Select Plays; A Midsummer Night's DreamClarendon Press, 1879 - 147 pages |
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Page xiii
... English nobility who espoused her cause ; ' the Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland , who fell in her quarrel ; and principally the great Duke of Norfolk , whose projected marriage with her was attended with such fatal consequences ...
... English nobility who espoused her cause ; ' the Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland , who fell in her quarrel ; and principally the great Duke of Norfolk , whose projected marriage with her was attended with such fatal consequences ...
Page xv
... English fairies in combination with ' the heroes and heroines of the mythic age of Greece , ' but indeed Theseus is Greek in name only . He is an English nobleman , who after service in the wars has returned to his estate and his field ...
... English fairies in combination with ' the heroes and heroines of the mythic age of Greece , ' but indeed Theseus is Greek in name only . He is an English nobleman , who after service in the wars has returned to his estate and his field ...
Page xx
... English translation of this romance is known before that published by Yong in 1598 , there is no necessity to suppose that Shakespeare was indebted to any one for what must have been a familiar element in all incantations at a time when ...
... English translation of this romance is known before that published by Yong in 1598 , there is no necessity to suppose that Shakespeare was indebted to any one for what must have been a familiar element in all incantations at a time when ...
Page 73
... English poet from Chaucer to Tennyson is without a reference to the simple customs by which our ancestors celebrated the advent of the flowers . May - dew was held of virtue as a cosmetic . Mrs. Pepys would go to Woolwich for air and to ...
... English poet from Chaucer to Tennyson is without a reference to the simple customs by which our ancestors celebrated the advent of the flowers . May - dew was held of virtue as a cosmetic . Mrs. Pepys would go to Woolwich for air and to ...
Page 77
... English plural , which occurs again in ii . 2. 99 ; iii . 2. 138 ; v . I. 178. See also Venus and Adonis , 633 : 6 ' Nor thy soft hands , sweet lips and crystal eyne . ' In Shakespeare it is always used on account of the rhyme , except ...
... English plural , which occurs again in ii . 2. 99 ; iii . 2. 138 ; v . I. 178. See also Venus and Adonis , 633 : 6 ' Nor thy soft hands , sweet lips and crystal eyne . ' In Shakespeare it is always used on account of the rhyme , except ...
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