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Page 49
The Poet's of their wit -- they have their hands joined , and the conreaders may
hesitate in following his speculative critic ... And it concludes with hoping that
Beatrice will live happy is interesting to trace how that great rule of the Poet , with
...
The Poet's of their wit -- they have their hands joined , and the conreaders may
hesitate in following his speculative critic ... And it concludes with hoping that
Beatrice will live happy is interesting to trace how that great rule of the Poet , with
...
Page 49
The knot is now untied , The intention of the Poet in relation to the great and ,
according to the common idea , the curtain might question of the rights of
conscience and opinion , which drop . But the Poet was unwilling to dismiss his
au- is ...
The knot is now untied , The intention of the Poet in relation to the great and ,
according to the common idea , the curtain might question of the rights of
conscience and opinion , which drop . But the Poet was unwilling to dismiss his
au- is ...
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In a column of the same entries , headed , “ The poets which mayd the Plaies , "
the name of ** Shaxberd ” is written - a mode of misspelling the Poet's name ,
which occurs in several other instances . The Master of the Revels , when he
made ...
In a column of the same entries , headed , “ The poets which mayd the Plaies , "
the name of ** Shaxberd ” is written - a mode of misspelling the Poet's name ,
which occurs in several other instances . The Master of the Revels , when he
made ...
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He has , perhaps , as a poet , even sacrificed something of his dramatic interest
to this purpose , by making the noble and accomplished Bertram inferior to the
low - born Helena , in every truly honourable quality ; so that most readers will ...
He has , perhaps , as a poet , even sacrificed something of his dramatic interest
to this purpose , by making the noble and accomplished Bertram inferior to the
low - born Helena , in every truly honourable quality ; so that most readers will ...
Page 6
in copying the oracle from the novel , the Poet did not use the earier edition , but
one of these , ( 1607 or 16 09. ) I which the language had been changed . It thus
becomes manifest that the Winter's Tale was written at some time about 1610 , in
...
in copying the oracle from the novel , the Poet did not use the earier edition , but
one of these , ( 1607 or 16 09. ) I which the language had been changed . It thus
becomes manifest that the Winter's Tale was written at some time about 1610 , in
...
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Page 25 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet...
Page 38 - 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; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!
Page 28 - Have waked their sleepers ; oped, and let them forth By my so potent art. But this rough magic I here abjure ; and, when I have requir'd Some heavenly music, (which even now I do) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Page 45 - Will in that station, was the faint, general, and almost lost ideas, he had of having once seen him act a part in one of his own comedies, wherein being to personate a decrepit old man, he wore a long beard, and appeared so weak and drooping and unable to walk, that he was forced to be supported and carried by another person to a table, at which he was seated among some company who were eating, and one of them sung a song.
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| Title | Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 2 Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Gulian Crommelin Verplanck |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck |
| Illustrated by | H. W. Hewet |
| Publisher | Harper & Brothers, 1847 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 3 Jan 2007 |
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