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Page ix
... gives us of country life , sports , and manners in England , which we have not elsewhere drawn for us with the same fulness by Shake- speare . The first group of these characteristics is mainly debatable and uncertain ground ...
... gives us of country life , sports , and manners in England , which we have not elsewhere drawn for us with the same fulness by Shake- speare . The first group of these characteristics is mainly debatable and uncertain ground ...
Page xii
... ? My reply to this is some- what similar to what Mr. Daniel gives as to the origin of the Quarto ; it is , in fact , almost identical , but I arrive at it in a somewhat different manner . same view of the xii INTRODUCTION.
... ? My reply to this is some- what similar to what Mr. Daniel gives as to the origin of the Quarto ; it is , in fact , almost identical , but I arrive at it in a somewhat different manner . same view of the xii INTRODUCTION.
Page xvi
... gives evidence here again of faulty con- densation . Any one about to compress the Fifth Act would infallibly omit " mum " and " mumbudget . " This the Quarto has done , but has let the words appear abruptly and unex- pectedly at the ...
... gives evidence here again of faulty con- densation . Any one about to compress the Fifth Act would infallibly omit " mum " and " mumbudget . " This the Quarto has done , but has let the words appear abruptly and unex- pectedly at the ...
Page xxi
... Give me thy hand , terrestrial ; so " ( III . i . 107 ) , and at " to say my prayers " ( IV . v . 106 ) . In these particular instances we are to suppose these words have acci- dentally dropped out of the Folio text , and we supply them ...
... Give me thy hand , terrestrial ; so " ( III . i . 107 ) , and at " to say my prayers " ( IV . v . 106 ) . In these particular instances we are to suppose these words have acci- dentally dropped out of the Folio text , and we supply them ...
Page xxviii
... gives one detail which tradition itself probably supplied . This earlier notice is given at length in Mr. Halliwell's Introduction to his 1842 edition of the Quarto , from a long dedicatory epistle to a play by John Dennis , called The ...
... gives one detail which tradition itself probably supplied . This earlier notice is given at length in Mr. Halliwell's Introduction to his 1842 edition of the Quarto , from a long dedicatory epistle to a play by John Dennis , called The ...
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Page 38 - Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: 8 who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. 9 He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Page 202 - Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet...
Page lxvii - The moral to be drawn from this representation is, that no man is more dangerous than he that, with a will to corrupt, hath the power to please ; and that neither wit nor honesty ought to think themselves safe with such a companion, when they see Henry seduced by Falstaff.
Page x - ... of Auncient Pistoll, and Corporall Nym. By William Shakespeare. As it hath bene diuers times Acted by the right Honorable my lord Chamberlaines seruants. Both before her Maiestie, and else-where. London Printed by TC for Arthur Johnson, and are to be sold at his shop in Powles Church-yard, at the signe of the Flower de Leuse and the Crowne. 1602.