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Page x
... Spenserian " thrice- happy " ( Peele's ) is omitted from the final play . The two great speeches of Margaret and York are very slightly altered , both undoubtedly Shakespeare's . Margaret recalls again The First Contention ( III . i ...
... Spenserian " thrice- happy " ( Peele's ) is omitted from the final play . The two great speeches of Margaret and York are very slightly altered , both undoubtedly Shakespeare's . Margaret recalls again The First Contention ( III . i ...
Page xi
... Spenser's , which occurs in the Messenger's speech ( Q , II . i . 43 ) , “ saddest spectacle " appears in the final play ( II . v . 73 ) . Line 71 ( " The flower of Europe " ) is found in The First Contention but was omitted in 2 Henry ...
... Spenser's , which occurs in the Messenger's speech ( Q , II . i . 43 ) , “ saddest spectacle " appears in the final play ( II . v . 73 ) . Line 71 ( " The flower of Europe " ) is found in The First Contention but was omitted in 2 Henry ...
Page xiii
... Spenser's " piteous spectacle " here ( 73 ) altered to " saddest spectacle " before ( II . i . 67 ) . Some of the changes are very quaint , as " son so rude , " to " son so rued " ( 109 ) . Several lines of Q are shifted about ...
... Spenser's " piteous spectacle " here ( 73 ) altered to " saddest spectacle " before ( II . i . 67 ) . Some of the changes are very quaint , as " son so rude , " to " son so rued " ( 109 ) . Several lines of Q are shifted about ...
Page xviii
... Spenser's old dragon . The tag at the end in the style of Seneca is transposed from lower down ( at 45 ) , in Q. The " bug that feared us all " ( 2 ) is also Spenserian and not in Q. The fine metaphor of the cedar and the eagle is ...
... Spenser's old dragon . The tag at the end in the style of Seneca is transposed from lower down ( at 45 ) , in Q. The " bug that feared us all " ( 2 ) is also Spenserian and not in Q. The fine metaphor of the cedar and the eagle is ...
Page xxvi
... SPENSER . Parallels from Spenser are not very striking - not enough to rank as loans - but sufficient to show how Shakespeare was imbued with his writings . Reference will be necessary only to the passages where information is to be ...
... SPENSER . Parallels from Spenser are not very striking - not enough to rank as loans - but sufficient to show how Shakespeare was imbued with his writings . Reference will be necessary only to the passages where information is to be ...
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Page 66 - Would I were dead! if God's good will were so; For what is in this world but grief and woe? O God! methinks, it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring about the day, How many days will finish up the year, How many years a mortal man may live.
Page 95 - I can add colours to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, And set the murderous Machiavel to school.
Page 165 - The bird that hath been limed in a bush, With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush : And I, the hapless male to one sweet bird, Have now the fatal object in my eye, Where my poor young was lim'd, was caught, and kill'd.