Select Plays; A Midsummer Night's DreamClarendon Press, 1879 - 147 pages |
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... 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 enables me to state that the nearest new moon to May 1 , 1590 , was on April 23 , and that there was a ...
... 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 enables me to state that the nearest new moon to May 1 , 1590 , was on April 23 , and that there was a ...
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William Shakespeare. the Second , Richard the Third , King John , and in these years appeared Venus and Adonis and Lucrece . The Merchant of Venice is assigned to 1596 , and Henry the Fourth to 1597 . Besides these there are the three ...
William Shakespeare. the Second , Richard the Third , King John , and in these years appeared Venus and Adonis and Lucrece . The Merchant of Venice is assigned to 1596 , and Henry the Fourth to 1597 . Besides these there are the three ...
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... , is an old word for devil , and it is used in this sense in the Vision of Piers Ploughman , 11345 ( ed . T. Wright ) : ' Out of the poukes pondfold No maynprise may us fecche . ' And in the Romance of Richard Coer de Lion , xvi PREFACE .
... , is an old word for devil , and it is used in this sense in the Vision of Piers Ploughman , 11345 ( ed . T. Wright ) : ' Out of the poukes pondfold No maynprise may us fecche . ' And in the Romance of Richard Coer de Lion , xvi PREFACE .
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William Shakespeare. And in the Romance of Richard Coer de Lion , 4326 ( printed in Weber's Metrical Romances , vol . ii ) : ' He is no man he is a pouke . ' The Icelandic pûki is the same word , and in Friesland the kobold or domestic ...
William Shakespeare. And in the Romance of Richard Coer de Lion , 4326 ( printed in Weber's Metrical Romances , vol . ii ) : ' He is no man he is a pouke . ' The Icelandic pûki is the same word , and in Friesland the kobold or domestic ...
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... Richard Edwards , 1582 : ' Ye furies , all at once On me your torments trie Gripe me , you greedy griefs , And present pangues of death , You sisters three , with cruel handes With speed come stop my breath ! ' Certainly both in this ...
... Richard Edwards , 1582 : ' Ye furies , all at once On me your torments trie Gripe me , you greedy griefs , And present pangues of death , You sisters three , with cruel handes With speed come stop my breath ! ' Certainly both in this ...
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