The Shakspere Allusion-book: A Collection of Allusions to Shakspere from 1591 to 1700, Volume 1John James Munro Chatto & Windus, 1909 |
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... appears to be that the cause of this neglect of Antony is the secret of the Elizabethan attitude towards Shakspere the dramatist . It was not necessarily the finest poetry , nor the highest delineation of character , nor evidence of the ...
... appears to be that the cause of this neglect of Antony is the secret of the Elizabethan attitude towards Shakspere the dramatist . It was not necessarily the finest poetry , nor the highest delineation of character , nor evidence of the ...
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... appear again in Armin's Historie of the two Maids of More - Clacke , 1608- " courtly dames or earth's bright treading starres " ; and in Fletcher's Noble Gentleman , 3 " Beauties , that lights the Court , and makes it shew Like a faire ...
... appear again in Armin's Historie of the two Maids of More - Clacke , 1608- " courtly dames or earth's bright treading starres " ; and in Fletcher's Noble Gentleman , 3 " Beauties , that lights the Court , and makes it shew Like a faire ...
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... appear in Webster's White Devil and Suckling's Goblins . " Of the words of Falstaff and his kinsmen rascals there are many echoes . We have previously noticed Ancient Pistol as a purveyor of play - scraps . The earliest reproduction of ...
... appear in Webster's White Devil and Suckling's Goblins . " Of the words of Falstaff and his kinsmen rascals there are many echoes . We have previously noticed Ancient Pistol as a purveyor of play - scraps . The earliest reproduction of ...
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... appear to be due to book knowledge , but are simply the repetition of phrases and passages caught by the ear , with such misplacement of words and minor errors as such a process would entail . In an age when many playwrights were actors ...
... appear to be due to book knowledge , but are simply the repetition of phrases and passages caught by the ear , with such misplacement of words and minor errors as such a process would entail . In an age when many playwrights were actors ...
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... appears to me to have made perfect Representations of Humane Life most other Authors , that I ever read , either have wilde Romantick Tales , wherein they strein Love and Honour to that Ridiculous height , that it become Burlesque ...
... appears to me to have made perfect Representations of Humane Life most other Authors , that I ever read , either have wilde Romantick Tales , wherein they strein Love and Honour to that Ridiculous height , that it become Burlesque ...
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Page 328 - To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 344 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Page xxv - With the best gamesters : what things have we seen Done at the Mermaid; heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Page 157 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 190 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain. seal'd in vain.
Page 290 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Page 126 - The first thing we do, let's kill all the ' lawyers. Cade. Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment ? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man...
Page 238 - Slave, I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think, there be six Richmonds in the field ; Five have I slain to-day, instead of him: — A horse ! a horse ! my kingdom for a horse ! [Exeunt.
Page 147 - All causes shall give way ; I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.
Page 368 - Think, my lord ! By heaven, he echoes me, As if there were some monster in his thought Too hideous to be shown.