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... , Robert Hope Case. OF SHAKESPEARE THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTH EDITED BY R. P. COWL METHUEN AND CO . LTD . 36 ESSEX STREET : STRAND LONDON First Published in 1923 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN 1 INTRODUCTION THE WORKS.
... , Robert Hope Case. OF SHAKESPEARE THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTH EDITED BY R. P. COWL METHUEN AND CO . LTD . 36 ESSEX STREET : STRAND LONDON First Published in 1923 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN 1 INTRODUCTION THE WORKS.
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... LONDON | Printed by V. S. for Andrew Wise , and William Aspley . | 1600. | In a first impression of this the earliest edition of the play the first scene of Act III . was omitted , whether by accident or as the result of some defect or ...
... LONDON | Printed by V. S. for Andrew Wise , and William Aspley . | 1600. | In a first impression of this the earliest edition of the play the first scene of Act III . was omitted , whether by accident or as the result of some defect or ...
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... London , printed in 1615 , but stated in the preface to that edition to have been in the fashion " some fifteene or sixteene yeares agoe . " Old Fortunatus furnishes some interesting parallels to passages in the two parts of Henry the ...
... London , printed in 1615 , but stated in the preface to that edition to have been in the fashion " some fifteene or sixteene yeares agoe . " Old Fortunatus furnishes some interesting parallels to passages in the two parts of Henry the ...
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... London with a play Godfrey of Bul- loigne , performed in 1594 , and that the indebtedness , if any , was not on Heywood's side . There are many curious in- stances of verbal identity between the present and earlier plays , as The Famous ...
... London with a play Godfrey of Bul- loigne , performed in 1594 , and that the indebtedness , if any , was not on Heywood's side . There are many curious in- stances of verbal identity between the present and earlier plays , as The Famous ...
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... London life . Shallow delights to revive memories of those golden days fifty - five years past , and the unsophisticated Silence , who has listened for half a century to Shallow's highly - coloured reminiscences of his wild youth in London ...
... London life . Shallow delights to revive memories of those golden days fifty - five years past , and the unsophisticated Silence , who has listened for half a century to Shallow's highly - coloured reminiscences of his wild youth in London ...
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Page 20 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invent or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Page 164 - It ascends me into the brain ; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it ; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes ; which, delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Page 110 - Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs...
Page 219 - King. I know thee not, old man : fall to thy prayers ; How ill white hairs become a fool and...
Page 168 - And noble offices thou mayst effect Of mediation, after I am dead, Between his greatness and thy other brethren : Therefore omit him not ; blunt not his love, Nor lose the good advantage of his grace By seeming cold or careless of his will ; For he is gracious, if he be observed : 30 He hath a tear for pity and a hand Open as day for melting charity...