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... kind that have no heads . And their eyen be in their shoulders.'1 Mandivell writes ( Chap . 22 , p , 133 ) Of peopel near the Antipodes , called Gadlibriens : Where on the wedding - night the husband hires Another man to couple with his ...
... kind that have no heads . And their eyen be in their shoulders.'1 Mandivell writes ( Chap . 22 , p , 133 ) Of peopel near the Antipodes , called Gadlibriens : Where on the wedding - night the husband hires Another man to couple with his ...
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greater part of a series of disconnected scenes , which form a loose kind of play within a rather slight framework . The Taming of the Shrew is hardly of the same type , because the framework is connected only mechanically with the ...
greater part of a series of disconnected scenes , which form a loose kind of play within a rather slight framework . The Taming of the Shrew is hardly of the same type , because the framework is connected only mechanically with the ...
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... kind of ' melancholy . ' ' Sometimes again by some feigned lie , strange news , witty device , artificial invention , it is not amiss to deceive them , ' 1 says Burton , who afterwards cites several strange cures of ' passions and ...
... kind of ' melancholy . ' ' Sometimes again by some feigned lie , strange news , witty device , artificial invention , it is not amiss to deceive them , ' 1 says Burton , who afterwards cites several strange cures of ' passions and ...
Page 125
... kind of bashfulness to some , perverse conceits and opinions , dejection of mind , much discontent , preposterous judgment . They are apt to loathe , dislike , disdain , to be weary of every object , etc. , each thing almost is tedious ...
... kind of bashfulness to some , perverse conceits and opinions , dejection of mind , much discontent , preposterous judgment . They are apt to loathe , dislike , disdain , to be weary of every object , etc. , each thing almost is tedious ...
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... kind ; who have knowne hitherto , Only one vertue , they call Fortitude , Worthy the name of valour . Iro . Which , who hath not , Is justly thought a Coward : And he is such . O , you ha ' read the Play there , the New Inne , Of ...
... kind ; who have knowne hitherto , Only one vertue , they call Fortitude , Worthy the name of valour . Iro . Which , who hath not , Is justly thought a Coward : And he is such . O , you ha ' read the Play there , the New Inne , Of ...
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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.
Page 100 - I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun...
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.
Page 230 - The Cross in the Life and Literature of the Anglo-Saxons. WILLIAM O. STEVENS, Ph.D. $0.75. XXIV. An Index to the Old English Glosses of the Durham Hymnarium. HARVEY W. CHAPMAN. $0.75.
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.