Shakspere's As You Like itLongman, Green, and Company, 1896 - 102 pages |
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Page ix
... readers did not enjoy it , they would not read it unconstrained ; if audiences did not en- joy it , they would not give their time and money to see it on the stage . Really to understand it , then , one must somehow or other enjoy it ...
... readers did not enjoy it , they would not read it unconstrained ; if audiences did not en- joy it , they would not give their time and money to see it on the stage . Really to understand it , then , one must somehow or other enjoy it ...
Page x
... reader does not enjoy the play they deal with , they fail to do their purpose . If without them a reader can heartily enjoy his reading , he has the less need for them . With a piece of literature like this comedy , en- joyment should ...
... reader does not enjoy the play they deal with , they fail to do their purpose . If without them a reader can heartily enjoy his reading , he has the less need for them . With a piece of literature like this comedy , en- joyment should ...
Page xvi
... reader or play - goer is aware , or need be . When one grows critical , however , it is often worth while - because it often adds to one's enjoyment - to consider how this effect is produced , and so to make clear to oneself just what ...
... reader or play - goer is aware , or need be . When one grows critical , however , it is often worth while - because it often adds to one's enjoyment - to consider how this effect is produced , and so to make clear to oneself just what ...
Page xvii
... 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 , he found a plot which he thought would be interesting ; this he proceeded ...
... 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 , he found a plot which he thought would be interesting ; this he proceeded ...
Page xx
... reader would do who was called on to render the part in public . At first , these speeches and passages seem independent things , much as do the speeches and the acts of living people whom we observe in actual life . The acts and ...
... reader would do who was called on to render the part in public . At first , these speeches and passages seem independent things , much as do the speeches and the acts of living people whom we observe in actual life . The acts and ...
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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.