Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1847 |
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... fairy or pastoral land , and informed him what manner of life the inhabitants of that region lead ? We cannot open a page of Sydney's ' Arcadia ' without being struck with what we are accustomed to call anachronisms , —and these from a ...
... fairy or pastoral land , and informed him what manner of life the inhabitants of that region lead ? We cannot open a page of Sydney's ' Arcadia ' without being struck with what we are accustomed to call anachronisms , —and these from a ...
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... fairy land : O , spite of spites ! We talk with goblins , owls , and elvish sprites . They'll suck our breath , or pinch us black and blue . Luc . Why prat'st thou to thyself , and answer'st not ? Dromio , thou Dromio , thou snail ...
... fairy land : O , spite of spites ! We talk with goblins , owls , and elvish sprites . They'll suck our breath , or pinch us black and blue . Luc . Why prat'st thou to thyself , and answer'st not ? Dromio , thou Dromio , thou snail ...
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... fairy , pitiless and rough ; A wolf , nay , worse , a fellow all in buff ; A back - friend , a shoulder - clapper , one that counter- mands The passages of alleys , creeks , and narrow lands : A hound that runs counter , and yet draws ...
... fairy , pitiless and rough ; A wolf , nay , worse , a fellow all in buff ; A back - friend , a shoulder - clapper , one that counter- mands The passages of alleys , creeks , and narrow lands : A hound that runs counter , and yet draws ...
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... fairy land ” — “ In the first act we have a description of the unlawful arts of Ephesus . It was observed by Capell that the character given of Ephe- sus in this place is the very same that it had with the ancients , which may pass for ...
... fairy land ” — “ In the first act we have a description of the unlawful arts of Ephesus . It was observed by Capell that the character given of Ephe- sus in this place is the very same that it had with the ancients , which may pass for ...
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... fairy - land of his own imagination . " Shakespeare has set himself to imitate the tone of polite conversation then prevailing among the fair , the witty , and the learned ; and he has imitated it but too faithfully . It is as if the ...
... fairy - land of his own imagination . " Shakespeare has set himself to imitate the tone of polite conversation then prevailing among the fair , the witty , and the learned ; and he has imitated it but too faithfully . It is as if the ...
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 3 John Payne Collier,Charles Knight No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 25 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet...
Page 38 - 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 32 - Have waked their sleepers ; oped, and let them forth By my so potent art. But this rough magic I here abjure ; and, when I have requir'd Some heavenly music, (which even now I do) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Page 45 - Will in that station, was the faint, general, and almost lost ideas, he had of having once seen him act a part in one of his own comedies, wherein being to personate a decrepit old man, he wore a long beard, and appeared so weak and drooping and unable to walk, that he was forced to be supported and carried by another person to a table, at which he was seated among some company who were eating, and one of them sung a song.