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Page viii
... ( Grosart's ed . ii . 88 ) . After proving that plays " borrowed out of our English chronicles " are " a rare exercise of virtue , " he says : " How would it have ioyed brave Talbot ( the terror of the French ) to thinke that after he had ...
... ( Grosart's ed . ii . 88 ) . After proving that plays " borrowed out of our English chronicles " are " a rare exercise of virtue , " he says : " How would it have ioyed brave Talbot ( the terror of the French ) to thinke that after he had ...
Page xv
... Grosart , vi . 254 ) . For massacre , see note II . ii . 18. But Greene has not the verb " skirmish . " It is frequent in Berner's Froissart . 1. ii . 48. your cheer appal'd . Not elsewhere in Shakespeare . Occurs several times in ...
... Grosart , vi . 254 ) . For massacre , see note II . ii . 18. But Greene has not the verb " skirmish . " It is frequent in Berner's Froissart . 1. ii . 48. your cheer appal'd . Not elsewhere in Shakespeare . Occurs several times in ...
Page xvii
... Grosart , ix . 22 ) ; " Solon pulde downe his plumes " ( Farewell to Follie , ix . 260 ) . Marlowe uses this also . III . iii . II . foil . Occurs again meaning defeat , miscarriage ( Schmidt ) only at v . iii . 23 below . Often KING ...
... Grosart , ix . 22 ) ; " Solon pulde downe his plumes " ( Farewell to Follie , ix . 260 ) . Marlowe uses this also . III . iii . II . foil . Occurs again meaning defeat , miscarriage ( Schmidt ) only at v . iii . 23 below . Often KING ...
Page xxi
... ( Grosart's Nashe , iii . 28,1596 ) ) . too · . I. ii . 11. they must . . . have their provenders tied to their mouths . " Except the Cammell have his provender Hung at his mouth he will not travell on " ( Summer's Last Will , vi . 137 ...
... ( Grosart's Nashe , iii . 28,1596 ) ) . too · . I. ii . 11. they must . . . have their provenders tied to their mouths . " Except the Cammell have his provender Hung at his mouth he will not travell on " ( Summer's Last Will , vi . 137 ...
Page xxix
... ( Grosart , xiv . 209 ) . Shake- speare very wisely dropt this ineffectual method which easily becomes silly . It is an archaism , and without claiming its re- introduction for Spenser , it may be shown that he used it freely . " Go , we ...
... ( Grosart , xiv . 209 ) . Shake- speare very wisely dropt this ineffectual method which easily becomes silly . It is an archaism , and without claiming its re- introduction for Spenser , it may be shown that he used it freely . " Go , we ...
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Page 65 - Will I upon thy party wear this rose : And here I prophesy ; — This brawl to-day Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page xxv - Few of the university pen plays well; they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis, and talk too much of Proserpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down, aye, and Ben Jonson too.
Page 4 - 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 ! King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long ! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.
Page 24 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.