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Hamlet, and As You Like it: A Specimen of a New Edition of Shakespeare - Page 114
by William Shakespeare - 1819 - 466 pages
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 530 pages
...Freshly on me." THEOBALD. The latter emendation may derive its support from a passage in Hamlet : " How stand I then, " That have a father kill'd, a mother...stain'd, " Excitements of my reason and my blood, " Andlet nil sleep?" -' If slip be the true reading, (which, however, I do not believe,) the sense...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - Theater - 1823 - 490 pages
...danger, dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great argument ; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's...fame, Go to their graves like beds ; fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough, and continent, To hide the slain...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 558 pages
...cowardly scruple. Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great, Is, riot to stir without great argument;9 But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's...of fame, Go to their graves like beds ; fight for a ploti Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough, and continent, 2 To hide...
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The Plays, Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 pages
...danger, dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great argument ; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's...fame, Go to their graves like beds ; fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough, and continent, To hide the slain...
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The Beauties of Shakespeare: Selected from Each Play : with a General Index ...

William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...and danger, dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great argument; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's...fame, Go to their graves like beds; fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough, and continent To hide the slain?—O,...
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...slander's venom'd spear ; The which no balm can cure, but his heart's-blood Which breath'd this poison. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother...fame, Go to their graves like beds ; fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough, and continent, To hide the slain...
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The dramatic works of Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson and Stevens [sic ...

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 486 pages
...great argument; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, [theu, When honour's at the stake. How stiiud I That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, Excitements...twenty thousand men, That, for a fantasy, and trick of faint-, Go to tlieir graves like buds; fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...danger, dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great argument ; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's...then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, EKcitements of my reason, and my blood, And let all sleep ? while, to my shame, I see The imminent...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, with notes ..., Part 25, Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 pages
...and danger, dare, Even for an egg shell. Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great argument; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, "When honour's...mother stain'd, Excitements of my reason, and my blood 7 , And let all sleep? while, to my shame, I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for...
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Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 642 pages
...danger, dare, Even for an egg shell. Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great argument ; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's...a mother stain'd, Excitements of my reason, and my blood7, And let all sleep ? while, to my shame, 1 see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That,...
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