Oberon's vision in the Midsummer-night's dream, illustrated by a comparison with Lylie's EndymionShakespeare Society, 1843 - 108 páginas |
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... less voluminous than minute , and must needs be attended with intricate details . Time does his work on the remembrance of men's lives as he does upon the labours of their hands - disperses the materials which once formed a whole . To ...
... less voluminous than minute , and must needs be attended with intricate details . Time does his work on the remembrance of men's lives as he does upon the labours of their hands - disperses the materials which once formed a whole . To ...
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... less consideration than it de- serves : I mean that condition of our earlier drama which , in the language of the Euphuist , may be called " the application of pastimes ; " that is to say , the per- sonalities of the drama - the ...
... less consideration than it de- serves : I mean that condition of our earlier drama which , in the language of the Euphuist , may be called " the application of pastimes ; " that is to say , the per- sonalities of the drama - the ...
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... less also represents a female , and that female Eliza- beth's rival . Scarcely has Oberon described the venom of his " little flower " than he proceeds to inform us of his power to dispel its charm by the virtue of " another herb ...
... less also represents a female , and that female Eliza- beth's rival . Scarcely has Oberon described the venom of his " little flower " than he proceeds to inform us of his power to dispel its charm by the virtue of " another herb ...
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... less by its popu- larity than its beauty ; and we thus arrive at the conclusion- which a judgment experienced in the resources of our elder dramatists would , I think , unhesitatingly sanction - that SHAKE- SPEARE'S Dian's Bud is the ...
... less by its popu- larity than its beauty ; and we thus arrive at the conclusion- which a judgment experienced in the resources of our elder dramatists would , I think , unhesitatingly sanction - that SHAKE- SPEARE'S Dian's Bud is the ...
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... less of " a good sprag memory , " and " a better scholar than he was thought to be ” —would hardly have left him behind , when the grandest spectacle he was ( at that time ) ever likely to wit- ness was about to be exhibited . But ...
... less of " a good sprag memory , " and " a better scholar than he was thought to be ” —would hardly have left him behind , when the grandest spectacle he was ( at that time ) ever likely to wit- ness was about to be exhibited . But ...
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Oberon's vision in the Midsummer-night's dream, illustrated by a comparison ... Nicholas John Halphin Visualização completa - 1843 |
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affections allegory Arden arts Boaden Camden castle character circumstances comedy conjecture Corsites cotemporary Countess of Essex Countess of Sheffield Countess of Shrewsbury court courtiers Cupid Cynthia Dipsas displeasure dolphin's drama Dugdale's Duke Earl of Leicester Earl of Shrewsbury Earl of Sussex edition Edward Stafford Eliz Endy Endymion Eumenides fable fair Vestal favour Floscula fortunes Gascoyne Geron Gosson hath heart honour imperial Votaress J. P. Collier Kenilworth Lady Douglas Sheffield Lady Lettice Laneham Leicester's little flower little western flower Lord Love in idleness lover Lunary Lylie Lylie's Majesty Majesty's marriage married Mary mask ment mermaid Midas Midsummer Night's Dream Nichols's Progresses Oberon Oberon's Vision object passion person play poet Poet's poetical present probably Puck Queen Elizabeth Queen of Scots quod quoth respect rival royal mistress satire says secret Semele Shakespeare SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY shew Sir Edward Stafford Sir Tophas story supposed Tellus thing thou thought tongue unhappy virtues wife
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Página 15 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with -love's wound, And maidens call it Love-in-idleness.
Página 10 - The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid Will make or man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees.
Página 20 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath. That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 15 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Página 105 - Such a wicked imagination was determined and attempted by a most unkind gentleman, the most adorned creature that ever your Majesty made.' " Her Majesty. ' He that will forget God will also forget his benefactors ; this tragedy was played forty times in open streets and houses.
Página 20 - There were fireworks shewed upon the water, the which were both strange and well-executed ; as sometimes passing under water a long space ; when all men thought they had been quenched, they would rise and mount out of the water againe, and burn very furiously untill they Were entirely consumed.
Página 22 - Warwick, gent,, whose parent and great-grandfather, late antecessor, for his faithful and approved service to the late most prudent prince, King Henry VII., of famous memory, was advanced and rewarded with lands and tenements, given to him in those parts of Warwickshire, where they have continued by some descents in good reputation and credit...
Página 106 - The tragedy of Gowry, with all action and actors, hath been twice represented by the King's players, with exceeding concourse of all sorts of people; but whether the matter or manner be not well handled, or that it be thought unfit that princes should be played on the stage in their lifetime, I hear that some great counsellors are much displeased with it, and so, it is thought, it shall be forbidden.
Página 9 - A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more.
Página 101 - See the Knave commands the Queen ; for which he was corrected by a frown from the Queen ; yet he had the confidence to add that he was of too much and too intolerable a power ; and going on with the same liberty, he reflected on the over-great power and riches of the Earl of Leicester, which was so universally applauded by all that were present that she thought fit for the present to bear these reflections with a seeming unconcernedness.