The Works of Shakespeare ...Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1907 |
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... Steevens quotes Plautus , [ in fragm . apud Gell . 3 , 3 ] , puero , uterus erat Solarium . " 79. sconce ] the head . Florio , Ital . Dict .: " a head , a pate , a nole , a skonce . " Compare II . ii . 34 ; Hamlet , sconce " ; a v ...
... Steevens quotes Plautus , [ in fragm . apud Gell . 3 , 3 ] , puero , uterus erat Solarium . " 79. sconce ] the head . Florio , Ital . Dict .: " a head , a pate , a nole , a skonce . " Compare II . ii . 34 ; Hamlet , sconce " ; a v ...
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... Steevens thinks " licensed ers , this expression offenders , " and he quotes - I think with considerable effect - Ascham , means and favour of for concre speare's u age " " may 66 lil for " liber Le body , banks , 1 : 100 Doner .
... Steevens thinks " licensed ers , this expression offenders , " and he quotes - I think with considerable effect - Ascham , means and favour of for concre speare's u age " " may 66 lil for " liber Le body , banks , 1 : 100 Doner .
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... Steevens might also have The Honest Whore , supra , p . ho lives in bondage lives rt some other where ? ] Com- 104 ... quotes Venus and Adonis , [ 604 ] : " As those poor birds that helpless berries saw . " Compare also Lucrece ...
... Steevens might also have The Honest Whore , supra , p . ho lives in bondage lives rt some other where ? ] Com- 104 ... quotes Venus and Adonis , [ 604 ] : " As those poor birds that helpless berries saw . " Compare also Lucrece ...
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... quotes Palsgrave , Lesclarcissement , 1530 , " Blo : blewe and greene ... Steevens , " must have originated from our author's clerkship to an attorney ... quotes W ii . § 136 : recoveries stroy esta reversions owners th " Is this ...
... quotes Palsgrave , Lesclarcissement , 1530 , " Blo : blewe and greene ... Steevens , " must have originated from our author's clerkship to an attorney ... quotes W ii . § 136 : recoveries stroy esta reversions owners th " Is this ...
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... Steevens quotes The Roaring Girl , 1611 [ Dodsley , vi . 82 ] : " Your women are so hot , I must lose my hair in their company , I see . " er lost : yet he g . That he spends ERRORS [ ACT II . 35 SC . II . ] THE COMEDY OF ERRORS.
... Steevens quotes The Roaring Girl , 1611 [ Dodsley , vi . 82 ] : " Your women are so hot , I must lose my hair in their company , I see . " er lost : yet he g . That he spends ERRORS [ ACT II . 35 SC . II . ] THE COMEDY OF ERRORS.
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Antipholus of Ephesus Antipholus of Syracuse brother chain cloake Collier comedies Craig didst dine dinner Dodsley door doth Dream Dromio Dromio of Syracuse Duke Dyce Enter ANTIPHOLUS Ephesus Epidamnum Erot Erotium Errors Exeunt Exit fairy fetch Folio fool Gentlemen of Verona gold hair Hanmer hast hath Henry Henry IV Henry VI husband Keightley look Love's Labour's Lost Luciana Lyly's Malone master meaning Menaecmi Menechmus Merchant of Venice Merry Wives Mess Messenio mistress never omitted Othello passage Peniculus Plautus play Pope pray quibble reading refers Richard II Romeo Romeo and Juliet rope's end Rowe says SCENE sense Shakespeare ship speak stale Steevens quotes Syracuse tell thee Theobald thou art Titus Andronicus Twelfth Night villain Walker conj wife Wives of Windsor word
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Page xii - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 91 - He understood the speech of birds As well as they themselves do words ; Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean ; What member 'tis of whom they talk When they cry ' Rope,' and
Page xi - The author is at home in his subject, and presents his views in an almost singularly clear and satisfactory manner. . . . The volume is a valuable contribution to one of the most difficult, and at the same time one of the most important subjects of investigation at the present day.
Page xxx - THE myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakspeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments.
Page 84 - I loved her most, and thought to set my rest On her kind nursery.