The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 20Harper, 1908 |
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Page xiv
... piece ; action , or the unfolding of the story , being the most important matter in a stage - play . It is often said that we know nothing about Shake- speare , the man . It seems to me there is no one about whom I know so much . For ...
... piece ; action , or the unfolding of the story , being the most important matter in a stage - play . It is often said that we know nothing about Shake- speare , the man . It seems to me there is no one about whom I know so much . For ...
Page 82
... pieces there is much horse - play , chiefly on the part of a character called the " Vice , " the servitor of the Devil , who at the close is wont to drive his master from the stage with blows . Cf. Tw . Night , IV , ii , 120–122 , and ...
... pieces there is much horse - play , chiefly on the part of a character called the " Vice , " the servitor of the Devil , who at the close is wont to drive his master from the stage with blows . Cf. Tw . Night , IV , ii , 120–122 , and ...
Page 137
... piece Of skilful painting , made for Priam's Troy ; Before the which is drawn the power of Greece , For Helen's rape the city to destroy , Threatening cloud - kissing Ilion with annoy ; Which the conceited painter drew so proud , As ...
... piece Of skilful painting , made for Priam's Troy ; Before the which is drawn the power of Greece , For Helen's rape the city to destroy , Threatening cloud - kissing Ilion with annoy ; Which the conceited painter drew so proud , As ...
Page 141
... piece is Lucrece come , To find a face where all distress is stell'd . 1433 And to their hope . . . yield ] And towards their hope ( i . e . , Hector ) they conduct themselves with such inconsistency or uncertainty ( not knowing whether ...
... piece is Lucrece come , To find a face where all distress is stell'd . 1433 And to their hope . . . yield ] And towards their hope ( i . e . , Hector ) they conduct themselves with such inconsistency or uncertainty ( not knowing whether ...
Page 171
... piece , like Nos . X , XIII , XIV , and XIX , are all in the common six - line stanza of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis . None of these pieces is found elsewhere . All may possibly be by Richard Barnfield , the author of Nos . VIII ...
... piece , like Nos . X , XIII , XIV , and XIX , are all in the common six - line stanza of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis . None of these pieces is found elsewhere . All may possibly be by Richard Barnfield , the author of Nos . VIII ...
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