As You Like itGinn & Company, 1893 - 159 pages |
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... Touchstone . Touchstone , though he nowhere strikes so deep a chord within us as the poor Fool in King Lear , is , I think , the most entertaining of Shakespeare's privileged characters . And he is indeed a mighty delectable fellow ...
... Touchstone . Touchstone , though he nowhere strikes so deep a chord within us as the poor Fool in King Lear , is , I think , the most entertaining of Shakespeare's privileged characters . And he is indeed a mighty delectable fellow ...
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... Touchstone , and for the Poet's human - heartedness in thus putting us in com- munication with it . As for the other points of his character , I scarce know how to draw a reader into them by any turn of analysis . Used to a life cut off ...
... Touchstone , and for the Poet's human - heartedness in thus putting us in com- munication with it . As for the other points of his character , I scarce know how to draw a reader into them by any turn of analysis . Used to a life cut off ...
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... Touchstone there is much of the philosopher in the Fool , in Jaques there is not less of the fool in the philosopher ; so that the German critic , Ulrici , is not so wide of the mark in calling them " two fools . " Jaques is equally ...
... Touchstone there is much of the philosopher in the Fool , in Jaques there is not less of the fool in the philosopher ; so that the German critic , Ulrici , is not so wide of the mark in calling them " two fools . " Jaques is equally ...
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... Touchstone's art ; inasmuch as he greatly delights to see things otherwise than as they really are , and to make them speak out some meaning that is not in them ; that is , their plain and obvious sense is not to his taste ...
... Touchstone's art ; inasmuch as he greatly delights to see things otherwise than as they really are , and to make them speak out some meaning that is not in them ; that is , their plain and obvious sense is not to his taste ...
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... Touchstone is not mere clownage , nor has it any indirect serious significances : it is a dainty kind of absurdity worthy to hold comparison with the melancholy Jaques . And Orlando in the beauty and strength of early manhood , and ...
... Touchstone is not mere clownage , nor has it any indirect serious significances : it is a dainty kind of absurdity worthy to hold comparison with the melancholy Jaques . And Orlando in the beauty and strength of early manhood , and ...
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Adam AMIENS Audrey banished Batrachite bear beard Beau Ben Jonson better brother Charles chide Collier's second folio CORIN Corrected Court cousin daughter diest doth ducadme Duke F Duke's Dyce Enter ORLANDO Enter ROSALIND Exeunt Exit eyes fair faith father Fool Forest of Arden Fortune foul Ganymede gentle give graces Hanmer hath heart Heigh-ho Hero and Leander hither honour humour Jaques Julius Cæsar Lettsom live look lord lover marry matter means melancholy merry mistress Monsieur motley Fool Nature never old text Oliver original reads Phebe phrase play Poet pr'ythee pray printed priser Rosader SCENE sense Shakespeare shepherd SILVIUS Sir Roland song speak swear sweet Tale of Gamelyn tell thee thing thou art thought Thrasonical tongue Touch Touchstone verses wherein withal woman word wrestling young youth
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Page 53 - The seasons' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, — This is no flattery : these are counsellors, That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 69 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Page 110 - 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 55 - Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page 73 - 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 76 - Although thy breath be rude. Heigh, ho ! sing, heigh, ho ! unto the green holly : Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly Then, heigh, ho, the holly ! This life is most jolly.
Page 5 - And, seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven, Unless you be possess'd with devilish spirits, You cannot but forbear to murder me.
Page 60 - And, having that, do choke their service up Even with the having : it is not so with thee. But, poor old man, thou...
Page 157 - It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion, and all made of wishes; All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance; And so am I for Phebe.
Page 75 - 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.