The New Grant White Shakespeare: Love's labour's lost ; A midsummer night's dream ; The merchant of VeniceLittle, Brown,, 1912 |
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... recent editors ; but surely no intelligent and observant reader can need the aid of so eminent a critic to establish in him the belief that this play is among the first that Shakespeare wrote . No other seems to present so many claims ...
... recent editors ; but surely no intelligent and observant reader can need the aid of so eminent a critic to establish in him the belief that this play is among the first that Shakespeare wrote . No other seems to present so many claims ...
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... recent editors changed it to senior , thus de- 30 stroying , at once , Moth's pun on that word , and an important textual trait of the play . [ Cam- bridge accepts senior , with the accompanying loss . ] 29 ingenious . The folio has in ...
... recent editors changed it to senior , thus de- 30 stroying , at once , Moth's pun on that word , and an important textual trait of the play . [ Cam- bridge accepts senior , with the accompanying loss . ] 29 ingenious . The folio has in ...
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... recent editors ] gives these words to a Lord ; the folio assigns them to Ma . i . e . Maria , who is in haste to change the subject upon which the Prin- cess has begun to rally her ladies . Plainly an intentional ... change . ( w ) ...
... recent editors ] gives these words to a Lord ; the folio assigns them to Ma . i . e . Maria , who is in haste to change the subject upon which the Prin- cess has begun to rally her ladies . Plainly an intentional ... change . ( w ) ...
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... recent editors ] has whitly . But Rosaline was in no sense whitely . We are told again and again that she was the dark- 10 20 est of brunettes , and also that she was witty . [ Cambridge suggests wightly , nimble . ] 23 foul , plain ...
... recent editors ] has whitly . But Rosaline was in no sense whitely . We are told again and again that she was the dark- 10 20 est of brunettes , and also that she was witty . [ Cambridge suggests wightly , nimble . ] 23 foul , plain ...
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... recent editors ] has annothanize , which has been uni- versally and silently taken to be a corruption of anatomize . But considering the form of the word in the original , and that the Latin phrase is explained and com- mented upon , I ...
... recent editors ] has annothanize , which has been uni- versally and silently taken to be a corruption of anatomize . But considering the form of the word in the original , and that the Latin phrase is explained and com- mented upon , I ...
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Page 230 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen ; man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
Page 375 - Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils : The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Page 182 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music ? Puck.
Page 330 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? revenge ; If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Page 367 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that: You take my house , when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life , When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 335 - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished! Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes. With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
Page 123 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Page 120 - And I will have you, and -that fault withal ; But, if they will not, throw away that spirit, And I shall find you empty of that fault, Right joyful of your reformation.
Page 30 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished. So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Page 361 - 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.