A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Much adoe about nothing. 1899J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1899 |
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... question of origin , the Quarto of Much Ado about Nothing shares in common with all the other Quartos , and , in addi- tion , has a tidy little mystery of its own , which it shares with only three or four other Plays . The earliest ...
... question of origin , the Quarto of Much Ado about Nothing shares in common with all the other Quartos , and , in addi- tion , has a tidy little mystery of its own , which it shares with only three or four other Plays . The earliest ...
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... questions of its Date of Composition , came to an end with MALONE , of whom , in this regard , I am afraid GRATTAN's description is true , when he spoke of that worthy commentator as ' going about looking through strongly magnifying ...
... questions of its Date of Composition , came to an end with MALONE , of whom , in this regard , I am afraid GRATTAN's description is true , when he spoke of that worthy commentator as ' going about looking through strongly magnifying ...
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... question is germane to the present subject only in so far as that , if BRAE be correct , the Date of Composition may be placed at any indefinite time before 1598. His argument , that the present play is Love's Labours Won will be found ...
... question is germane to the present subject only in so far as that , if BRAE be correct , the Date of Composition may be placed at any indefinite time before 1598. His argument , that the present play is Love's Labours Won will be found ...
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... - strong , violent tyrant at the head of ' a mighty power ' should , merely after ' some question with ' ' an old religious man , ' be ' converted ' and instantly relinquish his campaign and retire from the world ? PREFACE xix.
... - strong , violent tyrant at the head of ' a mighty power ' should , merely after ' some question with ' ' an old religious man , ' be ' converted ' and instantly relinquish his campaign and retire from the world ? PREFACE xix.
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... question of the Source of a portion of the Plot . In the present play , as in others of SHAKESPEARE , there are two sep- arate actions : here , there is the false personation of Hero , and the deceit practised on Beatrice and Benedick ...
... question of the Source of a portion of the Plot . In the present play , as in others of SHAKESPEARE , there are two sep- arate actions : here , there is the false personation of Hero , and the deceit practised on Beatrice and Benedick ...
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Seite 196 - His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
Seite 57 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Seite 335 - Occidentals at the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth.
Seite 239 - O, I do fear thee, Claudio ; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Seite 43 - For occasion, as it is in the common verse, turneth a bald noddle, after she hath presented her locks in front, and no hold taken : or at least turneth the handle of the bottle first to be received, and after the belly, which is hard to clasp.
Seite 38 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir, As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors ; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Seite vii - ... a double sale of their labours, first to the stage, and after to the press, for my own XiI part I here proclaim myself ever faithful in the first, and never guilty of the last.
Seite 51 - When we mean to build. We first survey the plot, then draw the model ; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection ; Which if we find outweighs ability, What do we then but draw anew the model In fewer offices, or at least desist To build at all...
Seite 234 - Come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe ; Give not a windy night a rainy morrow, To linger out a purposed overthrow. If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last, When other petty griefs have done their spite, But in the onset come ; so shall I taste At first the very worst of fortune's might ; And other strains of woe, which now seem woe, Compared with loss of thee will not seem so.
Seite 344 - Perhaps that middle point of comedy was never more nicely hit in which the ludicrous blends with the tender, and our follies, turning round against themselves in support of our affections, retain nothing but their humanity.