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... hope of finding readers , and I shall find a few . Accident first made me an authoress ; and not now , nor ever , have I written to flatter any prevailing fashion of the day for the sake of profit , though this is done , I know , by ...
... hope of finding readers , and I shall find a few . Accident first made me an authoress ; and not now , nor ever , have I written to flatter any prevailing fashion of the day for the sake of profit , though this is done , I know , by ...
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... hope there is for those who despair -how much comfort for those whom a heartless world has taught to contemn both others and themselves , and so put barriers to the hard , cold , selfish , mocking , and levelling spirit of the day — O ...
... hope there is for those who despair -how much comfort for those whom a heartless world has taught to contemn both others and themselves , and so put barriers to the hard , cold , selfish , mocking , and levelling spirit of the day — O ...
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... hope to do so ? I pity from my soul the persons you allude to - for to such minds there can exist few uncontaminated sources of pleasure , either in nature or in art . MEDON . Ay- " the perfumes of Paradise were poison to the Dives ...
... hope to do so ? I pity from my soul the persons you allude to - for to such minds there can exist few uncontaminated sources of pleasure , either in nature or in art . MEDON . Ay- " the perfumes of Paradise were poison to the Dives ...
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... hope you have given her a place among the women in whom the tender affections and moral sentiments predominate . ALDA . You laugh ; but , jesting apart , perhaps it would have been a more accurate classifi- cation than placing her among ...
... hope you have given her a place among the women in whom the tender affections and moral sentiments predominate . ALDA . You laugh ; but , jesting apart , perhaps it would have been a more accurate classifi- cation than placing her among ...
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... hope you have refuted that insolent assump- tion ( shall I call it ? ) , that Shakspeare tampered inexcusably with the truth of history . He is the truest of all historians . His anachronisms always remind me of those in the fine old ...
... hope you have refuted that insolent assump- tion ( shall I call it ? ) , that Shakspeare tampered inexcusably with the truth of history . He is the truest of all historians . His anachronisms always remind me of those in the fine old ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
affection ALDA Amleth Angelo Bassanio Beatrice beauty Benedick Bertram bosom breath brother Camiola character charm colours confess COUNTESS death delicacy dignity disguise drama Duchesse de Longueville earth eloquence exquisite eyes faculties fair fancy father fear feeling female feminine FERDINAND gentle grace Hamlet hath heart heaven Helena honour horror human imagination impression innocence intellect Isabel Isabella Lady Lady Macbeth less look lord lover Madame de Staël maid marriage MEDON ment mercy mind Miranda moral mother nature ness never noble nurse o'er Olivia once Ophelia passion Perdita perfect picture pity placed play poetical poetry POLONIUS Portia racter romance Romeo and Juliet Rosalind Roussillon scene Schlegel scorn sense sensibility sentiment Shak Shakspeare Shakspeare's Shylock simplicity soft soul speak spirit sweet temper tenderness thee Thekla things thou thought tion touch truth Twelfth Night vanity Viola virtue whole woman women word young youth
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Página 237 - I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that...
Página 168 - Thou mayst prove false: at lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo ! If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully: Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond; And therefore thou mayst think my 'haviour light: But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
Página 93 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Página 238 - 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?
Página 113 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway : It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Página 240 - Give me those flowers there, Dorcas. — Reverend sirs, For you there's rosemary and rue ; these keep Seeming and savour all the Winter long : Grace and remembrance be to you both,7 And welcome to our shearing ! Polix.
Página 12 - 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.
Página 115 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; Nothing but thunder.
Página 114 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Página 168 - I should have been more strange, I must confess, But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware, My true love's passion: therefore pardon me, And not impute this yielding to light love, Which the dark night hath so discovered.