The Works of Shakespeare: Love's Labour's LostMethuen, 1906 - 183 pages |
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Page xxi
... suggested by the well - known interview at Saint Bris . That Shakespeare attempted to depict in the Princess the lineaments of Catherine , we do not for a moment assert . " • The discrepancies between the above sketch and the meet- ing ...
... suggested by the well - known interview at Saint Bris . That Shakespeare attempted to depict in the Princess the lineaments of Catherine , we do not for a moment assert . " • The discrepancies between the above sketch and the meet- ing ...
Page xxii
... suggested that as that character became more prominent , so also are his speeches superior , possibly pointing to their having been worked up in the revised and augmented play . The civil war in France was in progress between 1589 and ...
... suggested that as that character became more prominent , so also are his speeches superior , possibly pointing to their having been worked up in the revised and augmented play . The civil war in France was in progress between 1589 and ...
Page xxviii
... suggested source of the cause of the Muscovite masque is but one more of several evidences of the later manipulations of Act v . in Love's Labour's Lost . It is much nearer home than the Horsey business . PECULIARITIES OF LANGUAGE We ...
... suggested source of the cause of the Muscovite masque is but one more of several evidences of the later manipulations of Act v . in Love's Labour's Lost . It is much nearer home than the Horsey business . PECULIARITIES OF LANGUAGE We ...
Page xliii
... suggested already from Mr. Lee's analysis . But it is well to utter a note of warning against any tendency to identify the King and his courtiers with their French counterparts - counterparts only in name . Perhaps the most glaring ...
... suggested already from Mr. Lee's analysis . But it is well to utter a note of warning against any tendency to identify the King and his courtiers with their French counterparts - counterparts only in name . Perhaps the most glaring ...
Page xlix
... suggests this in his 1904 edition of the play ( p . vi . , footnote ) . So that Shakespeare probably had read it , but the fact of his disregarding those useful theatrical accessories of music and bowers shows also that prob- ably he ...
... suggests this in his 1904 edition of the play ( p . vi . , footnote ) . So that Shakespeare probably had read it , but the fact of his disregarding those useful theatrical accessories of music and bowers shows also that prob- ably he ...
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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...