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... Give me excess of it , that , surfeiting , The appetite may sicken , and so die . Then in the last scene Olivia gives him his final answer in terms of his own image : If it be aught to the old tune , my lord , It is as fat and fulsome ...
... Give me excess of it , that , surfeiting , The appetite may sicken , and so die . Then in the last scene Olivia gives him his final answer in terms of his own image : If it be aught to the old tune , my lord , It is as fat and fulsome ...
Page 85
... give weight and stateliness , and a ceremonious cadence to the line , an effect that is intensified by Shakespeare's partiality for polysyllabic concentrations . Sometimes the movement of the sonnet line is retarded by an accumulation ...
... give weight and stateliness , and a ceremonious cadence to the line , an effect that is intensified by Shakespeare's partiality for polysyllabic concentrations . Sometimes the movement of the sonnet line is retarded by an accumulation ...
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... give them more of Falstaff in his next play . This , however , he found to be impossible ; Falstaff was no Hotspur , and his popularity threatened to overwhelm that of the King ; there was no room for them both at Agincourt , so instead ...
... give them more of Falstaff in his next play . This , however , he found to be impossible ; Falstaff was no Hotspur , and his popularity threatened to overwhelm that of the King ; there was no room for them both at Agincourt , so instead ...
Contents
Chapter Page | vii |
EARLY PLAYS AND POEMS | 53 |
SONNETS AND LYRICAL PLAYS | 74 |
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