The Works of Shakespeare: Love's Labour's LostMethuen, 1906 - 183 pages |
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Page xii
... a remodelling of it . I have cor- rected the notes in most places to the Dublin edition of 1738-39 . " naked truth " ( v . ii . 698 ) . See note at commended for falling foul of Steevens , who called this xii INTRODUCTION.
... a remodelling of it . I have cor- rected the notes in most places to the Dublin edition of 1738-39 . " naked truth " ( v . ii . 698 ) . See note at commended for falling foul of Steevens , who called this xii INTRODUCTION.
Page xiii
Love's Labour's Lost William Shakespeare Henry Chichester Hart. commended for falling foul of Steevens , who called this delight- ful little tract a " worthless original " -who also said " that the force of an Act of Parliament would not ...
Love's Labour's Lost William Shakespeare Henry Chichester Hart. commended for falling foul of Steevens , who called this delight- ful little tract a " worthless original " -who also said " that the force of an Act of Parliament would not ...
Page xxix
... of the old romances as an essay upon Armado , which Tyrwhitt answered with great propriety . Both will be found in Steevens ' Shakespeare , appended to the play . It is equally out of place to identify INTRODUCTION xxix.
... of the old romances as an essay upon Armado , which Tyrwhitt answered with great propriety . Both will be found in Steevens ' Shakespeare , appended to the play . It is equally out of place to identify INTRODUCTION xxix.
Page xxxv
... ( Steevens ' Shakespeare [ 1793 ] , v . 256 , 257 ) . Dr. Johnson immediately disagreed , and so did Malone . Farmer and Steevens followed Warburton . Warburton's whole fabric ( it is of considerable length ) is well pulled to pieces by ...
... ( Steevens ' Shakespeare [ 1793 ] , v . 256 , 257 ) . Dr. Johnson immediately disagreed , and so did Malone . Farmer and Steevens followed Warburton . Warburton's whole fabric ( it is of considerable length ) is well pulled to pieces by ...
Page xlvii
... Steevens from letters to the Earl of Shrewsbury , dated Aug. 14 , 1555 , and July , 1605 , from Lodge's Illustra- tions of British History , etc. , i . 203 , iii . 295 : " I besiche yor Lordeshipp to tayke some sporte of my litell ...
... Steevens from letters to the Earl of Shrewsbury , dated Aug. 14 , 1555 , and July , 1605 , from Lodge's Illustra- tions of British History , etc. , i . 203 , iii . 295 : " I besiche yor Lordeshipp to tayke some sporte of my litell ...
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Page 104 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
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Page 32 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
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Page viii - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for comedy, witnes his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors...
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