The Staple of NewsH. Holt, 1905 - 276 pages |
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Page xxiv
... master Weathercock , And make Sir Lancelot's daughter heir of all ; And make him swear never to show the will To any one , until that you be dead . This done , the foolish changing Weathercock Will straight discourse unto Sir Lancelot ...
... master Weathercock , And make Sir Lancelot's daughter heir of all ; And make him swear never to show the will To any one , until that you be dead . This done , the foolish changing Weathercock Will straight discourse unto Sir Lancelot ...
Page xxxii
... Master Stephen ( Every Man In ) , ' but with- out the natural touches . ' The resemblance is so vague and general as to amount to none at all . I wonder that Gifford did not notice the far closer resemblance of Asotus to Peniboy Junior ...
... Master Stephen ( Every Man In ) , ' but with- out the natural touches . ' The resemblance is so vague and general as to amount to none at all . I wonder that Gifford did not notice the far closer resemblance of Asotus to Peniboy Junior ...
Page xxxv
... master , a notable busy man , who constantly writ over to him at Flushing , when he was resident there as governor , the news and intrigues of the Court . ' Magis- trates on circuit , and other important officials , also had recourse to ...
... master , a notable busy man , who constantly writ over to him at Flushing , when he was resident there as governor , the news and intrigues of the Court . ' Magis- trates on circuit , and other important officials , also had recourse to ...
Page xli
... master - printers to twenty , besides the special establishments allowed to the two Universities . Nothing was to be printed without 1Fox Bourne , Eng . Newsp . 1. 6–7 , note . license from the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Bishop of ...
... master - printers to twenty , besides the special establishments allowed to the two Universities . Nothing was to be printed without 1Fox Bourne , Eng . Newsp . 1. 6–7 , note . license from the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Bishop of ...
Page xlviii
... Master ! 2 The only purpose of this bit of dialogue , which is neither intrinsically entertaining , nor necessary in order to close the action of the Scene , is to characterize the First Clerk and remind the audience of the position of ...
... Master ! 2 The only purpose of this bit of dialogue , which is neither intrinsically entertaining , nor necessary in order to close the action of the Scene , is to characterize the First Clerk and remind the audience of the position of ...
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Page 170 - He the half of life abuses, That sits watering with the Muses. Those dull girls no good can mean us ; Wine it is the milk of Venus,* And the poet's horse accounted : Ply it, and you all are mounted. 'Tis the true Phoebian liquor, Cheers the brains, makes wit the quicker.
Page 136 - It is more than this, the whole world's map, which you may here discern in its perfectest motion, justling and turning. It is a heap of stones and men, with a vast confusion of languages; and were the steeple not sanctified, nothing liker Babel.
Page 146 - 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 211 - The marshalling of coat-armour, which was formerly the pride and study of all the best families in the kingdom, is now greatly disregarded; and has fallen into the hands of certain officers and attendants upon this court, called heralds...
Page 131 - ... whose play it is ; and by that quest of inquiry the law warrants you to avoid much mistaking. If you know not the author, you may rail against him, and peradventure so behave yourself, that you may enforce the author to know you.
Page 134 - ALL tenures being thus derived, or supposed to be derived, from the king, those that held immediately under him, in right of his crown and dignity, were called his tenants in capite...
Page xxxvi - Newes from Scotland : Declaring the damnable Life of Doctor Fian a notable Sorcerer...
Page 125 - But on the very rushes where the comedy is to dance, yea, and under the state of Cambyses himself, must our feathered estrich, like a piece of ordnance, be planted valiantly, because impudently, beating down the mews and hisses of the opposed rascality.
Page 219 - At either corner of this west end is, also of ancient building, a strong tower of stone, made for bell towers : the one of them, to wit, next to the palace, is at...
Page 128 - As when hee said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him ; Caesar thou dost me wrong. Hee replyed : Caesar did never wrong, but with just cause and such like: which were ridiculous.