Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1847 |
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... Italy at the commence- ment of the sixteenth century , which has been made familiar to us by the well - known portraits of the contempo- rary monarchs , Francis I. and Henry VIII . He tells us they wore a sort of diadem surmounted by a ...
... Italy at the commence- ment of the sixteenth century , which has been made familiar to us by the well - known portraits of the contempo- rary monarchs , Francis I. and Henry VIII . He tells us they wore a sort of diadem surmounted by a ...
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... Italian dominions . of them were crowned kings of Italy at Milan , before they received the imperial crown at Rome . Nor has the Poet fallen into any contradiction by giving a duke to Milan , at the same time that the emperor held his ...
... Italian dominions . of them were crowned kings of Italy at Milan , before they received the imperial crown at Rome . Nor has the Poet fallen into any contradiction by giving a duke to Milan , at the same time that the emperor held his ...
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... Italian language ; and in various forms and additions , more or less farcical , the subject has kept possession of the Italian stage . There is also a Spanish version of it about the date of the COMEDY OF ERRORS . In France , Rotrou ...
... Italian language ; and in various forms and additions , more or less farcical , the subject has kept possession of the Italian stage . There is also a Spanish version of it about the date of the COMEDY OF ERRORS . In France , Rotrou ...
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... Italian painters . ” — MR . PLANCHE , in “ Pictorial Shakespeare . ” * Mention is certainly not made of Henry IV .: there is a supposed allusion to him . PERSONS REPRESENTED . SOLINUS , Duke of EPHESUS . EGEON INTRODUCTORY REMARKS .
... Italian painters . ” — MR . PLANCHE , in “ Pictorial Shakespeare . ” * Mention is certainly not made of Henry IV .: there is a supposed allusion to him . PERSONS REPRESENTED . SOLINUS , Duke of EPHESUS . EGEON INTRODUCTORY REMARKS .
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... Italy of his own times , and to interweave with its incidents some circumstances from a play of Ariosto's , of a simi- lar plot , ( the " Suppositi , " ) some time before translated and published ( in 1566 ) under the title of " The ...
... Italy of his own times , and to interweave with its incidents some circumstances from a play of Ariosto's , of a simi- lar plot , ( the " Suppositi , " ) some time before translated and published ( in 1566 ) under the title of " The ...
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Page 25 - 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 38 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!
Page 32 - Have waked their sleepers ; oped, and let them forth By my so potent art. But this rough magic I here abjure ; and, when I have requir'd Some heavenly music, (which even now I do) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Page 45 - Will in that station, was the faint, general, and almost lost ideas, he had of having once seen him act a part in one of his own comedies, wherein being to personate a decrepit old man, he wore a long beard, and appeared so weak and drooping and unable to walk, that he was forced to be supported and carried by another person to a table, at which he was seated among some company who were eating, and one of them sung a song.