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... scenes . * There are few early notices of the representation of this play . According to a manuscript at Lambeth Palace , it was performed as a private amusement at the Bishop of Lincoln's house on Sunday night , September 27th , 1631 ...
... scenes . * There are few early notices of the representation of this play . According to a manuscript at Lambeth Palace , it was performed as a private amusement at the Bishop of Lincoln's house on Sunday night , September 27th , 1631 ...
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... scenes of continued rhyme , as be- ing barren in fable and defective in strength of character , it may be pronounced the offspring of youth and inexperience , it will ever in point of fancy be considered as equal to any subsequent drama ...
... scenes of continued rhyme , as be- ing barren in fable and defective in strength of character , it may be pronounced the offspring of youth and inexperience , it will ever in point of fancy be considered as equal to any subsequent drama ...
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... scene where " trip the light fairies and the dapper elves , " and forming together a whole so variously , yet so happily inter- woven , so racy and effervescent in its composition , of such exquisite levity and transparency , and ...
... scene where " trip the light fairies and the dapper elves , " and forming together a whole so variously , yet so happily inter- woven , so racy and effervescent in its composition , of such exquisite levity and transparency , and ...
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... , dealing in quaint devices , and faring in dainty delights . Prospero and his world of spirits are a set of moralists ; but with Oberon and his fairies en and women actors in the scene , by a 22 A MIDSUMMER - NIGHT'S DREAM .
... , dealing in quaint devices , and faring in dainty delights . Prospero and his world of spirits are a set of moralists ; but with Oberon and his fairies en and women actors in the scene , by a 22 A MIDSUMMER - NIGHT'S DREAM .
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William Shakespeare William James Rolfe. en and women actors in the scene , by a single epithet hich Titania gives to the latter- " the human mortals ! " It astonishing that Shakespeare should be considered , not nly by foreigners , but ...
William Shakespeare William James Rolfe. en and women actors in the scene , by a single epithet hich Titania gives to the latter- " the human mortals ! " It astonishing that Shakespeare should be considered , not nly by foreigners , but ...
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Page 111 - Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide: And we fairies, that do run By the triple Hecate's team, From the presence of the sun, Following darkness like a dream, Now are frolic; not a mouse Shall disturb this hallow'd house: I am sent with broom before, To sweep the dust behind the...
Page 113 - If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, — That you have but slumber'd here, While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend.
Page 97 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was : man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.
Page 95 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew"d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge when you hear.
Page 186 - He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took 't away again; Who, therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff...
Page 38 - The best in this kind are but shadows ; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
Page 58 - Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger, washes all the air, That rheumatic diseases do abound; And through this distemperature, we see The seasons alter : hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose ; And on old Hyems' chin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set.
Page 56 - And on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale. The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale, \" Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me ; Then slip I from her bum, down topples she, And 'tailor...
Page 94 - I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear Such gallant chiding; for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
Page 126 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...