The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 9Jefferson Press, 1907 |
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... present is not the occasion for discuss- ing - no play of that name was performed till 1594 , though a " Titus and Vespacia " was acted some years earlier . This fact , then , gives to " Henry VI , " which Shake- speare's friends and ...
... present is not the occasion for discuss- ing - no play of that name was performed till 1594 , though a " Titus and Vespacia " was acted some years earlier . This fact , then , gives to " Henry VI , " which Shake- speare's friends and ...
Page xi
... present into the details of his criticism , I cannot refrain at the outset of this Introduction from citing some words of the Nestor of English Shakespeare scholars , Dr. Furnivall , ' because it is above all things desirable that in ...
... present into the details of his criticism , I cannot refrain at the outset of this Introduction from citing some words of the Nestor of English Shakespeare scholars , Dr. Furnivall , ' because it is above all things desirable that in ...
Page xvi
... present purpose at all events , of decisive importance whether Greene in this passage in- 1 " Life of Shakespeare , " p . 110 . 2 The earliest edition extant is dated 1596 ; but there is no reason for supposing it to have differed from ...
... present purpose at all events , of decisive importance whether Greene in this passage in- 1 " Life of Shakespeare , " p . 110 . 2 The earliest edition extant is dated 1596 ; but there is no reason for supposing it to have differed from ...
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... present task has been greatly facilitated by the impressions freshly conveyed to me of this memorable performance through the kind- ness of my friend Miss Alice D. Greenwood , to whom this Introduction is under many other important ...
... present task has been greatly facilitated by the impressions freshly conveyed to me of this memorable performance through the kind- ness of my friend Miss Alice D. Greenwood , to whom this Introduction is under many other important ...
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... present and account for it would have been a task worthy of a great dramatist . On the other hand , it is difficult to suppress a wish , that , instead of King Henry's royal contempt for com- 1 men being emphasised in a striking passage ...
... present and account for it would have been a task worthy of a great dramatist . On the other hand , it is difficult to suppress a wish , that , instead of King Henry's royal contempt for com- 1 men being emphasised in a striking passage ...
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Page 105 - Be brave then ; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be, in England, seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny : the threehooped pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in common, and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to grass.
Page 105 - CADE. I thank you, good people— there shall be no money; all shall eat and drink on my score, and I will apparel them all in one livery, that they may agree like brothers and worship me their lord.
Page 18 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
Page 3 - HUNG be the heavens with black , yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky ; And with them scourge the bad revolting stars, That have consented unto Henry's death ! Henry the fifth, too famous to live long ! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.
Page xvi - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 45 - Let him that is a true-born gentleman And stands upon the honour of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. 30 Som. Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.