The Works of Shakespeare ..., Volume 26Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1924 |
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Page viii
... probably a trusted agent of the Lord Chamberlain's Company . " At the same time piracy did exist and was a source of real anxiety both to players and playwrights . The importance of this fact Mr. Pollard does not attempt to minimise ...
... probably a trusted agent of the Lord Chamberlain's Company . " At the same time piracy did exist and was a source of real anxiety both to players and playwrights . The importance of this fact Mr. Pollard does not attempt to minimise ...
Page ix
... probably written between the composition of Henry V. and As You Like It , in the latter part of the year , I 599 . No other edition of the play appeared until the Folio of 1623 , and in this case Heminge and Condell had reason to ...
... probably written between the composition of Henry V. and As You Like It , in the latter part of the year , I 599 . No other edition of the play appeared until the Folio of 1623 , and in this case Heminge and Condell had reason to ...
Page x
... probably made during the intervening years before 1623. ( See notes ad locc . ) The only help given in the Folio is the division into acts . Except for this it has no advantages : its stage directions are nearly as scanty as those of ...
... probably made during the intervening years before 1623. ( See notes ad locc . ) The only help given in the Folio is the division into acts . Except for this it has no advantages : its stage directions are nearly as scanty as those of ...
Page 7
... probably " reckoned five , " as Johnson says , " by analogy to the five senses , or the five inlets of ideas . " Knight points out that " by the early writers the ' five wits ' were used synonymously with the five senses " and he quotes ...
... probably " reckoned five , " as Johnson says , " by analogy to the five senses , or the five inlets of ideas . " Knight points out that " by the early writers the ' five wits ' were used synonymously with the five senses " and he quotes ...
Page 14
... probably , because spent at home . There may be a reference here to the efforts made in Elizabeth's reign to restrict Sunday games and entertainments , for long a grave scandal among the sober- minded . ( See Gosson's School of Abuse ...
... probably , because spent at home . There may be a reference here to the efforts made in Elizabeth's reign to restrict Sunday games and entertainments , for long a grave scandal among the sober- minded . ( See Gosson's School of Abuse ...
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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.