The Works of Shakespeare ..., Volume 26Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1924 |
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Page xi
... seems an unpromis- ing foundation for a comedy . It turns on the stratagem by which a lover is tricked into the belief that his betrothed is false . Before ever the buccaneering genius of Shakespeare laid this theme under contribution ...
... seems an unpromis- ing foundation for a comedy . It turns on the stratagem by which a lover is tricked into the belief that his betrothed is false . Before ever the buccaneering genius of Shakespeare laid this theme under contribution ...
Page xii
... seems to have borrowed from both these Italian versions . The tale opens with the dark tragedy of the Sicilian vespers . Urged by the Pope , King Pedro of Arragon descends upon Sicily and seizes the island . He next defeats King Charles ...
... seems to have borrowed from both these Italian versions . The tale opens with the dark tragedy of the Sicilian vespers . Urged by the Pope , King Pedro of Arragon descends upon Sicily and seizes the island . He next defeats King Charles ...
Page xiii
... seems to leave her body . It is not until her funeral rites have been appointed that her mother finds that she is still alive . The girl is sent secretly to her uncle's country house and the supposed funeral takes place , all Messina ...
... seems to leave her body . It is not until her funeral rites have been appointed that her mother finds that she is still alive . The girl is sent secretly to her uncle's country house and the supposed funeral takes place , all Messina ...
Page xv
... seems neither reasonable nor likely that a play should be called Much adoe abowte nothinge in one entry and in the item immediately following should be given a different title . It has therefore been suggested that Benedick and Betteris ...
... seems neither reasonable nor likely that a play should be called Much adoe abowte nothinge in one entry and in the item immediately following should be given a different title . It has therefore been suggested that Benedick and Betteris ...
Page xxi
... seem artificial and - in the bad sense - theatrical.1 We leave as a pleasantly insoluble problem this theory of the old play and its subsequent revision . There is , however , connected with the absorbing question of Shakespeare's hand ...
... seem artificial and - in the bad sense - theatrical.1 We leave as a pleasantly insoluble problem this theory of the old play and its subsequent revision . There is , however , connected with the absorbing question of Shakespeare's hand ...
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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.