The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 4R. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... THEOBALD . Perhaps this expression took its origin from a sport the country- people in Warwickshire use at their harvest - home , where one sits as judge to try misdemeanors committed in harvest , and the punishment for the men is to be ...
... THEOBALD . Perhaps this expression took its origin from a sport the country- people in Warwickshire use at their harvest - home , where one sits as judge to try misdemeanors committed in harvest , and the punishment for the men is to be ...
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... THEOBALD . Nash , in his " Have with you to Saffron Walden , " 1595 , speak- ing of Gabriel Harvey's incontinence , says , " he would not stick to extoll rotten lac'd mutton . " So , in the comedy of The Shoemaker's Holiday , or the ...
... THEOBALD . Nash , in his " Have with you to Saffron Walden , " 1595 , speak- ing of Gabriel Harvey's incontinence , says , " he would not stick to extoll rotten lac'd mutton . " So , in the comedy of The Shoemaker's Holiday , or the ...
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... THEOBALD . -did she nod ? ] These words have been supplied by some of the editors , to introduce what follows . STEEVENS . They were supplied by Mr. Theobald . In Speed's answer the old spelling of the affirmative particle has been ...
... THEOBALD . -did she nod ? ] These words have been supplied by some of the editors , to introduce what follows . STEEVENS . They were supplied by Mr. Theobald . In Speed's answer the old spelling of the affirmative particle has been ...
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... THEOBALD . Print thus : " Now come I to my mother , ( O , that she could speak now ! ) like a wood woman . " Perhaps the humour would be heightened by reading- ( O , that the shoe could speak now ! ) BLACKSTONE . I have followed the ...
... THEOBALD . Print thus : " Now come I to my mother , ( O , that she could speak now ! ) like a wood woman . " Perhaps the humour would be heightened by reading- ( O , that the shoe could speak now ! ) BLACKSTONE . I have followed the ...
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... evidently addressed to two persons . A servant , therefore , must come in and deliver the message ; and then Silvia goes out with Thurio . THEOBALD . VOL . IV . E VAL . How does your lady ; and how thrives SC . IV . 49 OF VERONA .
... evidently addressed to two persons . A servant , therefore , must come in and deliver the message ; and then Silvia goes out with Thurio . THEOBALD . VOL . IV . E VAL . How does your lady ; and how thrives SC . IV . 49 OF VERONA .
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Page 390 - 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...
Page 20 - I have no other but a woman's reason : I think him so, because I think him so.
Page 53 - Not for the world : why, man, she is mine own ; And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
Page 380 - You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, You common people of the skies; What are you when the moon shall rise?
Page 100 - Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her ? Holy, fair, and wise is she ; The Heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be. Is she kind as she is fair, — For beauty lives with kindness ? Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness ; And, being help'd, inhabits there. Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling; She excels each mortal thing Upon the dull earth dwelling...