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Page vii
... Quarto by a considerable number of mostly unimportant variations generally for the better . These will be dealt with later in the present Introduction . Sidney Lee classes this Quarto amongst those in which " comparatively few faults ...
... Quarto by a considerable number of mostly unimportant variations generally for the better . These will be dealt with later in the present Introduction . Sidney Lee classes this Quarto amongst those in which " comparatively few faults ...
Page xvii
... to his line of argument from metrical tests , but it is advisable to give his views at greater length , as expressed in his Introduction to Griggs ' b facsimile of the first Quarto , because not only is INTRODUCTION xvii.
... to his line of argument from metrical tests , but it is advisable to give his views at greater length , as expressed in his Introduction to Griggs ' b facsimile of the first Quarto , because not only is INTRODUCTION xvii.
Page xviii
William Shakespeare William James Craig, Robert Hope Case. facsimile of the first Quarto , because not only is his date the most acceptable to me , but he couples with that date ( 1590 ) his belief that Love's Labour's Lost was ...
William Shakespeare William James Craig, Robert Hope Case. facsimile of the first Quarto , because not only is his date the most acceptable to me , but he couples with that date ( 1590 ) his belief that Love's Labour's Lost was ...
Page xxxv
... Quarto of Love's Labour's Lost were published in the same year , and the play was not then new . " But he omits to mention the fact that Sidney's " dramatic interlude " was performed before the queen at Wanstead in 1578 , which made it ...
... Quarto of Love's Labour's Lost were published in the same year , and the play was not then new . " But he omits to mention the fact that Sidney's " dramatic interlude " was performed before the queen at Wanstead in 1578 , which made it ...
Page l
... Quarto . Some consideration must be given to the well - known statement of the editors of the Folio , which , if words have any meaning , imply that they had access to reliable " copy , " whether prompter's or manuscript , it is unsafe ...
... Quarto . Some consideration must be given to the well - known statement of the editors of the Folio , which , if words have any meaning , imply that they had access to reliable " copy , " whether prompter's or manuscript , it is unsafe ...
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Page 104 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain ; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Page 32 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Page 179 - Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose influence is begot of that loose grace Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools : A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Page 182 - 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...
Page 73 - Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts...
Page 27 - Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.
Page 182 - And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, 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 3 - The endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour, which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity.
Page viii - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for comedy, witnes his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors...
Page 169 - I tell you, sirs, that I judge no land in England better bestowed than that which is given to our universities; for by their maintenance our realm shall be well governed when we be dead and rotten.