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... lines 7 and 8 : Broomes sweeping ( s ) doe as well Thear as his Masters Meale . Gifford's explanation of the difference in the versions is : ' There seems to have existed a wish among the poet's friends to embroil him with his old ...
... lines 7 and 8 : Broomes sweeping ( s ) doe as well Thear as his Masters Meale . Gifford's explanation of the difference in the versions is : ' There seems to have existed a wish among the poet's friends to embroil him with his old ...
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... lines to his son , ' Sam Smith , upon his Minerva ; and Dekker wrote verses ' to my Sonne Broom.'4 The explanation of this custom offered by Sir Harris Nicolas , that it was a practice which originated among the alchemists , I think ...
... lines to his son , ' Sam Smith , upon his Minerva ; and Dekker wrote verses ' to my Sonne Broom.'4 The explanation of this custom offered by Sir Harris Nicolas , that it was a practice which originated among the alchemists , I think ...
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... lines to Fletcher's memory in the folio of 1647. After a long and humorously humble intro- duction on the subject of how he dares appear in the company of the great , he says of Fletcher2 : You that have known him , know The common talk ...
... lines to Fletcher's memory in the folio of 1647. After a long and humorously humble intro- duction on the subject of how he dares appear in the company of the great , he says of Fletcher2 : You that have known him , know The common talk ...
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... lines . Brome contributed some to Shakerley Mar- mion's Cupid and Psyche ( 1637 ) , Thomas Jordan's Poetical Varieties ( 1637 ) , and John Tatham's Fancies Theatre ( 1640 ) . Tatham , in return , contributed to the Jovial Crew , and ...
... lines . Brome contributed some to Shakerley Mar- mion's Cupid and Psyche ( 1637 ) , Thomas Jordan's Poetical Varieties ( 1637 ) , and John Tatham's Fancies Theatre ( 1640 ) . Tatham , in return , contributed to the Jovial Crew , and ...
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... line , Because tis good , as well ' s because tis thine . But the evidence of Alexander Brome's devotion to his friend does not rest on these lines alone . It is to him as editor that we owe the preservation of ten plays . In 1653 he ...
... line , Because tis good , as well ' s because tis thine . But the evidence of Alexander Brome's devotion to his friend does not rest on these lines alone . It is to him as editor that we owe the preservation of ten plays . In 1653 he ...
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Page 175 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth : but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil : but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Page 128 - 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.
Page 113 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
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Page 131 - While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field? Now of time they are much more liberal. For ordinary it is that two young princes fall in love; after many traverses she is got with child, delivered of a fair boy, he is lost, groweth a man, falleth in love, and is ready to get another child, — and all this in two hours...
Page 190 - There dwelt a man in Babylon Of reputation great by fame ; He took to wife a faire woman, Susanna she was callde by name : A woman fair and vertuous ; Lady, lady : Why should we not of her learn thus To live godly ? If this song of Corydon, &c., has not more merit, it is at least an evil of less magnitude.
Page 140 - XVIII. The Expression of Purpose in Old English Prose. HUBERT GIBSON SHEARIN, Ph.D. $1.00. XIX. Classical Mythology in Shakespeare. ROBERT KILBURN ROOT, Ph.D. $1.00. XX. The Controversy between the Puritans and the Stage. ELBERT NS THOMPSON, Ph.D. $2.00. XXI. The Elene of Cynewulf, translated into English Prose.
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Page 140 - XXII. King Alfred's Old English Version of St. Augustine's Soliloquies, turned into Modern English. HENRY LEE HARGROVE, Ph.D. $0.75.
Page 109 - Servants, with great Applause: Written by the memorable worthies of their time, Mr. John Fletcher and Mr. William Shakespeare, Gent.