As You Like itGinn & Company, 1893 - 159 pages |
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... is , when the Poet was in his thirty - sixth or thirty - seventh year . The play was never printed , that we know of , till in the folio of 1623 . 3 66 Before passing from this branch of the subject , INTRODUCTION. ...
... is , when the Poet was in his thirty - sixth or thirty - seventh year . The play was never printed , that we know of , till in the folio of 1623 . 3 66 Before passing from this branch of the subject , INTRODUCTION. ...
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... never noticed save by such as cannot understand poetry without a map . Dramatic Originality . No one at all competent to judge in the matter will sup- pose that Shakespeare could have been really indebted to Lodge , or to whomsoever ...
... never noticed save by such as cannot understand poetry without a map . Dramatic Originality . No one at all competent to judge in the matter will sup- pose that Shakespeare could have been really indebted to Lodge , or to whomsoever ...
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... never have suspected there were any . Shakespeare generally preferred to make up his plots and stories out of such materials as were most familiar to his audience . Of this we have many examples ; but the fact is too well known to need ...
... never have suspected there were any . Shakespeare generally preferred to make up his plots and stories out of such materials as were most familiar to his audience . Of this we have many examples ; but the fact is too well known to need ...
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... never ; Which neither listlessness nor mad endeavour , Nor Man nor Boy , Nor all that is at enmity with joy , Can utterly abolish or destroy . Characterization . As You Like It is exceedingly rich and varied in charac- ter . The several ...
... never ; Which neither listlessness nor mad endeavour , Nor Man nor Boy , Nor all that is at enmity with joy , Can utterly abolish or destroy . Characterization . As You Like It is exceedingly rich and varied in charac- ter . The several ...
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... never thinking of his high birth but to avoid dishonouring it ; in his noble- heartedness , forgetting , and causing others to forget , his nobility of rank ; he is every way just such a man as all true men would choose for their best ...
... never thinking of his high birth but to avoid dishonouring it ; in his noble- heartedness , forgetting , and causing others to forget , his nobility of rank ; he is every way just such a man as all true men would choose for their best ...
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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.