Shakespeare's Comedy of the The Winter's TaleHarper, 1880 - 218 pages |
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... changed apparrell with the kinge of * The Stationers ' Registers show , however , that he had practically the control of the office from the year 1607 . † We give the passage as printed in the Transactions of the New Shak- spere Society ...
... changed apparrell with the kinge of * The Stationers ' Registers show , however , that he had practically the control of the office from the year 1607 . † We give the passage as printed in the Transactions of the New Shak- spere Society ...
Page 12
... changed the dénouement because he was writing a comedy , not a tragedy . One of the minor incidents may possibly have been altered for another reason . In Pandosto the daughter of the king is cast adrift at sea in a rudderless boat ...
... changed the dénouement because he was writing a comedy , not a tragedy . One of the minor incidents may possibly have been altered for another reason . In Pandosto the daughter of the king is cast adrift at sea in a rudderless boat ...
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... changed colour ; some swooned , all sorrowed : if all the world could have seen ' t , the woe had been universal . 1 Gentleman . Are they returned to the court ? 88 3 Gentleman . No : the princess hearing of her mother's statue , which ...
... changed colour ; some swooned , all sorrowed : if all the world could have seen ' t , the woe had been universal . 1 Gentleman . Are they returned to the court ? 88 3 Gentleman . No : the princess hearing of her mother's statue , which ...
Page 148
... changed Bohemia throughout to " Bithynia ; " but , as stated above ( see p . 17 ) , S. followed Greene in making Bohemia a maritime country . Farmer remarks : " Corporal Trim's King of Bohemia ' de- lighted in navigation , and had never ...
... changed Bohemia throughout to " Bithynia ; " but , as stated above ( see p . 17 ) , S. followed Greene in making Bohemia a maritime country . Farmer remarks : " Corporal Trim's King of Bohemia ' de- lighted in navigation , and had never ...
Page 152
... . ' Malone adds from Middleton , No Wit like a Woman's : " There these young lovers shall clap hands together . " Rowe ( 2d ed . ) changed clap to clepe ( = call ) . 66 22 105. ' Tis . To mend the metre , Hanmer 152 NOTES .
... . ' Malone adds from Middleton , No Wit like a Woman's : " There these young lovers shall clap hands together . " Rowe ( 2d ed . ) changed clap to clepe ( = call ) . 66 22 105. ' Tis . To mend the metre , Hanmer 152 NOTES .
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1st folio Abbott Gr Antigonus Archidamus Autolycus beauty Beseech blood Bohemia Camb Camillo Carbonadoed character child Clarke Cleomenes Clown Coll colour comfort conjectured Cymb Cymbeline dare daugh daughter death Delphos dildo Dion discase editors ellipsis emendation Emilia Exeunt eyes father fear feel Florizel flowers follows garden Gentleman give grace gracious Greene's novel Halliwell hand Hanmer hast hath heart heavens Hermione Hermione's honest honour innocent jealousy Johnson king King of Bohemia lady later folios Lear Leontes look lord Macb Malone Mamillius means nature never noble oracle Othello oxlips Pandosto passage passion Paulina Perdita play Polixenes prince prithee queen remarks repent Rich royal SCENE Schmidt seems Servant Shakespeare Shakspere Shepherd Sicilia Sonn sorrow speak Steevens quotes swear sweet Temp thee Theo thing thou art thought truth wife Winter's Tale word
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Page 93 - When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh ! the doxy over the dale, Why then comes in the sweet o' the year ; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh ! the sweet birds, O, how they sing ! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge ; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. The lark that...
Page 111 - Even here undone ! I was not much afeard : for once, or twice, I was about to speak ; and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun, that shines upon his court, Hides not his visage from our cottage, but Looks on alike.— Will 't please you, sir, be gone?
Page 100 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 101 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Page 170 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Page 187 - Come, come, and sit you down ; you shall not budge ; You go not till I set you up a glass Where you may see the inmost part of you.
Page 101 - O Proserpina, For the flowers now that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength...
Page 87 - I would, there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty ; or that youth would sleep out the rest: for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.
Page 27 - Rebellious passion ; for the Gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul ; A fervent, not ungovernable, love.
Page 81 - Hermione is chaste, Polixenes blameless, Camillo a true subject, Leontes a jealous tyrant, his innocent babe truly begotten ; and the king shall live •without an heir, if that, which is lost, be not found.