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... rhymes with moone , ' we may learn that it was pro- nounced Beroon . In a note on this line , Boswell remarks that Mr Fox in the House of Commons said Toidoon when speaking of Toulon . ' In 1594 Nashe issued a new edition of his Teares ...
... rhymes with moone , ' we may learn that it was pro- nounced Beroon . In a note on this line , Boswell remarks that Mr Fox in the House of Commons said Toidoon when speaking of Toulon . ' In 1594 Nashe issued a new edition of his Teares ...
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... rhyme : — ' O would the king , Berowne and Longauill , Were louers too , ill to example ill .'— IV , iii , 128 ; ' You doe not loue Maria ? Longauile , Did never Sonnet for her sake compile .'— IV , iii , 138 ; This and these Pearls ...
... rhyme : — ' O would the king , Berowne and Longauill , Were louers too , ill to example ill .'— IV , iii , 128 ; ' You doe not loue Maria ? Longauile , Did never Sonnet for her sake compile .'— IV , iii , 138 ; This and these Pearls ...
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... rhymes with ' debt . ' 7. Macard ] The spelling of this name is an unhappy commentary on the vaunted thoroughness with which the editors before Capell examined the original texts . What was , I cannot but believe , a mere misprint in ...
... rhymes with ' debt . ' 7. Macard ] The spelling of this name is an unhappy commentary on the vaunted thoroughness with which the editors before Capell examined the original texts . What was , I cannot but believe , a mere misprint in ...
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... rhyme with thine ' in IV , iii , 236. In Rom . d jul . II , iii , 43 , it rhymes with ' mine . ' In As You Like It , III , ii , 100- III , Rosalind ' rhymes with kind , bind , rinde , finde . Fleay { Shakespeare and Puritanism , Anglia ...
... rhyme with thine ' in IV , iii , 236. In Rom . d jul . II , iii , 43 , it rhymes with ' mine . ' In As You Like It , III , ii , 100- III , Rosalind ' rhymes with kind , bind , rinde , finde . Fleay { Shakespeare and Puritanism , Anglia ...
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... the Tapster in Measure for Measure ; and the frequency of the rhymes , the sweetness as well as the smoothness of the metre , [ 3. Enter , etc. ] and the number of ACT I , SC . i . ] II LOUES LABOUR'S LOST [3. Enter, etc.] ...
... the Tapster in Measure for Measure ; and the frequency of the rhymes , the sweetness as well as the smoothness of the metre , [ 3. Enter , etc. ] and the number of ACT I , SC . i . ] II LOUES LABOUR'S LOST [3. Enter, etc.] ...
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Page 62 - That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Page 28 - My good Child, know this, that thou art not able to do these things of thyself, nor to walk in the Commandments of God, and to serve him, without his special grace ; which thou must learn at all times to call for by diligent prayer.
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Page 184 - You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light ; You common people of the skies ; What are you when the moon shall rise?
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