The Works of Shakespeare ..., Volume 26Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1924 |
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... expression and the masterly handling of materials which also distinguish the plays of this period . Much Ado About Nothing was probably written between the composition of Henry V. and As You Like It , in the latter part of the year , I ...
... expression and the masterly handling of materials which also distinguish the plays of this period . Much Ado About Nothing was probably written between the composition of Henry V. and As You Like It , in the latter part of the year , I ...
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... expression of her personal feelings . It is this singular quiescence in the early scenes of the play , when her wooing and wedding are under discussion , that helps to rob the church scene of too sharp a pain . Lastly , by the time ...
... expression of her personal feelings . It is this singular quiescence in the early scenes of the play , when her wooing and wedding are under discussion , that helps to rob the church scene of too sharp a pain . Lastly , by the time ...
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... , and as such an expression of modesty " ( W. A. Wright ) . = 25. A kind ... kindness ] kind in- stinctive , natural , true to nature ; as Beat . I pray you , is Signior Mountanto returned 4 [ ACT 1 . MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
... , and as such an expression of modesty " ( W. A. Wright ) . = 25. A kind ... kindness ] kind in- stinctive , natural , true to nature ; as Beat . I pray you , is Signior Mountanto returned 4 [ ACT 1 . MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
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... expression . • 62. wit enough warm ] A pro- verbial expression . See The Taming of the Shrew , II . i . 268 ; the Epigrams of John Heywood ( Spenser Society , p . 148 ) : - : - " Thou art wyse inough , if thou keepe thee warme : But the ...
... expression . • 62. wit enough warm ] A pro- verbial expression . See The Taming of the Shrew , II . i . 268 ; the Epigrams of John Heywood ( Spenser Society , p . 148 ) : - : - " Thou art wyse inough , if thou keepe thee warme : But the ...
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... expression " to be in a person's good or bad books " corresponds to the old " to be in or out of a person's books . " See Middleton's The Widow , 1. i . 92 ( Works , ed . Bullen , v . 129 ) : " But I must have him wise as well as proper ...
... expression " to be in a person's good or bad books " corresponds to the old " to be in or out of a person's books . " See Middleton's The Widow , 1. i . 92 ( Works , ed . Bullen , v . 129 ) : " But I must have him wise as well as proper ...
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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.