Select Plays; A Midsummer Night's DreamClarendon Press, 1879 - 147 pages |
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Page vii
... reference is to the death of Greene . Rejecting the supposition of Warton that Shakespeare here ' alluded to Spenser's poem entitled " The Teares of the Muses , on the neglect and contempt of learning , " " ' which appeared in 1591 , he ...
... reference is to the death of Greene . Rejecting the supposition of Warton that Shakespeare here ' alluded to Spenser's poem entitled " The Teares of the Muses , on the neglect and contempt of learning , " " ' which appeared in 1591 , he ...
Page ix
... reference to a bill which was introduced into parliament in 1597 for depriving offenders of clergy who should be found guilty of taking away women against their wills . This is certainly the weakest of all the proofs by which Chalmers ...
... reference to a bill which was introduced into parliament in 1597 for depriving offenders of clergy who should be found guilty of taking away women against their wills . This is certainly the weakest of all the proofs by which Chalmers ...
Page xxiii
... reference to the ' middle - summer's spring ' must therefore be to the summer of the preceding year . It is a curious fact , on which however I would not lay too much stress , that in 1592 there was a new moon on the 1st of May ; so ...
... reference to the ' middle - summer's spring ' must therefore be to the summer of the preceding year . It is a curious fact , on which however I would not lay too much stress , that in 1592 there was a new moon on the 1st of May ; so ...
Page 71
... reference to the other meaning of the word ' to pour . ' In this sense ' teem ' is still used in the North and East of England . 134 & c . Bishop Newton in his edition of Milton called attention to the resemblance between Lysander's ...
... reference to the other meaning of the word ' to pour . ' In this sense ' teem ' is still used in the North and East of England . 134 & c . Bishop Newton in his edition of Milton called attention to the resemblance between Lysander's ...
Page 73
... 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 gather May - dew while SC . I. ] 73 A MIDSUMMER ...
... 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 gather May - dew while SC . I. ] 73 A MIDSUMMER ...
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