New Light on Some Obscure Words and Phrases in the Works of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

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Reeves & Turner, 1884 - 68 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 48 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, In folly ripe, in reason rotten.
Pàgina 23 - Like to the senators of the antique Rome, With the plebeians swarming at their heels, Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in : As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, Bringing rebellion broached on his sword, How many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him ! much more, and much more cause, Did they this Harry.
Pàgina 47 - Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell. O, what a fall was there, my countrymen! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us. O, now you weep, and I perceive you feel The dint of pity; these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what! weep you when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Pàgina 42 - O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb That carries anger, as the flint bears fire ; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again.
Pàgina 65 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their...
Pàgina 20 - Lo, with a band of bowmen and of pikes, Brown bills and targeteers, four hundred strong, Sworn to defend King Edward's royal right, I come in person to your majesty, Spencer, the father of Hugh Spencer there, Bound to your highness everlastingly, For favour done, in him, unto us all.
Pàgina 62 - It implies that the things so called had been bought at the fair of Saint Audrey, where gay toys of all sorts were sold. This Fair was held in the Isle of Ely on the day of the Saint, the I7th of October. An old English historian...
Pàgina 51 - Twas from the doctor's method of using such speeches at markets and fairs, that in after-times those that imitated the like humorous jocose language were styled ' Merry Andrews,' a term much in vogue on our stages.
Pàgina 64 - Sheffield authorities) a mining term, and signifies a particular indication in the soil of the direction in which ore is to be found.
Pàgina 49 - I find also that in the month of May, the citizens of London of all estates, lightly in every parish, or sometimes two or three parishes...

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