The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, in Ten Volumes: Midsummer night's dream. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. Taming of the shrewCollins & Hannay, 1823 |
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... sweet counsel together , and walked in the house of God as friends . " MALONE . [ 3 ] Eyne - This plural is common both in Chaucer and Spenser . STEEVENS But herein mean I to enrich my pain , To ACT I. 15 MIDSUMMER - NIGHT'S DREAM .
... sweet counsel together , and walked in the house of God as friends . " MALONE . [ 3 ] Eyne - This plural is common both in Chaucer and Spenser . STEEVENS But herein mean I to enrich my pain , To ACT I. 15 MIDSUMMER - NIGHT'S DREAM .
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... MALONE . [ 4 ] The orbs here mentioned are circles supposed to be made by the fairies on the ground , whose verdure proceeds from the fairies ' care to water them . Thus , Drayton : " They in their courses make that round , " In meadows ...
... MALONE . [ 4 ] The orbs here mentioned are circles supposed to be made by the fairies on the ground , whose verdure proceeds from the fairies ' care to water them . Thus , Drayton : " They in their courses make that round , " In meadows ...
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... MALONE . [ 4 ] i . e . this perturbation of the elements . STEEVENS .. By distemperature , I imagine is meant , in this place , the perturbed state in which the king and queen had lived for some time past . MALONE . [ 5 ] This ...
... MALONE . [ 4 ] i . e . this perturbation of the elements . STEEVENS .. By distemperature , I imagine is meant , in this place , the perturbed state in which the king and queen had lived for some time past . MALONE . [ 5 ] This ...
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... MALONE . GREY . [ 8 ] Page of honour . This office was abolished by queen Elizabeth . Upon the establishment of the household of Edward IV . were " henrmen six enfants , or more , as it pleyseth the king , eatinge in the halle , & c ...
... MALONE . GREY . [ 8 ] Page of honour . This office was abolished by queen Elizabeth . Upon the establishment of the household of Edward IV . were " henrmen six enfants , or more , as it pleyseth the king , eatinge in the halle , & c ...
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... MALONE . [ 1 ] Brake in the west of England is used to express a large extent of ground overgrown with furze , and appears both here and in the next scene to convey the same idea . HENLEY . Pyr . -odours savours sweet : So doth thy ...
... MALONE . [ 1 ] Brake in the west of England is used to express a large extent of ground overgrown with furze , and appears both here and in the next scene to convey the same idea . HENLEY . Pyr . -odours savours sweet : So doth thy ...
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ancient Armado Baptista Beat Beatrice Benedick Bian Bianca Bion BIONDELLO Biron Bora BORACHIO Boyet Claud Claudio Cost Costard daughter Demetrius Dogb dost doth Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair fairy father fool Friar gentle gentleman give grace Gremio hath hear heart Helena Hermia Hero Hippolyta honour Hortensio John JOHNSON Kate Kath Katharine King lady Leon Leonato look lord LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST lovers Lucentio Lysander madam maid MALONE marry master master constable mean mistress moon Moth never night oath Oberon Padua Pedro Petruchio play Pompey pray prince princess Puck Pyramus Queen Quin Re-enter Rosaline SCENE Shakespeare signior sing speak STEEVENS swear sweet tell thee Theseus thing Thisby Titania tongue Tranio troth true unto villain Vincentio WARBURTON word
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Page 238 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!
Page 63 - More strange than true. I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers, and madmen, have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. • The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact...
Page 107 - Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never : Then sigh not so, but let them go, And be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Page 119 - ... need of such vanity. You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch ; therefore bear you the lantern : This is your charge ; You shall comprehend all vagrom men ; you are to bid any man stand, in the prince's name.
Page 63 - One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name.
Page 238 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Page 27 - That very time I saw (but thou could'st not), Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 61 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.