Select Plays; A Midsummer Night's DreamClarendon Press, 1879 - 147 pages |
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... quartos . The folios have ' gallantly . ' 21. ask , require . Compare Richard II , ii . 1. 159 : ' And for these great affairs do ask some charge . ' And Bacon , Advancement of Learning , ii . 14 ( p . 85 Clar . Press ed . ) : ' For as ...
... quartos . The folios have ' gallantly . ' 21. ask , require . Compare Richard II , ii . 1. 159 : ' And for these great affairs do ask some charge . ' And Bacon , Advancement of Learning , ii . 14 ( p . 85 Clar . Press ed . ) : ' For as ...
Page 86
... quartos and folios , is properly the loose skin which hangs from the throat of cattle . See iv . 1. 121 , and The Tempest , iii . 3. 45 : ' Dewlapp'd like bulls . ' Baret ( Alvearie , s . v . ) has : ' the Dewlap of a rudder beast ...
... quartos and folios , is properly the loose skin which hangs from the throat of cattle . See iv . 1. 121 , and The Tempest , iii . 3. 45 : ' Dewlapp'd like bulls . ' Baret ( Alvearie , s . v . ) has : ' the Dewlap of a rudder beast ...
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... quartos and folios Oberon is called the King of Fairies , ' and Titania ' the Queen . ' 61. Fairies , skip hence . The old copies have ' Fairy , ' which Capell understands of the leading fairy , her gentleman - usher , and therefore ...
... quartos and folios Oberon is called the King of Fairies , ' and Titania ' the Queen . ' 61. Fairies , skip hence . The old copies have ' Fairy , ' which Capell understands of the leading fairy , her gentleman - usher , and therefore ...
Page 88
... quartos and folios have ' Eagles . ' In North's Plutarch ( ed . 1631 ) , Theseus , p . 9 , we read : For some say , that Ariadne hung herselfe for sorrow , when she saw that Theseus had cast her off . Other write , that she was ...
... quartos and folios have ' Eagles . ' In North's Plutarch ( ed . 1631 ) , Theseus , p . 9 , we read : For some say , that Ariadne hung herselfe for sorrow , when she saw that Theseus had cast her off . Other write , that she was ...
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... folios in King Lear , iii . 7. 43 : ' the caged cloister , ' the cloister which serves as a cage , A Lover's ... quartos and folios , which is attracted into the singular by the preceding ' land . ' See note on Hamlet , i . 2. 38 . Ib ...
... folios in King Lear , iii . 7. 43 : ' the caged cloister , ' the cloister which serves as a cage , A Lover's ... quartos and folios , which is attracted into the singular by the preceding ' land . ' See note on Hamlet , i . 2. 38 . Ib ...
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