A Midsommer Nights Dreame, Volume 10 |
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ABBOTT actors allusion Athens Bottom called CAPELL character chough clowns Coll COLLIER comedy conj Demetrius doth drama Duke Dyce edition editors Egeus emendation Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair fairies fancy FLEAY flower Folio gives gleek HALLIWELL hath haue heere Helena Hermia Hippolyta instance Johns JOHNSON Knight's Tale Ktly Lady lion loue Louers lovers Lysander MALONE meaning mermaid Midsummer Night's Dream misprint moon muſt neuer night Oberon passage Philostrate play poet Pope et seq Pope+ present Puck Pyramus and Thisbe Q₁ Q₂ QqFf Quarto Queen Quince R. G. WHITE reference rhyme Robin Goodfellow Rowe et seq Rowe+ says scene seems sense Shakespeare ſhall ſhe ſhould Sing song Spenser stage STAUNTON Steev STEEVENS ſweet thee Theob THEOBALD theſe Theseus Thisby thou Titania vpon W. A. WRIGHT WALKER Crit Warb word
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Page 209 - The best in this kind are but shadows ; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
Page 92 - Forty flags with their silver stars, Forty flags with their crimson bars, Flapped in the morning wind: the sun Of noon looked down, and saw not one.
Page 317 - That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a
Page 86 - 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.
Page 297 - 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.
Page 143 - O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou, That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity and pitch soe'er, But falls into abatement and low price, Even in a minute; so full of shapes is fancy, That it alone is high fantastical.
Page 138 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night...
Page 57 - He were a noun adjective, using these sayings : such as learn, GOD and St. Nicholas be my speed : such as neese, GOD help and St. John : to the horse, GOD and St. Loy save thee.
Page 87 - 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.
Page 36 - O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...