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Page xv
... wise ones are telling us that this is all wrong ; that teaching Shakespeare in this way is making , or tending to make , the study " an entertainment , " and so not the " noble study " that it ought to be ; meaning , I suppose , by ...
... wise ones are telling us that this is all wrong ; that teaching Shakespeare in this way is making , or tending to make , the study " an entertainment , " and so not the " noble study " that it ought to be ; meaning , I suppose , by ...
Page xvii
... wise in this , as in many other things , is leading the return to the older and better way . I hope most devoutly that it is so ; for the proper effect of the modern way can hardly be any other than to attenuate and chill and dwarf the ...
... wise in this , as in many other things , is leading the return to the older and better way . I hope most devoutly that it is so ; for the proper effect of the modern way can hardly be any other than to attenuate and chill and dwarf the ...
Page xix
... wise and wonderful ideas our progressive oblivion of the past is putting into people's heads ! Why , it has been , from time immemorial , a settled axiom , that the proper aim of poetry is to please , of the highest poetry , to make ...
... wise and wonderful ideas our progressive oblivion of the past is putting into people's heads ! Why , it has been , from time immemorial , a settled axiom , that the proper aim of poetry is to please , of the highest poetry , to make ...
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... wise friends to advise him touching the distribution of his prop- erty among his three sons . They advise him to settle all his lands on the eldest , and leave the youngest without any thing . Gamelyn , the youngest , being his ...
... wise friends to advise him touching the distribution of his prop- erty among his three sons . They advise him to settle all his lands on the eldest , and leave the youngest without any thing . Gamelyn , the youngest , being his ...
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... wise too , and full of the most insinuative counsel . How choicely does his grave , acute nonsense moralize the scenes wherein he moves ! Professed clown though he be , and as such ever hammering away with artful awkwardness at a jest ...
... wise too , and full of the most insinuative counsel . How choicely does his grave , acute nonsense moralize the scenes wherein he moves ! Professed clown though he be , and as such ever hammering away with artful awkwardness at a jest ...
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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.