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... passages of merit - its verse is unmusical , its situations are usually poorly developed - and were it not for the essential interest of the subject - matter , to any English reader it would be unreadable . But even there it is ...
... passages of merit - its verse is unmusical , its situations are usually poorly developed - and were it not for the essential interest of the subject - matter , to any English reader it would be unreadable . But even there it is ...
Page xiii
... passage in the preface to Perimedes ( dated 1588 ) , says Mr. Greg , it is evident Greene had been scoffed at on the stage for some failure connected therewith . This failure may be assigned to Alphon- sus as being apparently the ...
... passage in the preface to Perimedes ( dated 1588 ) , says Mr. Greg , it is evident Greene had been scoffed at on the stage for some failure connected therewith . This failure may be assigned to Alphon- sus as being apparently the ...
Page xiv
William Shakespeare William James Craig, Robert Hope Case. necting a passage referring to the lost Delphrygus , in ... passages in common and because the character Sacrapant is in both , which Greene took from Ariosto . Mr. Greg disagrees ...
William Shakespeare William James Craig, Robert Hope Case. necting a passage referring to the lost Delphrygus , in ... passages in common and because the character Sacrapant is in both , which Greene took from Ariosto . Mr. Greg disagrees ...
Page xvii
... passage here . ) Earlier in Marlowe . III . i . 190. feign'd . . . forged . Commonly set together by Greene : " fained faith & forged flatterie " ( Mamillia , ii . 183 ) ; " to forge a fayned tale " ( Alphonsus , xiii . 341 ) . And the ...
... passage here . ) Earlier in Marlowe . III . i . 190. feign'd . . . forged . Commonly set together by Greene : " fained faith & forged flatterie " ( Mamillia , ii . 183 ) ; " to forge a fayned tale " ( Alphonsus , xiii . 341 ) . And the ...
Page xviii
... passage , and at 3 Henry VI . 1. i . 46 . ACT v . v . i . 23 . Wanton dalliance with a paramour . install'd . Very common in Greene . Probably by Greene . Shakespeare has it v . i . 28 . only in Henry VIII . and 1 and 3 Henry VI . / v ...
... passage , and at 3 Henry VI . 1. i . 46 . ACT v . v . i . 23 . Wanton dalliance with a paramour . install'd . Very common in Greene . Probably by Greene . Shakespeare has it v . i . 28 . only in Henry VIII . and 1 and 3 Henry VI . / v ...
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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.