The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere, Volume 1Charles Knight, 1851 |
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... original . It is , in all proba- bility , a play written very early in Shak- spere's life . The scene of this play is , in the first act , at Verona , and afterwards chiefly at Milan . The action is not founded upon any histori- cal ...
... original . It is , in all proba- bility , a play written very early in Shak- spere's life . The scene of this play is , in the first act , at Verona , and afterwards chiefly at Milan . The action is not founded upon any histori- cal ...
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... thy grievance to my holy prayers , For I will be thy beadsman , Valentine ' . A In the original this proper name is invariably spelt Protheus . VAL . And on a love - book pray for. [ Open Place in Verona . ] Enter VALENTINE and SPEED .
... thy grievance to my holy prayers , For I will be thy beadsman , Valentine ' . A In the original this proper name is invariably spelt Protheus . VAL . And on a love - book pray for. [ Open Place in Verona . ] Enter VALENTINE and SPEED .
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... original copy reads , " I love myself . " The present reading was introduced by Pope . Sheep is pronounced ship in many English counties ; hence Speed's small jest . Mr. Collier observes that in writings of the time " Sheep - street ...
... original copy reads , " I love myself . " The present reading was introduced by Pope . Sheep is pronounced ship in many English counties ; hence Speed's small jest . Mr. Collier observes that in writings of the time " Sheep - street ...
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... original text , were introduced by Theobald . The stage - direction , " Speed nods , " is also modern . • I - the old spelling of the affirmative particle Ay . The second folio changes the passage to " her mind . " The first gives it ...
... original text , were introduced by Theobald . The stage - direction , " Speed nods , " is also modern . • I - the old spelling of the affirmative particle Ay . The second folio changes the passage to " her mind . " The first gives it ...
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... original French parole . Censure - give an opinion - a meaning which repeatedly occurs . * Fire is here used as a dissyllable . When the reader has a key to the reading of such words— fier , hou - er — he may dispense with the notes ...
... original French parole . Censure - give an opinion - a meaning which repeatedly occurs . * Fire is here used as a dissyllable . When the reader has a key to the reading of such words— fier , hou - er — he may dispense with the notes ...
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Antipholus Antonio Appears BASS Bassanio Bianca BIRON BOYET Costard daughter Demetrius dost doth Dromio ducats DUKE Enter Ephesus Exeunt Exit eyes fair father folio fool gentle gentleman give grace Grumio hath hear heart heaven Helena Hermia honour Hortensio Kate KATH KATHARINA KING lady LAUN letter look lord Love's Labour's Lost Lucentio Lysander madam maid marry master mean Merchant of Venice mistress MOTH never night oath original Padua passage Petrucio play Pompey Portia pray Proteus PUCK Pyramus quartos reading ring Rousillon SCENE second folio servant Shakspere Shakspere's Shylock signior Silvia sirrah speak SPEED Steevens sweet tell thee Theseus thine thou art thou hast Thurio Titania Tranio unto Valentine Venice wife word
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Page 221 - 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 436 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 469 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was : man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was — there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, — and methought I had, — but man is but a patched fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had.
Page 532 - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes ? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions ? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is ? If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew...
Page 220 - 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...
Page 191 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Page 584 - This book is a preservation photocopy. It is made in compliance with copyright law and produced on acid-free archival 60# book weight paper which meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (permanence of paper) Preservation photocopying and binding by Acme Bookbinding Charlestown, Massachusetts...