on my gloomy day , And darksome ...
... lord , and save your life.— K. Flie villaine , looke I as tho ' I would flie , No , first shall this dull and senseless ball of earth Receive my bodie cold and void of sense , Yon watery heavens rowle on my gloomy day , And darksome ...
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... Lord of York , it better shew'd with you , When that your flock , assembled by the bell , Encircled you , to hear with reverence Your exposition on the holy text , Than now to see you here , an iron man , Cheering a rout of rebels with ...
... Lord of York , it better shew'd with you , When that your flock , assembled by the bell , Encircled you , to hear with reverence Your exposition on the holy text , Than now to see you here , an iron man , Cheering a rout of rebels with ...
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... lord . Who ? I ? O God ! your only jig - maker . He would be open to an occasional disposition to ridi- cule persons who come before him , as Polonius and Os- rick . There is a remarkable instance of the delicacy of Shakespeare in what ...
... lord . Who ? I ? O God ! your only jig - maker . He would be open to an occasional disposition to ridi- cule persons who come before him , as Polonius and Os- rick . There is a remarkable instance of the delicacy of Shakespeare in what ...
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accented acted beautiful Ben Jonson blank verse blood break broken Cæsar cæsura called character Collier comedy Comedy of Errors comic conceits Coriolanus crown curious Cymbeline death delight doth double endings dramatic dull effect enumerative eyes Falstaff fancy Farewell father feeling Fletcher flowing fourth style friends gentle Hamlet hand hath hear heart heaven Henry IV Henry VI Henry VIII honour imitation instance Jonson Julius Cæsar kind King lines long speeches look lord Love's Labour's Lost Macbeth Malone Marlow means merely Merry Wives metre mind nature never night observed old play Oldcastle Othello passage perhaps poems poet poetical poetry poor praise printed prose remarkable rhyme Richard Richard II Romeo scene seems Shake Shakespeare soliloquy sometimes Sonnets soul speak spirit sweet syllable taste tell thee thine thou art thou hast thought tongue Tybalt unbroken unto versification weak endings words writer written