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... charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds . " The Irish fairies occasionally inhabited the ancient burial- places known as tumuli or barrows , while some of the Scot- tish fairies took up their abode under the " door ...
... charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds . " The Irish fairies occasionally inhabited the ancient burial- places known as tumuli or barrows , while some of the Scot- tish fairies took up their abode under the " door ...
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... charm . " 2 That the fairies , however , were fond of indulging in mis- chievous sport at the expense of mortals is beyond all doubt , the merry pranks of Puck or Robin Goodfellow fully illustrating this item of our fairy - lore . Thus ...
... charm . " 2 That the fairies , however , were fond of indulging in mis- chievous sport at the expense of mortals is beyond all doubt , the merry pranks of Puck or Robin Goodfellow fully illustrating this item of our fairy - lore . Thus ...
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... charm . " In spite , too , of their being able to assume the form of any animal at pleasure , the tail was always wanting . In " Macbeth " ( i . 3 ) , the first witch says : " And , like a rat without a tail , I'll do , I'll do , and I ...
... charm . " In spite , too , of their being able to assume the form of any animal at pleasure , the tail was always wanting . In " Macbeth " ( i . 3 ) , the first witch says : " And , like a rat without a tail , I'll do , I'll do , and I ...
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... charm the air to give a sound While you perform your antic round . " Witches also were supposed to have the power of vanish- ing at will , a notion referred to in " Macbeth " ( i . 3 ) , where , in reply to Banquo's inquiry as to ...
... charm the air to give a sound While you perform your antic round . " Witches also were supposed to have the power of vanish- ing at will , a notion referred to in " Macbeth " ( i . 3 ) , where , in reply to Banquo's inquiry as to ...
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... charms ? " And he then further adds : " Look how I am bewitch'd ; behold mine arm Is , like a blasted sapling , wither'd up : And this is Edward's wife , that monstrous witch , Consorted with that harlot , strumpet Shore , That by their ...
... charms ? " And he then further adds : " Look how I am bewitch'd ; behold mine arm Is , like a blasted sapling , wither'd up : And this is Edward's wife , that monstrous witch , Consorted with that harlot , strumpet Shore , That by their ...
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According All's alluded allusion ancient Antiq Antony and Cleopatra appears bird blood Brand's Pop called charm Clown Coriolanus custom Cymbeline dance days gone death devil doth Douce Douce's Illustrations Duke Dyce Dyce's Glossary exclaims eyes fairy Falstaff flowers Folk-Lore following passage formerly Gloster Hamlet Handbook Index hang hath hawk Hence Henry IV Henry VI Henry VIII Illustrations of Shakespeare Index to Shakespeare Jonson's Julius Cæsar King John King Lear Lady lord Love's Labour's Lost Macbeth mentioned Merchant of Venice Merry Wives Midsummer-Night's Dream moon Nares's Glossary notion occurs Othello phrase play popular probably proverb Puck Queen quotes refers Richard Richard III ring Romeo and Juliet says Shakespeare's day Shrew Singer's Shakespeare song speaks spirits superstition supposed Taming tells Tempest term thee thou tion Titus Andronicus Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night wind Winter's Tale Witchcraft witches Wives of Windsor word
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Página 516 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets : As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun, and the moist star, Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands, Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse...
Página 517 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down ; and, as they say, Lamentings heard i...
Página 368 - tis a lost fear ; Man but a rush against Othello's breast, And he retires ; — Where should Othello go ? — Now, how dost thou look now ? O ill-starr'd wench ! Pale as thy smock ! when we shall meet at compt, This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven, And fiends will snatch at it.
Página 33 - I conjure you, by that which you profess, Howe'er you come to know it, answer me: Though you untie the winds and let them fight Against the churches; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders...
Página 296 - Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Página 152 - With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave. Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured harebell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath : the ruddock would.
Página 66 - These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us : though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects : love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide : in cities, mutinies ; in countries, discord ; in palaces, treason ; and the bond cracked 'twixt son and father.
Página 123 - element,' but the word is over-worn. \Exit. Vio. This fellow is wise enough to play the fool ; And to do that well craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye.
Página 468 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume : the sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite : Therefore love moderately ; long love doth so ; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
Página 368 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; 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 region of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...