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Page iv
... leave out of consideration the passage quoted by Steevens ; for it is , to say the least , quite as probable that the author of the Wisdom of Doctor Dodypoll borrowed from the Midsummer Night's Dream , as that Shakespeare borrowed from ...
... leave out of consideration the passage quoted by Steevens ; for it is , to say the least , quite as probable that the author of the Wisdom of Doctor Dodypoll borrowed from the Midsummer Night's Dream , as that Shakespeare borrowed from ...
Page x
... leaving London for Paris , in January , 1598 , at which time , as Rowland White relates , the Earl's marriage was secretly talked of . ' It appears that the exigencies of Mr. Massey's theory have here driven him into great straits ...
... leaving London for Paris , in January , 1598 , at which time , as Rowland White relates , the Earl's marriage was secretly talked of . ' It appears that the exigencies of Mr. Massey's theory have here driven him into great straits ...
Page xiv
... leaves it , and identifying the promontory on which Oberon sat with the ' brays ' which are described by Laneham as ' linking a fair park with the castle on the south , ' he disposes of the rest of the allegory in this wise . Cupid all ...
... leaves it , and identifying the promontory on which Oberon sat with the ' brays ' which are described by Laneham as ' linking a fair park with the castle on the south , ' he disposes of the rest of the allegory in this wise . Cupid all ...
Page xviii
... leave that green circle , which we com- monly find in plain fields , which others hold to proceed from a meteor falling , or some accidental rankness of the ground ; so nature sports herself . . . . Paracelsus reckons up many places in ...
... leave that green circle , which we com- monly find in plain fields , which others hold to proceed from a meteor falling , or some accidental rankness of the ground ; so nature sports herself . . . . Paracelsus reckons up many places in ...
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... leave the figure or disfigure it . Demetrius is a worthy gentleman . Her . So is Lysander . The . In himself he is ; But in this kind , wanting your father's voice , The other must be held the worthier . Her . I would my father look'd ...
... leave the figure or disfigure it . Demetrius is a worthy gentleman . Her . So is Lysander . The . In himself he is ; But in this kind , wanting your father's voice , The other must be held the worthier . Her . I would my father look'd ...
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