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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... perhaps , be conceded that he who has even partially surmounted them is entitled to consider- able indulgence . Among the biographical details which ensue , that portion which treats of the family and connexions of our great Poet - and ...
... perhaps , be conceded that he who has even partially surmounted them is entitled to consider- able indulgence . Among the biographical details which ensue , that portion which treats of the family and connexions of our great Poet - and ...
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... perhaps in a position to interpret the mystery , and give to its shadows " a local habitation and a name . " The subject is obviously one of the many love - adventures in which that most romantic sovereign , whose pride it was to have ...
... perhaps in a position to interpret the mystery , and give to its shadows " a local habitation and a name . " The subject is obviously one of the many love - adventures in which that most romantic sovereign , whose pride it was to have ...
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... perhaps sufficient evidence before us to iden- tify the time and place of Oberon's Vision with the Princely Pleasures of Kenilworth . " Shakespeare's impression of the scene , " as Mr. Boaden justly observes , " was strong and gene- ral ...
... perhaps sufficient evidence before us to iden- tify the time and place of Oberon's Vision with the Princely Pleasures of Kenilworth . " Shakespeare's impression of the scene , " as Mr. Boaden justly observes , " was strong and gene- ral ...
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... perhaps even discharged some youthful part in the pageant . " But methinks there is something too aristocratic in this condescension ; for , whilst our Poet's description of a part of the pageantry , as if from the memory of an eye ...
... perhaps even discharged some youthful part in the pageant . " But methinks there is something too aristocratic in this condescension ; for , whilst our Poet's description of a part of the pageantry , as if from the memory of an eye ...
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... perhaps of his high - minded kinsman , the head of the Arden family , and in the company of his father and mother . The passage under consideration has very much the air of a sketch drawn from memory , and imparts additional likelihood ...
... perhaps of his high - minded kinsman , the head of the Arden family , and in the company of his father and mother . The passage under consideration has very much the air of a sketch drawn from memory , and imparts additional likelihood ...
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Oberon's Vision in the Midsummer-night's Dream: Illustrated by a Comparison ... Nicholas John Halpin 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.