The Works of Shakespeare: Love's Labour's LostMethuen, 1906 - 183 pages |
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Page xix
... hath not seene , but they have Revyved an olde one , cawled Loves Labore Lost , which for wytt & mirthe he sayes will please her exced- ingly . And thys ys apointed to be playd to morowe night at my Lord of Sowthamptons , unless yow ...
... hath not seene , but they have Revyved an olde one , cawled Loves Labore Lost , which for wytt & mirthe he sayes will please her exced- ingly . And thys ys apointed to be playd to morowe night at my Lord of Sowthamptons , unless yow ...
Page xxix
... hath " a mint of phrases in his brain . " We are to expect fabulous old and noble stories , minstrelsy , deeds of derring - do and what not , but we get nothing of the sort . Later , however , we get another description of Armado from ...
... hath " a mint of phrases in his brain . " We are to expect fabulous old and noble stories , minstrelsy , deeds of derring - do and what not , but we get nothing of the sort . Later , however , we get another description of Armado from ...
Page xxxiv
... hath saved your lives , the which a world of silver could not have done , I understand you , and pardon ye . " See , too , Edwards ' Damon and Pythias ( ante 1566 ) . Moth gives us minime and unum cita ( = unciatim ) . Was this fashion ...
... hath saved your lives , the which a world of silver could not have done , I understand you , and pardon ye . " See , too , Edwards ' Damon and Pythias ( ante 1566 ) . Moth gives us minime and unum cita ( = unciatim ) . Was this fashion ...
Page xxxvi
... hath been quodammodo : hunted , as you would say , pursued by two , a brace , a couple , a cast of young men " ( Nichols , p . 97 ) . Holofernes is full of this sort of padding . See note at IV . ii . 62. I will select a few passages at ...
... hath been quodammodo : hunted , as you would say , pursued by two , a brace , a couple , a cast of young men " ( Nichols , p . 97 ) . Holofernes is full of this sort of padding . See note at IV . ii . 62. I will select a few passages at ...
Page xlii
... Hath travelled to make legs , and seen the cringe Of several courts , and courtiers ; knows the time Of giving titles and of taking walls ; . . . ... and all the rules Each formal usher in that politic school Can teach a man . " A ...
... Hath travelled to make legs , and seen the cringe Of several courts , and courtiers ; knows the time Of giving titles and of taking walls ; . . . ... and all the rules Each formal usher in that politic school Can teach a man . " A ...
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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.
Page 104 - Above their functions and their offices. It adds a precious seeing to the eye ; A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind ; A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd; Love's feeling is more soft, and sensible, Than are the tender horns of cockled snails...
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...
Page 181 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckoo...
Page 3 - The endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour, which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity.
Page 73 - Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts...
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...
Page 169 - I tell you, sirs, that I judge no land in England better bestowed than that which is given to our universities; for by their maintenance our realm shall be well governed when we be dead and rotten.
Page 7 - Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books. • These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are.
Page 106 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...