As You Like it: With Notes, Introduction and GlossaryHenry Holt, 1904 |
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Page viii
... mind was constituted on somewhat similar lines , and in age he could repeat entire pages of ballads which he had heard only once recited in early youth . Shakespeare begins Work . - Shakespeare's schooldays probably lasted from 1571 ...
... mind was constituted on somewhat similar lines , and in age he could repeat entire pages of ballads which he had heard only once recited in early youth . Shakespeare begins Work . - Shakespeare's schooldays probably lasted from 1571 ...
Page xv
... mind in his dramas . Shakespeare is un- questionably the most extraordinary intellectual being the world has known . His genius consisted in the absolute equality or equipoise which existed between his imaginative and his intellectual ...
... mind in his dramas . Shakespeare is un- questionably the most extraordinary intellectual being the world has known . His genius consisted in the absolute equality or equipoise which existed between his imaginative and his intellectual ...
Page xix
... already " decayed " in 1603 1 Shakespeare : his Mind and Art , by Edward Dowden , 9th edit . , 1889 . 2 As You Like It , Henry V. , Every Man in His Humour , Much Aao about Nothing . ( IV . i . 155 ) ; the passage xix.
... already " decayed " in 1603 1 Shakespeare : his Mind and Art , by Edward Dowden , 9th edit . , 1889 . 2 As You Like It , Henry V. , Every Man in His Humour , Much Aao about Nothing . ( IV . i . 155 ) ; the passage xix.
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... mind is " full of matter , " even in its sullen fits , for his is " a most humorous sadness . " It is a complex nature , hyper - sensitive , out of its element in this Golden World of the Forest of Arden , which is a world of existent ...
... mind is " full of matter , " even in its sullen fits , for his is " a most humorous sadness . " It is a complex nature , hyper - sensitive , out of its element in this Golden World of the Forest of Arden , which is a world of existent ...
Page xxvii
... mind . Phebe's vanity is huge ; her views of life are exaggerated and romantic ; and her somewhat idio- pathic knowledge of it is just enough to be a dangerous thing . Hers is the nature of quick impulses , small ambitions , inferior ...
... mind . Phebe's vanity is huge ; her views of life are exaggerated and romantic ; and her somewhat idio- pathic knowledge of it is just enough to be a dangerous thing . Hers is the nature of quick impulses , small ambitions , inferior ...
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Page 26 - The seasons' difference ; as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say "This is no flattery ; these are counsellors 10 That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 27 - To-day my Lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him as he lay along Under an oak whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page 33 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed ! Thou art not for the fashion of these times. Where none will sweat, but for promotion ; And having that, do choke their service up Even with the having : it is not so with thee.
Page 33 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 27 - Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood ; To the which place a poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt...
Page 47 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits, and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms; And then, the whining school-boy, with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school: And then, the lover; Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress...
Page 5 - They say he is already in the forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him ; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England. They say many young gentlemen flock to him every day, and fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.
Page 47 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances ; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Page 48 - With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing.
Page 43 - No, sir," quoth he, "Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune." And then he drew a dial from his poke, And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock. Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags.