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Page xxxi
... tion with " ever " and the superlative , " and the superlative , as in 2 Henry VI . I. i . 15 , 16 : " The happiest gift that ever marquess gave , The fairest queen that ever king received " ; and see also 3 Henry VI . II . i . 67. And ...
... tion with " ever " and the superlative , " and the superlative , as in 2 Henry VI . I. i . 15 , 16 : " The happiest gift that ever marquess gave , The fairest queen that ever king received " ; and see also 3 Henry VI . II . i . 67. And ...
Page xxxii
... tion from a Scotch ballad . This is the least group , and I presume Todd is correct . Hawes , Pastime of Pleasure ( reprint , p . 94 ) , I man yet surely at the bayte With Sapyence repent . " Spenser often recalls Hawes , as " pale and ...
... tion from a Scotch ballad . This is the least group , and I presume Todd is correct . Hawes , Pastime of Pleasure ( reprint , p . 94 ) , I man yet surely at the bayte With Sapyence repent . " Spenser often recalls Hawes , as " pale and ...
Page xxxvi
... tion . All capable writers took what licence words . Whether their efforts were to be las depended partly on the effort itself , but mo fame and impress of the writer , both conti the lap of posterity . No writer had such a n ...
... tion . All capable writers took what licence words . Whether their efforts were to be las depended partly on the effort itself , but mo fame and impress of the writer , both conti the lap of posterity . No writer had such a n ...
Page xli
... tion -est to the verb in the past tense , second person . The language arising has a Biblical cast in modern ears , but in Shakespeare's time it had hardly acquired that distinction . But as Abbott ( 231 ) points out it was becoming ...
... tion -est to the verb in the past tense , second person . The language arising has a Biblical cast in modern ears , but in Shakespeare's time it had hardly acquired that distinction . But as Abbott ( 231 ) points out it was becoming ...
Page xlix
... tion until the next › emphatically right regarded as belong- d . This does not t of place for the nt that those plays expunging at one nges made in the me and insufficient and developing at these three parts ard ) have turned ttle ...
... tion until the next › emphatically right regarded as belong- d . This does not t of place for the nt that those plays expunging at one nges made in the me and insufficient and developing at these three parts ard ) have turned ttle ...
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Page 63 - 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 xxiii - 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 2 - 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 22 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.