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The Mind of Shakspeare [sic], as Exhibited in His Works
The Mind of Shakspeare as Exhibited in His Works - sic Author:William Shakespeare Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: EARTHQUAKES THEIR CAUSES AND EFFECTS. Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions: oft the teeming earth Is with a kind of colic pinch... more »ed and vexed By the imprisoning of unruly wind Within her womb; which, for enlargement striving, Shakes the old beldam earth, and topples down Steeples and moss-grown towers. 1 Hen. IV. iii. 1. CHARACTERIZED. The babbling gossip of the air. Tw. Night, i. 5. EFFEMINACY ODIOUS IN A MAN. A woman, impudent and mannish grown, Is not more loathed than an effeminate man In time of action. Tr. $ Cress. iii. 3. ENDEAVOUR A HUMBLE ONE, DUTIFULLY TENDERED, SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED FOR ITS GOODWILL. Never anything can be amiss When simpleness and duty tender it;— And what poor duty cannot do Noble respect takes it in might, not merit. M. N. Dream, v. 1. GREAT ONES OFTEN ACHIEVED BY HUMBLE MEANS. Some kinds of baseness Are nobly undergone; and most poor matters Point to rich ends. Temp. iii. 1. ENEMIES TO BE KEPT IN AWE, RATHER THAN CONTENDED WITH. Be able for thine enemy Bather in power than use. M 'a Well, i. 1.ENEMIES SECRET ONES SHOULD BE WOOED, BECAUSE MOST DANGEROUS. How rarely does it meet with this time's guise, When man was wished f to love his enemies! Grant, I may ever love, and rather woo Those that would mischief me, than those that do! Tim. of Ath. iv. 3. Cherish those hearts that hate thee. Hen. VIII. iii. 2. ENERGY VERY DIFFERENT IN MEN; AND OFTEN, BY CONSEQUENCE, THEIR FORTUNES. O heavens, what some men do, While some men leave to do! How some men creep in skittish fortune's hall, While others play the idiots in her eyes! How one man eats into another's pride, While pride is fasting in his wantonness! Tr. $ Cress. iii. 3. ENGLAND ...« less