Shakespeare's Comedy of Measure for MeasureHarper & Brothers, 1899 - 143 páginas |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... of St. Clare , yet a wider range of usefulness and benevolence , of trial and action , was better suited to the large capacity , the ardent affections , the energetic intellect , and firm principle of such a woman 24 MEASURE FOR MEASURE .
... of St. Clare , yet a wider range of usefulness and benevolence , of trial and action , was better suited to the large capacity , the ardent affections , the energetic intellect , and firm principle of such a woman 24 MEASURE FOR MEASURE .
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... better post , heading Heaven's army in her land , than praying bar- ren prayers in convent walls . She is the first of the three splendid women who illumine the dark Third Period : she , glorious for her purity and righteousness ...
... better post , heading Heaven's army in her land , than praying bar- ren prayers in convent walls . She is the first of the three splendid women who illumine the dark Third Period : she , glorious for her purity and righteousness ...
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... better knows than you How I have ever lov'd the life remov'd , And held in idle price to haunt assemblies Where youth , and cost , and witless bravery keeps . I have deliver'd to Lord Angelo , A man of stricture and firm abstinence , My ...
... better knows than you How I have ever lov'd the life remov'd , And held in idle price to haunt assemblies Where youth , and cost , and witless bravery keeps . I have deliver'd to Lord Angelo , A man of stricture and firm abstinence , My ...
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... better for you . Pompey . Truly , sir , I am a poor fellow that would live . 210 Escalus . How would you live , Pompey ? by being a bawd ? ' What do you think of the trade , Pompey ? is it a lawful trade ? Pompey . If the law would ...
... better for you . Pompey . Truly , sir , I am a poor fellow that would live . 210 Escalus . How would you live , Pompey ? by being a bawd ? ' What do you think of the trade , Pompey ? is it a lawful trade ? Pompey . If the law would ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
1st folio Abhorson Andrugio Barnardine bawd beauty brother Camb Capell Cassandra character Cinthio Clarke Claudio Coll Concupiscent conjectures Cymb death deputy dost doth Duke duke's edition Elbow ellipsis emendation Escalus evil Exeunt Exit fault fear folio reads Friar Peter gelo Gentleman give grace hanged Hanmer reads hast hath hear heart heaven hither honour Isabel Isabella Johnson Juliet justice lapwing later folios Lear Lord Angelo Lover's Complaint Lucio maid Malone Mariana marriage marry Master Froth meaning Measure for Measure mercy mind Mistress moral nature offence Othello Overdone pardon passage play Pompey Pope reads Portia pray prison Promos Provost Re-enter SCENE Schmidt seems sense Shakespeare sister slander soul speak spirit strange tapster Temp thee Theo thing thou art to-morrow tongue truth Twelfth Night vice Vienna virtue Warb What's wife woman word worth is able
Passagens conhecidas
Página 21 - 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 sceptered 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 21 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Página 63 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Página 77 - The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Página 38 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Página 22 - 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 64 - 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 79 - To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling...
Página 47 - with envy ; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone : hence shall we see, If power change purpose, what our seemers be.
Página 44 - ... tis just. Re-enter Lucio and two Gentlemen. Lucio. Why, how now, Claudio ! whence comes this restraint ? Claud. From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty : As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue, Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, A thirsty evil ; and when we drink we die.