An Introduction to Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's DreamW. Pickering, 1841 - 104 páginas |
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... Shakes- peare availed himself of the title of this play in his own mind , and worked upon it as a dream through- out . " Such was no doubt the case , and may we not conclude , that the first idea of the play was conceived on Midsummer ...
... Shakes- peare availed himself of the title of this play in his own mind , and worked upon it as a dream through- out . " Such was no doubt the case , and may we not conclude , that the first idea of the play was conceived on Midsummer ...
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... Shakes- peare wrote with no classical rules before him , and do not in the least detract from the most beautiful poetical drama in this or any other language . Shakes- peare was truly the child of nature , and when we find Hermia ...
... Shakes- peare wrote with no classical rules before him , and do not in the least detract from the most beautiful poetical drama in this or any other language . Shakes- peare was truly the child of nature , and when we find Hermia ...
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... Shakes- peare's interlude , satisfactorily prove the source of the latter . We give the whole passage , and let the reader judge for himself : - " Within the towne ( of whose huge walles so monstrous high and thicke , The fame is given ...
... Shakes- peare's interlude , satisfactorily prove the source of the latter . We give the whole passage , and let the reader judge for himself : - " Within the towne ( of whose huge walles so monstrous high and thicke , The fame is given ...
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... shake , Doth cause the trembling lodges twayne , Of Phoebus ' carre to shake . Raygne reachlesse nowe : in every place Thy peace procurde I have , Aloffe where Nereus lookes up lande , Empalde in winding wave . " " The roring rocks have ...
... shake , Doth cause the trembling lodges twayne , Of Phoebus ' carre to shake . Raygne reachlesse nowe : in every place Thy peace procurde I have , Aloffe where Nereus lookes up lande , Empalde in winding wave . " " The roring rocks have ...
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... doth use for to call Men to death's haven . Now the mice peep abroad , And the cats take them : Now doe young wenches sleepe , Till their dreams wake them . " The ideas are not only similar to those of Shakes- 38 INTRODUCTION TO A.
... doth use for to call Men to death's haven . Now the mice peep abroad , And the cats take them : Now doe young wenches sleepe , Till their dreams wake them . " The ideas are not only similar to those of Shakes- 38 INTRODUCTION TO A.
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Palavras e frases frequentes
allusion Ancient ANGLO-SAXON Athens ballad BASIL MONTAGU Bottom the Weaver Burrel cacography choyce cloth boards COLERIDGE coloured conjecture copies Covent Garden Theatre crown 8vo Cuckow dancing Danus death Demetrius doth DYCE eares early edition Egeus English eyes Faerie fair Hermia fairy favour folio foolscap 8vo FREDERIC MADDEN hast hath haue hear Helena Hermia HISTORY Illustrations imperial 4to Knight's Tale Large Paper Lond Lord loue lovers Lysander Memoir by SIR merry Midsummer Night's Dream MITFORD moon Natural Theology never night Oberon original orthography pigmei plates poet POETICAL POETRY Portrait Pranks printed Pyramus and Thisbe Queene Quin readers Robin Goodfellow SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Shakes Shakespeare Shakespeare's plays shoold sometimes song spirit Steevens sweet tale Taylor thee thence Theseus THOMAS thou Titania translated unto Vipoio vols Wheare yeeld
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Página 39 - Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon ; Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud.
Página 78 - The finch, the sparrow, and the lark, The plain-song cuckoo gray, Whose note full many a man doth mark, And dares not answer, nay...
Página 7 - These are the forgeries of jealousy : And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain, or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.
Página 2 - If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended: That you have but slumbered 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.
Página 93 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare, for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Página 1 - SMYTH'S (Professor) Lectures on Modern History; from the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the close of the American Revolution.
Página 48 - Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.
Página 45 - Another sort there be, that will Be talking of the Fairies still, Nor never can they have their fill, As they were wedded to them; No tales of them their thirst can slake, So much delight therein they take, And some strange thing they fain would make, Knew they the way to do them. Then since no Muse hath been so bold, Or of the later, or the old, Those elvish secrets to unfold, Which lie from others...
Página 69 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
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