Shakspere's As You Like itLongman, Green, and Company, 1896 - 102 pages |
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Page ix
... give their time and money to see it on the stage . Really to understand it , then , one must somehow or other enjoy it . The first thing to do is to read it through . Unlike a long novel or an epic poem , a play is always meant , origi ...
... give their time and money to see it on the stage . Really to understand it , then , one must somehow or other enjoy it . The first thing to do is to read it through . Unlike a long novel or an epic poem , a play is always meant , origi ...
Page xvii
... give his audience something like the infor- mation they might have got by reading the original text . What a dramatist did who wrote comedy or tragedy proves to have been about the same thing . In some story - book , or some old play ...
... give his audience something like the infor- mation they might have got by reading the original text . What a dramatist did who wrote comedy or tragedy proves to have been about the same thing . In some story - book , or some old play ...
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... gives me , the something that nature gave me his countenance ' seems to take from me : he lets me feed with his hinds , bars me the place of a brother , and , as much as in him lies , mines " my gentility with my education . This is it ...
... gives me , the something that nature gave me his countenance ' seems to take from me : he lets me feed with his hinds , bars me the place of a brother , and , as much as in him lies , mines " my gentility with my education . This is it ...
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... give me good educa- tion you have trained me like a peasant , obscuring and hiding from me all gentleman - like qualities . The spirit of my father grows strong in me , and I will no longer endure it : therefore allow me such exercises ...
... give me good educa- tion you have trained me like a peasant , obscuring and hiding from me all gentleman - like qualities . The spirit of my father grows strong in me , and I will no longer endure it : therefore allow me such exercises ...
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... give no thousand crowns neither . Holla , Dennis ! speare Enter DENNIS . DEN . Calls your worship ? OLI . Was not ... gives them good leave to wander . 101 OLI . Can you tell if Rosalind , the Duke's daughter , be banished with her ...
... give no thousand crowns neither . Holla , Dennis ! speare Enter DENNIS . DEN . Calls your worship ? OLI . Was not ... gives them good leave to wander . 101 OLI . Can you tell if Rosalind , the Duke's daughter , be banished with her ...
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ADAM Assistant Professor Audrey bear BEAU beauty better Brander Matthews brother characters Charles comedy CORIN court cousin daughter doth DUKE F ENGLISH CLASSICS English History Enter ORLANDO Enter ROSALIND Exeunt Exit eyes fair faith father fool forest of Arden fortune Ganymede gentle give H. C. BEECH hand hath heart hither honour introduction and notes Jaques Julius Cæsar ladies literature live LONGMANS look lord Love's Labour's Lost lover marry master Merchant of Venice mistress never Oliver Orlando Phebe play plot Portrait pray pretty prithee Professor of Rhetoric reading ROSALIND and CELIA Roxbury Latin School SCENE Shakspere Shakspere's shepherd SILAS MARNER SILVIUS speak sweet teachers tell thee thing thou art TOUCH TOUCHSTONE University verses volume William Lyon Phelps withal woman word wrestling write young youth
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Page 25 - NOW, my co-mates, and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court ? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons...
Page 30 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 40 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
Page 76 - Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night ; for good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont, and being taken with the cramp, was drowned, and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was — Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies ; men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Page 36 - And loves to live i' the sun, Seeking the food he eats And pleased with what he gets, Come hither, come hither, come hither: Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather.
Page 42 - I thought that all things had been savage here, And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment. But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time...
Page 43 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits, and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms; And then, the whining school-boy, with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school: And then, the lover; Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress...
Page 30 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed ! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat, but for promotion; And having that, do choke their service up Even with the having: it is not so with thee.
Page 44 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Page 39 - No, sir," quoth he, "Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune." And then he drew a dial from his poke, And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock. Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags.