Illustrations of Shakespeare, and of Ancient Manners: With Dissertations on the Clowns and Fools of Shakespeare; on the Collection of Popular Tales Entitled Gesta Romanorum; and on the English Morris Dance, Band 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... worth reading , he is worth explaining ; and the researches used for so valuable and elegant a purpose , merit the thanks of genius and candour , not the satire of prejudice and ignorance . " The indefatigable exertions of Messrs . Stee ...
... worth reading , he is worth explaining ; and the researches used for so valuable and elegant a purpose , merit the thanks of genius and candour , not the satire of prejudice and ignorance . " The indefatigable exertions of Messrs . Stee ...
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... worth illustrating . The above objectors , affec tedly zealous to detect the errors of other men , but more frequently betraying their own self - suf ficiency and over - weening importance , seem to forget that comments and ...
... worth illustrating . The above objectors , affec tedly zealous to detect the errors of other men , but more frequently betraying their own self - suf ficiency and over - weening importance , seem to forget that comments and ...
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... worth adding that in a private diary written at the time , the original price of the volume appears to have been eight shillings . PRO . Sc . 2. p . 36 . urchins Shall , for that vast of night that they may work , All exercise on thee ...
... worth adding that in a private diary written at the time , the original price of the volume appears to have been eight shillings . PRO . Sc . 2. p . 36 . urchins Shall , for that vast of night that they may work , All exercise on thee ...
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... worth retaining in any future edition . His account of the barnacle is extremely confused and imperfect . He makes Gerarde responsible for an opinion not his own ; he substitutes the name of Holinshed for that of Harrison , whose state ...
... worth retaining in any future edition . His account of the barnacle is extremely confused and imperfect . He makes Gerarde responsible for an opinion not his own ; he substitutes the name of Holinshed for that of Harrison , whose state ...
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... information from a passage in Latimer's sermons that the tester was then worth more than six - pence , is so far correct ; but as an inference might be drawn from the quotation that it was D 2 TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA . 35 VAL. ...
... information from a passage in Latimer's sermons that the tester was then worth more than six - pence , is so far correct ; but as an inference might be drawn from the quotation that it was D 2 TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA . 35 VAL. ...
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Seite 14 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Seite 300 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Seite 396 - Howe'er you come to know it, answer me: Though you untie the winds and let them fight Against the churches; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders...
Seite 429 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward.
Seite 3 - I'd divide, And burn in many places ; on the topmast, The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly, Then meet, and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors O...
Seite 410 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Seite 198 - That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide : And we fairies, that do run By the triple Hecate's team...
Seite 478 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Seite 356 - But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler...
Seite 409 - And prithee, lead me in : There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny; 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own.