The Knight of Our Burning PestleH. Holt, 1908 - 309 pages |
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Page iv
... passages mod- ernizes such markedly obsolete spelling as sute for shoot ( 1. 164 ) , and introduces a good emendation , viz . These for There ( 4. 292 ) . On the other hand , it makes arbitrary alterations , i . e . Grocers for Grocery ...
... passages mod- ernizes such markedly obsolete spelling as sute for shoot ( 1. 164 ) , and introduces a good emendation , viz . These for There ( 4. 292 ) . On the other hand , it makes arbitrary alterations , i . e . Grocers for Grocery ...
Page v
... passages which they happened to regard as difficult ; while , moreover , out of their own unenlight- ened assurance , they dared to alter words and even passages , more frequently to the detriment than to the strengthening of the sense ...
... passages which they happened to regard as difficult ; while , moreover , out of their own unenlight- ened assurance , they dared to alter words and even passages , more frequently to the detriment than to the strengthening of the sense ...
Page vii
... passages . But though painstaking , conscientious , and often successful in supplying useful features to his edition , Weber , as a foreigner , was not properly equipped to edit English dramatists . Gifford says : Mr. Weber had never ...
... passages . But though painstaking , conscientious , and often successful in supplying useful features to his edition , Weber , as a foreigner , was not properly equipped to edit English dramatists . Gifford says : Mr. Weber had never ...
Page ix
... passages . The remaining editions of Beaumont and Fletcher which include our play are reprints of preceding ones , and hence do not demand detailed notice . The text of 1778 was embodied in a four - volume edition of the plays of Ben ...
... passages . The remaining editions of Beaumont and Fletcher which include our play are reprints of preceding ones , and hence do not demand detailed notice . The text of 1778 was embodied in a four - volume edition of the plays of Ben ...
Page x
... passages are altered or expurgated ; but there is no distinctiveness about the book , and it does not call for extended description . Dyce's text is incorporated , save for a few slight alterations , in the two volumes of Beaumont and ...
... passages are altered or expurgated ; but there is no distinctiveness about the book , and it does not call for extended description . Dyce's text is incorporated , save for a few slight alterations , in the two volumes of Beaumont and ...
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Page 123 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon ; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowne'd honour by the locks...
Page 152 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.
Page 156 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page 109 - Afric of the other, and so many other under-kingdoms that the player, when he cometh in, must ever begin with telling where he is ; or else the tale will not be conceived. Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear...
Page 114 - Centuries ; being a Series of Extracts, Local, Social, and Political, from the Archives of the City of London, AD 1276-1419.
Page 186 - A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward? Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face? Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs?
Page xix - Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage; two of theirs being acted through the year for one of Shakespeare's or Jonson's...
Page 235 - It was anciently the custom for all ranks of people to go out a maying on the first of May. It is on record that King Henry VIII. and Queen Katharine partook of this diversion" (STEEVENS): "Stowe says, that, 'in the month of May, namely, on May-day in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and green woods ; there to rejoice their spirits with the beauty and savour of sweet flowers, and with the noise [ie music] of birds, praising God in their kind.
Page 165 - A pick-axe, and a spade, a spade, For and a shrouding sheet : O, a pit of clay for to be made For such a guest is meet.