The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: A midsummer-nights dream. Merchant of VeniceGinn & Heath, 1880 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Antonio Athens Bass Bassanio Belmont blood bond called casket chooseth Christian Collier's second folio dear Demetrius doth ducats Duke Dyce Enter Exeunt Exit eyes Faerie Queene fair fairy father fear flesh fortune gentle give Gobbo grace Gratiano hate hath hear heart Heaven Helena Hermia Hippolyta Jessica Julius Cæsar King King Lear lady Laun Launcelot Lettsom lion look lord Lorenzo lovers Lysander master means Merchant of Venice merry mind Moon Nerissa never night o'er oath Oberon old copies read old text Paper Cover PHILOSTRATE phrase play Poet Poet's Portia pray thee Puck Pyramus Pyramus and Thisbe quartos Quin ring Salar SALARINO SCENE sense Shakespeare shalt Shylock sing sleep Solan SOLANIO soul speak swear sweet tell Theseus thing Thisbe Three thousand ducats Tita Titania true unto Venice word
Passagens conhecidas
Página 129 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there where merchants most do congregate, On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift, Which he calls interest.
Página 119 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice : His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Página 198 - 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 30 - That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And...
Página 132 - Shylock, we would have moneys': you say so; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold : moneys is your suit. What should I say to you ? Should I not say ' Hath a dog money ? is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats...
Página 122 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes
Página 209 - The moon shines bright : in such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees And they did make no noise, in such a night Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Página 212 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
Página 76 - Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact; One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman; the lover, all as frantic. Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt; The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling.
Página 92 - Puck. If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, 420 Gentles, do not reprehend...