Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1847 |
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... probably have been written before he removed to London , -and before , or not long after , his twentieth year . The Two GEN- TLEMEN OF VERONA , if not his earliest comedy , was in all probability written in the same , or at least the ...
... probably have been written before he removed to London , -and before , or not long after , his twentieth year . The Two GEN- TLEMEN OF VERONA , if not his earliest comedy , was in all probability written in the same , or at least the ...
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... probably excite as a mere literary performance , because it exhibits to us the great dramatist at a most interesting point in his career ; giving striking , but imperfect and irregular , indications of his future powers . This play was ...
... probably excite as a mere literary performance , because it exhibits to us the great dramatist at a most interesting point in his career ; giving striking , but imperfect and irregular , indications of his future powers . This play was ...
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... probably the Milan caps or bonnets of which we hear so much in wardrobe accounts , and other records of the time . They were sometimes slashed and puffed round the edges , and adorned with ' points ' or ' aglets , ' i . e . tags or ...
... probably the Milan caps or bonnets of which we hear so much in wardrobe accounts , and other records of the time . They were sometimes slashed and puffed round the edges , and adorned with ' points ' or ' aglets , ' i . e . tags or ...
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... probably derived from an old custom of rustic merriment at harvest - home feasts . " However , but a folly bought with wit " -In whatso- ever way , " haply won , " or " lost . " " as in the sweetest bud The eating canker dwells , " etc ...
... probably derived from an old custom of rustic merriment at harvest - home feasts . " However , but a folly bought with wit " -In whatso- ever way , " haply won , " or " lost . " " as in the sweetest bud The eating canker dwells , " etc ...
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... probably derived from that ancient show . " -for he , being in love , could not see to garter his hose " -At the period of this play , garters of great mag- nificence appeared around the large slashed hose , both above and below the ...
... probably derived from that ancient show . " -for he , being in love , could not see to garter his hose " -At the period of this play , garters of great mag- nificence appeared around the large slashed hose , both above and below the ...
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 3 John Payne Collier,Charles Knight No preview available - 2015 |
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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.