Comedies. Two gentlemen of VeronaHarper & brothers, 1847 |
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... fairy or pastoral land , and informed him what manner of life the inhabitants of that region lead ? We cannot open a page of Sydney's Arcadia ' without being struck with what we are accustomed to call anachronisms , and these from a ...
... fairy or pastoral land , and informed him what manner of life the inhabitants of that region lead ? We cannot open a page of Sydney's Arcadia ' without being struck with what we are accustomed to call anachronisms , and these from a ...
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... fairy land : O , spite of spites ! We talk with goblins , owls , and elvish sprites . Come , sister . - Dromio , play the porter well . Ant . S. Am I in earth , in heaven , or in hell ? Sleeping or waking ? mad , or well - advis'd ...
... fairy land : O , spite of spites ! We talk with goblins , owls , and elvish sprites . Come , sister . - Dromio , play the porter well . Ant . S. Am I in earth , in heaven , or in hell ? Sleeping or waking ? mad , or well - advis'd ...
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... fairy , pitiless and rough ; A wolf , nay , worse , a fellow all in buff ; A back - friend , a shoulder - clapper , one that counter- mands The passages of alleys , creeks , and narrow lands ; A hound that runs counter , and yet draws ...
... fairy , pitiless and rough ; A wolf , nay , worse , a fellow all in buff ; A back - friend , a shoulder - clapper , one that counter- mands The passages of alleys , creeks , and narrow lands ; A hound that runs counter , and yet draws ...
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... fairy land " - " In the first act we have a description of the unlawful arts of Ephesus . It was observed by Capell , that the character given of Ephe- sus in this place is the very same that it had with the ancients , which may pass ...
... fairy land " - " In the first act we have a description of the unlawful arts of Ephesus . It was observed by Capell , that the character given of Ephe- sus in this place is the very same that it had with the ancients , which may pass ...
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... fairy - land of his own imagination . " Shakespeare has set himself to imitate the tone of polite conversation then prevailing among the fair , the witty , and the learned ; and he has imitated it but too faithfully . It is as if the ...
... fairy - land of his own imagination . " Shakespeare has set himself to imitate the tone of polite conversation then prevailing among the fair , the witty , and the learned ; and he has imitated it but too faithfully . It is as if the ...
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Page 23 - I am a Jew : Hath not a Jew eyes ? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions ? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is ? if you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a...
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Page 26 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power; And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.