The Works of Shakespeare ..., Volume 26Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1924 |
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... Don Quixote's library . To neither of these does Shakespeare owe any direct debt . Ariosto's treatment of the story ... John Harington in 1591 ; the Genevra episode had been translated as early as 1565 by Peter Beverley . Shakespeare ...
... Don Quixote's library . To neither of these does Shakespeare owe any direct debt . Ariosto's treatment of the story ... John Harington in 1591 ; the Genevra episode had been translated as early as 1565 by Peter Beverley . Shakespeare ...
Page xii
... Don Timbreo di Cardona , a favourite with the king and a gallant soldier , falls in love with Fenicia , daughter of ... John Payne , 1890 , vol . i . , p . 302 , the twentieth story . incriminating words ; he sees a ladder placed against ...
... Don Timbreo di Cardona , a favourite with the king and a gallant soldier , falls in love with Fenicia , daughter of ... John Payne , 1890 , vol . i . , p . 302 , the twentieth story . incriminating words ; he sees a ladder placed against ...
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... Don John is the mainspring of the plot of this play ; but he is merely shown and then withdrawn . " One ventures with great hesitation to disagree with Coleridge , but here he was , I think , a little over anxious to prove his point ...
... Don John is the mainspring of the plot of this play ; but he is merely shown and then withdrawn . " One ventures with great hesitation to disagree with Coleridge , but here he was , I think , a little over anxious to prove his point ...
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... John is allowed to reach the desired consum- mation . The absurdity of Dogberry is thus woven into the very texture of the plot , is made responsible for its un- folding . Don John's part is also , perhaps , unduly depreciated by ...
... John is allowed to reach the desired consum- mation . The absurdity of Dogberry is thus woven into the very texture of the plot , is made responsible for its un- folding . Don John's part is also , perhaps , unduly depreciated by ...
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... Don John hatefully sneering , and Claudio in melodious rhetoric that we suspect was prepared beforehand ( IV . i . 84-105 ) . This vividness of dialogue , so rich , so various and adapt- able , is the distinguishing feature of the play ...
... Don John hatefully sneering , and Claudio in melodious rhetoric that we suspect was prepared beforehand ( IV . i . 84-105 ) . This vividness of dialogue , so rich , so various and adapt- able , is the distinguishing feature of the play ...
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Page 75 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 67 - I have railed so long against marriage: But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth, that he cannot endure in his age: Shall quips, and sentences, and these paper bullets of the brain, awe a man from the career of his humour? No: The world must be peopled. When I said, I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.— Here comes Beatrice : By this day, she's a fair lady : I do spy some marks of love in her.
Page 39 - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love : Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues ; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent : for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Page 86 - Why then, take no note of him, but let him go ; and presently call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave.