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, Volumen2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... person is a non - entity in history , and in all probability a character invented by the writer of the play . It it presumed that few will be in- clined to agree with Mr. Ritson in supposing him to have been Thomas Bayly a necromancer ...
... person is a non - entity in history , and in all probability a character invented by the writer of the play . It it presumed that few will be in- clined to agree with Mr. Ritson in supposing him to have been Thomas Bayly a necromancer ...
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... person might stumble over them unless proper care were taken . A very whim- sical reason for this practice is given in a curious little tract by Sir Balthazar Gerbier , entitled , Councel and advice to all builders , 1663 , 24mo , in ...
... person might stumble over them unless proper care were taken . A very whim- sical reason for this practice is given in a curious little tract by Sir Balthazar Gerbier , entitled , Councel and advice to all builders , 1663 , 24mo , in ...
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... not write the whole of these plays ; but that they were composed by some person who had more classical knowledge , but infinitely less genius than our author . KING RICHARD III . ACT I. Scene 1. Page 461 KING HENRY VI . PART III . 31.
... not write the whole of these plays ; but that they were composed by some person who had more classical knowledge , but infinitely less genius than our author . KING RICHARD III . ACT I. Scene 1. Page 461 KING HENRY VI . PART III . 31.
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... crying out clubs , that it was usually adopted in any quarrel or tumult in the streets ; but it remains to point out the persons that were so called , because the watchmen's weapon was the bill E 2 KING HENRY VIII . 51.
... crying out clubs , that it was usually adopted in any quarrel or tumult in the streets ; but it remains to point out the persons that were so called , because the watchmen's weapon was the bill E 2 KING HENRY VIII . 51.
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... person . Lydgate has only followed his predecessor Guido of Colonna , who , ( or perhaps the original writer Benoit de Saint More , ) adopting the statement in the prologue to Dares Phrygius , appears to regard the latter as a more ...
... person . Lydgate has only followed his predecessor Guido of Colonna , who , ( or perhaps the original writer Benoit de Saint More , ) adopting the statement in the prologue to Dares Phrygius , appears to regard the latter as a more ...
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Página 85 - Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the rang'd empire fall ! Here is my space. Kingdoms are clay : our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man : the nobleness of life Is to do thus ; when such a mutual pair [Embracing.
Página 200 - And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and at his warning. Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
Página 272 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Página 86 - I'll leave you, lady. Cleo. Courteous lord, one word. Sir, you and I must part, — but that's not it: Sir, you and I have lov'd, — but there's not it; That you know well : Something it is I would, — O, my oblivion is a very Antony, And I am all forgotten.
Página 82 - When beggars die there are no comets seen ; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Página 168 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools; This...
Página 167 - Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand! Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back; Thou hotly lust'st to use her in that kind For which thou whipp'st her.
Página 185 - For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give...
Página 250 - ... would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Página 245 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.