The Works of Shakespeare: A midsummer-night's dreamMethuen, 1905 |
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... Q I runs as follows : - " A | Midsommer nights dreame . | As it hath beene fundry times pub- | lickely acted , by the Right honoura- | ble , the Lord a Chamberlaine his | feruants . | Written by William Shake- INTRODUCTION xili.
... Q I runs as follows : - " A | Midsommer nights dreame . | As it hath beene fundry times pub- | lickely acted , by the Right honoura- | ble , the Lord a Chamberlaine his | feruants . | Written by William Shake- INTRODUCTION xili.
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... Lord 1593 and 1594 " ) : " The moneths of the year haue not yet gone about , wherein the Lord hath bowed the heauens , and come down amongst vs with more tokens and earnests of his wrath intended , then the agedst man of our land is ...
... Lord 1593 and 1594 " ) : " The moneths of the year haue not yet gone about , wherein the Lord hath bowed the heauens , and come down amongst vs with more tokens and earnests of his wrath intended , then the agedst man of our land is ...
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... Lord of light . Of course , evidence of this kind cannot be in any sense conclusive , but it affords , I think , a striking example of Shakespeare's skill and business ability in taking advantage , for dramatic purposes , of current or ...
... Lord of light . Of course , evidence of this kind cannot be in any sense conclusive , but it affords , I think , a striking example of Shakespeare's skill and business ability in taking advantage , for dramatic purposes , of current or ...
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... Lord the Earle of Leicester late deceased . " The significance of the last words of this dedication will appear when it is remembered that Leicester died in 1588 , the year of the Armada . If Spenser could refer to him as " late ...
... Lord the Earle of Leicester late deceased . " The significance of the last words of this dedication will appear when it is remembered that Leicester died in 1588 , the year of the Armada . If Spenser could refer to him as " late ...
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... Lord Strange , and by the death of his father in September 1593 , and of his brother Ferdinand in April 1594 , he became sixth Earl of Derby . Next year he married Elizabeth Vere , daughter of the Earl of Oxford , and Stowe , in his ...
... Lord Strange , and by the death of his father in September 1593 , and of his brother Ferdinand in April 1594 , he became sixth Earl of Derby . Next year he married Elizabeth Vere , daughter of the Earl of Oxford , and Stowe , in his ...
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Page 132 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; •• Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear?
Page 9 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Page 127 - Methought I was, and methought I had — but man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought I had. 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 127 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.
Page 94 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet...
Page 131 - The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact : One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name.
Page 13 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Page 14 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 48 - 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.
Page xxvi - The thrice three muses mourning for the death Of learning, late deceased in beggary.