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... present edition . I wish to express my gratitude to Professor Albert S. Cook for his continual interest and help in my work ; and to other members of Yale University for their kindly assistance - Professor Thomas R. Lounsbury ...
... present edition . I wish to express my gratitude to Professor Albert S. Cook for his continual interest and help in my work ; and to other members of Yale University for their kindly assistance - Professor Thomas R. Lounsbury ...
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... present existence of quartos earlier than one of 1620 meets with success . A communica- tion sent by me to Notes and Queries , August 23 , 1903 , asking for information on the subject , received no answer , nor did a similar ...
... present existence of quartos earlier than one of 1620 meets with success . A communica- tion sent by me to Notes and Queries , August 23 , 1903 , asking for information on the subject , received no answer , nor did a similar ...
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... present edition , not only because it exhibits the most consistency and contains fewest apparent errors in reading and type , but because the Quarto of 1620 chooses it for reproduction . The selection of the text at that time must have ...
... present edition , not only because it exhibits the most consistency and contains fewest apparent errors in reading and type , but because the Quarto of 1620 chooses it for reproduction . The selection of the text at that time must have ...
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... present the standard for Jonson's complete works . Vol . 3 , In the Mermaid Series Dr. Nicholson was to have edited three volumes of the plays of Jonson , but his labor went no further than vols . 1 and 2 issued in 1893-4 . containing ...
... present the standard for Jonson's complete works . Vol . 3 , In the Mermaid Series Dr. Nicholson was to have edited three volumes of the plays of Jonson , but his labor went no further than vols . 1 and 2 issued in 1893-4 . containing ...
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... present day . On fair Collegiates let no critick frown ! A Ladies ' Club still holds its rank in town . If modern Cooks , who nightly treat the pit , Do not quite cloy and surfeit you with wit , From the old kitchen please to pick a bit ...
... present day . On fair Collegiates let no critick frown ! A Ladies ' Club still holds its rank in town . If modern Cooks , who nightly treat the pit , Do not quite cloy and surfeit you with wit , From the old kitchen please to pick a bit ...
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Page 110 - Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Gospel of the kingdom of God, 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled/ and the kingdom of God is at hand : repent ye, and believe the Gospel.
Page 273 - Clarius' harp want strings, That not a nymph now sings? Or droop they as disgraced To see their seats and bowers by chattering pies defaced? If hence thy silence be, As 'tis too just a cause, Let this thought...
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Page lxv - ... unexpectedly in upon us, it overflows us : but a long sober shower gives them leisure to run out as they came in, without troubling the ordinary current. As for comedy, repartee is one of its chiefest graces ; the greatest pleasure of the audience is a chase of wit, kept up on both sides, and swiftly managed.
Page 149 - ... as for gentlemen, they be made good cheap in England. For whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth liberal sciences, and, to be short, who can live idly and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called Master, for that is the title which men give to esquires and other gentlemen, and shall be taken for a gentleman...
Page 166 - 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.
Page 245 - A tragi-comedy is not so called in respect of mirth and killing, but in respect it wants deaths, which is enough to make it no tragedy, yet brings some near to it, which is enough to make it no comedy...
Page 169 - Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found her...
Page 127 - ... forgiveness; so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too— Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out— And take...