Select Plays; A Midsummer Night's DreamClarendon Press, 1879 - 147 pages |
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Page xi
... Lost , The Two Gentlemen of Verona , Comedy of Errors , and Titus Andronicus . In 1593 , 1594 are placed Richard 1 But in the play the new moon is on Theseus ' wedding day , that is , the 1st of May ; and the kindness of Professor Adams ...
... Lost , The Two Gentlemen of Verona , Comedy of Errors , and Titus Andronicus . In 1593 , 1594 are placed Richard 1 But in the play the new moon is on Theseus ' wedding day , that is , the 1st of May ; and the kindness of Professor Adams ...
Page xxiii
... lost altogether . Titania's 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 ...
... lost altogether . Titania's 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 ...
Page 14
... lost his sweat , and the green corn Hath rotted ere his youth attain❜d a beard ; The fold stands empty in the drowned field , And crows are fatted with the murrion flock ; The nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud , And the quaint ...
... lost his sweat , and the green corn Hath rotted ere his youth attain❜d a beard ; The fold stands empty in the drowned field , And crows are fatted with the murrion flock ; The nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud , And the quaint ...
Page 30
... lost with their fears thus strong , Made senseless things begin to do them wrong ; For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch ; ΙΟ 20 Some sleeves , some hats , from yielders all things catch . 30 I led them on in this distracted ...
... lost with their fears thus strong , Made senseless things begin to do them wrong ; For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch ; ΙΟ 20 Some sleeves , some hats , from yielders all things catch . 30 I led them on in this distracted ...
Page 51
... lost sixpence a day during his life ; he could not have ' scaped sixpence a day : an the duke had not given him sixpence a day for playing Pyramus , I'll be hanged ; he would have deserved it : sixpence a day in Pyramus , or nothing ...
... lost sixpence a day during his life ; he could not have ' scaped sixpence a day : an the duke had not given him sixpence a day for playing Pyramus , I'll be hanged ; he would have deserved it : sixpence a day in Pyramus , or nothing ...
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