A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, Etc., Whcih Have Been Thought to Require Illustration, in the Works of English Authors, Particularly Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, Volume 1Reeves and Turner, 1901 - English language |
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alluded allusion arms ballad Bartas Bartholomew Fair Ben Jonson called Cartwright's Chapm Chaucer cittern common corruption Cotgrave cut-work dance derived devil Dictionarie doth Drayt Drayton drink Du Bartas Du Cange Engl Euphues eyes fair Fairf following passage fool Francion French Gism give gleek Greene's Tu Quoque Haml hand hath head Hence Heywood's Holinsh Holland's Ammianus Marcellinus Honest Whore horse Howell's Familiar Letters Hudibras Ibid Johnson Jons kind king knight lady Latin Lear lord Love's L. L. low Latin means meant merry Minshew Mirr Nomenclator Optick origin Othello Passenger of Benvenuto phrase play Poems Polyolb probably proverb Rich Saxon says seems sense Shakespeare shew sometimes Spens Spenser Steevens Suppl supposed sweet Tasso Taylor's Terence in English term thee thing thou tion Todd unto viii Withals word
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Page 249 - My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Page 214 - The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers, quite, quite down. And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music vows...
Page 30 - Give me leave. Here lies the water ; good : here stands the man ; good : If the man go to this water, and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes; mark you that: but if the water come to him, and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he, that is not guilty of his own death, shortens not his own life. 2 Clo. But is this law ? 1 Clo. Ay, marry is't ; crowner's-quest law. 2 Clo. Will you ha' the truth on't ? If this had not been a gentlewoman, she should have been buried out of Christian...
Page 438 - Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke ; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide ; And, mermaid-like, a while they bore her up : 'Which time, she chanted snatches of old tunes ; As one incapable of her own distress...
Page 392 - O this false soul of Egypt ! this grave charm, Whose eye beck'd forth my wars, and call'd them home, Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end, Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose, Beguil'd me to the very heart of loss.
Page 445 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Page 302 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Page 265 - Our nation," says Sir Henry Blount, in the preface to a collection of some of Lyly's dramatic pieces which he published in 1632, " are in his debt for a new English which he taught them. Euphues and his England...
Page 169 - The advised head defends itself at home : For government, though high and low and lower, Put into parts, doth keep in one consent, Congreeing in a full and natural close, Like music.
Page 277 - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music,) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells; so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find nothing of their sweetness; yea, though it be in a morning's dew.