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Page ix
... love - lord " and . " husband - friend . " I hope these slight changes may commend themselves to some readers ; if the former be correct , it solves a long recognised difficulty . I have not altered the received punctuation of III . ii ...
... love - lord " and . " husband - friend . " I hope these slight changes may commend themselves to some readers ; if the former be correct , it solves a long recognised difficulty . I have not altered the received punctuation of III . ii ...
Page x
... Love , Dryfat , a member of the " Family , " says , “ I have Aminadabs and Abrahams to my godsons . " I must leave it to some more ingenious critic to make the discovery that we should read " Abron Cupid , " and that Shakespeare had ...
... Love , Dryfat , a member of the " Family , " says , “ I have Aminadabs and Abrahams to my godsons . " I must leave it to some more ingenious critic to make the discovery that we should read " Abron Cupid , " and that Shakespeare had ...
Page xix
... love - theme , the abundance of rhyme , not only in couplets , but alternate , and arranged in sextet and sonnet form , the pleasure of the writer in forced conceits , and play upon words , sometimes even in serious passages , point to ...
... love - theme , the abundance of rhyme , not only in couplets , but alternate , and arranged in sextet and sonnet form , the pleasure of the writer in forced conceits , and play upon words , sometimes even in serious passages , point to ...
Page xx
... love , O life , not life but love in death , O child , O child , my soul and not my child , are parodies on Hieronimo's words in The Spanish Tragedy : O eyes ! no eyes , but fountains fraught with tears ; O life ! no life , but lively ...
... love , O life , not life but love in death , O child , O child , my soul and not my child , are parodies on Hieronimo's words in The Spanish Tragedy : O eyes ! no eyes , but fountains fraught with tears ; O life ! no life , but lively ...
Page xxii
... hatred face to face with love . The character of the Nurse is found in Brooke , but Shakespeare admirably develops its humorous side . He reduces the age of Juliet from sixteen to fourteen , the age xxii INTRODUCTION.
... hatred face to face with love . The character of the Nurse is found in Brooke , but Shakespeare admirably develops its humorous side . He reduces the age of Juliet from sixteen to fourteen , the age xxii INTRODUCTION.
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Page xxxv - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Page 37 - a lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice. Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts, and wakes ; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Page 63 - O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give...
Page 53 - tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
Page 87 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die ; like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume.
Page 58 - Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say 'It lightens.
Page 36 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid; Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love; O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight.
Page 53 - O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him, When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Page 62 - Good night, good night ! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say — good night, till it be morrow.
Page 53 - Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night. See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand. That I might touch that cheek!