The Works of Shakespeare ..., Volume 26Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1924 |
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Page xvi
... reference to Antonio's son , I. ii . I ; and in the unexplained allusions Beatrice makes to events of which the audience knows nothing in I. i . 35 ( “ He set up his bills here in Messina , " etc. ) and II . i . 260 ( “ Indeed , my lord ...
... reference to Antonio's son , I. ii . I ; and in the unexplained allusions Beatrice makes to events of which the audience knows nothing in I. i . 35 ( “ He set up his bills here in Messina , " etc. ) and II . i . 260 ( “ Indeed , my lord ...
Page xviii
... reference to the original sources , without our having to take refuge in the theory of survivals from an old play . The difficulty of Margaret's share in the plot is , in fact , inherent in the original story . In the versions of both ...
... reference to the original sources , without our having to take refuge in the theory of survivals from an old play . The difficulty of Margaret's share in the plot is , in fact , inherent in the original story . In the versions of both ...
Page xxiii
... references to the ludicrous insufficiency of night - watchmen and constables . Tarleton's Jest Book alone , if we could trust to the authenticity of the incidents he de- scribes , would show that in the presentation of Dogberry and his ...
... references to the ludicrous insufficiency of night - watchmen and constables . Tarleton's Jest Book alone , if we could trust to the authenticity of the incidents he de- scribes , would show that in the presentation of Dogberry and his ...
Page 4
... reference to him here helps to connect the Florentine Claudio with Messina , and to explain how he had become acquainted with Hero before this ended action . ' " It also serves , like many lines in this play , to give a wider and more ...
... reference to him here helps to connect the Florentine Claudio with Messina , and to explain how he had become acquainted with Hero before this ended action . ' " It also serves , like many lines in this play , to give a wider and more ...
Page 7
... reference to the three stones of the old philosophers : - " The Ston seconde I thee behote Is lapis animalis hote , The whos vertu is propre and cowth For Ere and yhe and nase and mouth , Wherof a man may hiere and se And smelle and ...
... reference to the three stones of the old philosophers : - " The Ston seconde I thee behote Is lapis animalis hote , The whos vertu is propre and cowth For Ere and yhe and nase and mouth , Wherof a man may hiere and se And smelle and ...
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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.