Remarks on Shakespeare's Versification |
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Page 46
... mere puns . The verses in the speech about Queen Mab are well known : they are little broken . The following extracts ... merely corrects and enlarges her statement . And as to the weaning , it is very common that children should not be ...
... mere puns . The verses in the speech about Queen Mab are well known : they are little broken . The following extracts ... merely corrects and enlarges her statement . And as to the weaning , it is very common that children should not be ...
Page 84
... mere machines for producing a great event . The only comic character is dull and trifling in the extreme . There is one ... merely in the scenes of jealousy , we have it in the beginning . It is not confined to the part of Iago ; we have ...
... mere machines for producing a great event . The only comic character is dull and trifling in the extreme . There is one ... merely in the scenes of jealousy , we have it in the beginning . It is not confined to the part of Iago ; we have ...
Page 89
... mere commonplace love . Even a sovereign Prince is brought in , merely to be in love . Shakespeare makes him express very strongly that love of music , which the poet himself felt most strongly , as we often see elsewhere . The way in ...
... mere commonplace love . Even a sovereign Prince is brought in , merely to be in love . Shakespeare makes him express very strongly that love of music , which the poet himself felt most strongly , as we often see elsewhere . The way in ...
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