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Page viii
... Comedy of Errors and The Second Part of Henry VI . , or The Phonix and the Turtle between The Merry Wives and Twelfth Night . To write the annals of a mind so versatile and flexible as Shake- speare's is not quite the same thing as to ...
... Comedy of Errors and The Second Part of Henry VI . , or The Phonix and the Turtle between The Merry Wives and Twelfth Night . To write the annals of a mind so versatile and flexible as Shake- speare's is not quite the same thing as to ...
Page ix
... comedy ' had been for half a century the sport of contending associations . Humanism strove to give them rigorous and well - defined meanings . For men like Udall and Sackville Tragedy was the tragedy of Seneca , Comedy the comedy of ...
... comedy ' had been for half a century the sport of contending associations . Humanism strove to give them rigorous and well - defined meanings . For men like Udall and Sackville Tragedy was the tragedy of Seneca , Comedy the comedy of ...
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... comedy ' were still felt . But the more prevalent effect of the disparity was a steady relaxation of the definite meaning of both terms , which allowed them to embrace between them almost the entire field of English dramatic effort ...
... comedy ' were still felt . But the more prevalent effect of the disparity was a steady relaxation of the definite meaning of both terms , which allowed them to embrace between them almost the entire field of English dramatic effort ...
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... Comedy , the ' History ' retained its separate and sturdy identity until the end of the century , mainly by virtue of the keen interest in the national past to which it ministered . For it was pre - eminently English history with which ...
... Comedy , the ' History ' retained its separate and sturdy identity until the end of the century , mainly by virtue of the keen interest in the national past to which it ministered . For it was pre - eminently English history with which ...
Page xii
... Comedy and the crudity of ' History ' vital and organic forms of art . Tragedy centred , with him , not in the horror of sensational crime relieved by barren laughter , but in the profound pity stirred by the ruinous discords between ...
... Comedy and the crudity of ' History ' vital and organic forms of art . Tragedy centred , with him , not in the horror of sensational crime relieved by barren laughter , but in the profound pity stirred by the ruinous discords between ...
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Page 118 - Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose influence is begot of that loose grace Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools : A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Page 329 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Page 272 - Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her ? Holy, fair, and wise is she, The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be. Is she kind as she is fair ? For beauty lives with kindness : Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness ; And, being help'd, inhabits there. Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling : She excels each mortal thing, Upon the dull earth dwelling : To her let us garlands bring.
Page 120 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Page 368 - I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear With hounds of Sparta : never did I hear Such gallant chiding; for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
Page 120 - 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 119 - Cuckoo, cuckoo : O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! 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...
Page 323 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be: In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours: I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Page 314 - Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night. That in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, " Behold ! " The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 374 - More strange than true : I never may believe These antique fables nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact.