The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage, Volume 6 |
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Captain Breval in his Travels tells us , that he saw at Verona the tomb of these unhappy lovers . STEEVENS . This story was well known to the English poets before the time of Shakspeare . In an old collection of poems , called A ...
Captain Breval in his Travels tells us , that he saw at Verona the tomb of these unhappy lovers . STEEVENS . This story was well known to the English poets before the time of Shakspeare . In an old collection of poems , called A ...
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From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star - cross'd lovers take their life ; Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows Do , with their death , bury their parents ' strife . The fearful passage of their death - mark'd love ...
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star - cross'd lovers take their life ; Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows Do , with their death , bury their parents ' strife . The fearful passage of their death - mark'd love ...
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Love is a smoke rais'd * with the fume of sighs ; Being purg'd , a fire sparkling in lovers ' eyes ' ; Being vex'd , a sea nourish'd with lovers ' tears : What is it else ? a madness most discreet , A choking gall , and a preserving ...
Love is a smoke rais'd * with the fume of sighs ; Being purg'd , a fire sparkling in lovers ' eyes ' ; Being vex'd , a sea nourish'd with lovers ' tears : What is it else ? a madness most discreet , A choking gall , and a preserving ...
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Of all afflictions taught a lover yet , " " Tis sure the hardest science , to forget . " Pope's Eloisa . STEEVENS . 1 AND Montague is bound- ] This speech is not in the first quarto . That of 1599 has - But Montague .
Of all afflictions taught a lover yet , " " Tis sure the hardest science , to forget . " Pope's Eloisa . STEEVENS . 1 AND Montague is bound- ] This speech is not in the first quarto . That of 1599 has - But Montague .
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66 " Hit bifelle by twyxte marche and maye , " Whan kynde corage begynneth to pryke : " Whan frith and felde wexen gaye , " And every wight desirith his like ; " When lovers slepen with opyn yee , " As nightingalis on grene tre ...
66 " Hit bifelle by twyxte marche and maye , " Whan kynde corage begynneth to pryke : " Whan frith and felde wexen gaye , " And every wight desirith his like ; " When lovers slepen with opyn yee , " As nightingalis on grene tre ...
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