Select Plays; A Midsummer Night's DreamClarendon Press, 1879 - 147 pages |
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... follows the outline of Boaden's theory , that we have in this description an allegorical account of what happened upon the occasion of Elizabeth's visit to Kenilworth , but pursues the allegory with a minuteness of detail which Boaden ...
... follows the outline of Boaden's theory , that we have in this description an allegorical account of what happened upon the occasion of Elizabeth's visit to Kenilworth , but pursues the allegory with a minuteness of detail which Boaden ...
Page xviii
... follows : ' Terrestrial devils are those lares , genii , faunes , satyrs , wood - nymphs , foliots , fairies , Robin Goodfellows , Trulli , & c . , which as they are most conversant with men , so they do them most harm . . . Some put ...
... follows : ' Terrestrial devils are those lares , genii , faunes , satyrs , wood - nymphs , foliots , fairies , Robin Goodfellows , Trulli , & c . , which as they are most conversant with men , so they do them most harm . . . Some put ...
Page xxi
... follows it appears that the play in question was A Midsummer Night's Dream , but there is evidently something wrong about the story , for the 27th of September in the year 1631 was on a Tuesday . Taking it however for what it is worth ...
... follows it appears that the play in question was A Midsummer Night's Dream , but there is evidently something wrong about the story , for the 27th of September in the year 1631 was on a Tuesday . Taking it however for what it is worth ...
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... follow you . [ Exeunt all but Lysander and Hermia . Lys . How now , my love ! why is your cheek so pale ? / How chance the roses there do fade so fast ? Her . Belike for want of rain , which I could well 130 Beteem them from the tempest ...
... follow you . [ Exeunt all but Lysander and Hermia . Lys . How now , my love ! why is your cheek so pale ? / How chance the roses there do fade so fast ? Her . Belike for want of rain , which I could well 130 Beteem them from the tempest ...
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... follows me . 200 Hel . The more I love , the more he hateth me . Her . His folly , Helena , is no fault of mine . Hel . None , but your beauty : would that fault were mine ! Her . Take comfort : he no more shall see my face ; Lysander ...
... follows me . 200 Hel . The more I love , the more he hateth me . Her . His folly , Helena , is no fault of mine . Hel . None , but your beauty : would that fault were mine ! Her . Take comfort : he no more shall see my face ; Lysander ...
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