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Page vi
... cause their natural gifts and fitness for the business are so superior to mine , that they might readily be extemporized into what no length of time and study could possibly educate me . In all this the three gentlemen aforesaid are , I ...
... cause their natural gifts and fitness for the business are so superior to mine , that they might readily be extemporized into what no length of time and study could possibly educate me . In all this the three gentlemen aforesaid are , I ...
Page ix
... causing the mind to gravitate towards what is good , and to recoil from what is bad : it may end in bringing , say , one in two millions to " know Shakespeare in an eminent sense " ; but it can hardly fail to be a precious and fruitful ...
... causing the mind to gravitate towards what is good , and to recoil from what is bad : it may end in bringing , say , one in two millions to " know Shakespeare in an eminent sense " ; but it can hardly fail to be a precious and fruitful ...
Page xix
... cause pleasure ; what merely grubs in its outskirts and suburbs is apt to be tedious and dull . Assuredly , therefore , if a teacher finds that his or her pupils , or any of them , cannot be wooed and won to take pleasure in the study ...
... cause pleasure ; what merely grubs in its outskirts and suburbs is apt to be tedious and dull . Assuredly , therefore , if a teacher finds that his or her pupils , or any of them , cannot be wooed and won to take pleasure in the study ...
Page 11
... cause the clumsy methods of criti- cism are little able to give them expression . Subtile indeed must be the analysis that should reproduce them to the intel- lect without help from the Dramatic Art . Properly speaking , the play has no ...
... cause the clumsy methods of criti- cism are little able to give them expression . Subtile indeed must be the analysis that should reproduce them to the intel- lect without help from the Dramatic Art . Properly speaking , the play has no ...
Page 13
... causing others to forget , his nobility of rank ; he is every way just such a man as all true men would choose for their best friend . His persecuting brother , talking to himself , describes him as " never school'd , and yet learned ...
... causing others to forget , his nobility of rank ; he is every way just such a man as all true men would choose for their best friend . His persecuting brother , talking to himself , describes him as " never school'd , and yet learned ...
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Adam AMIENS Audrey banished Batrachite bear beard Beau Ben Jonson better brother Celia Collier's second folio CORIN correction Court cousin daughter diest doth Duke F Dyce eminent sense Enter ORLANDO Enter ROSALIND Exeunt Exit eyes fair faith father Fool Forest of Arden Fortune Ganymede gentle give graces Hanmer hath heart Heigh-ho Hero and Leander hither honour humour Jaques Julius Cæsar know Shakespeare Lettsom live look lord lover marry matter means melancholy mind mistress Monsieur motley Fool nature never old text Oliver original reads Phebe phrase play Poet Poet's poetry pr'ythee pray priser pupils Rosader SCENE Shakespearians shepherd SILVIUS Sir Roland song speak sweet Tale of Gamelyn tell thee thing thou art thought Thrasonical Touch Touchstone verses wherein withal woman word wrestling young youth
Popular passages
Page 55 - Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page 76 - Although thy breath be rude. Heigh, ho ! sing, heigh, ho ! unto the green holly : Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly Then, heigh, ho, the holly ! This life is most jolly.
Page 5 - And, seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven, Unless you be possess'd with devilish spirits, You cannot but forbear to murder me.
Page 157 - It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion, and all made of wishes; All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance; And so am I for Phebe.
Page 71 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
Page 110 - Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night ; for good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont, and being taken with the cramp, was drowned, and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was — Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies ; men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Page 60 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed ! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat, but for promotion; And having that, do choke their service up Even with the having: it is not so with thee.
Page 53 - The seasons' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, — This is no flattery : these are counsellors, That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 96 - poetical ' is : is it honest in deed and word ? is it a true thing ? Touch.
Page 79 - Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good life ; but in respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well ; but in respect that it is private, it is a very vile life. Now, in respect it is in the fields, it pleaseth me well ; but in respect it is not in the Court, it is tedious.