The Original Version of "Love's Labour's Lost,": With a Conjecture as to "Love's Labour's Won,"

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The University, 1918 - 55 pagine
 

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Pagina 27 - A whitely wanton, with a velvet brow, With two pitch-balls stuck in her face for eyes; Ay, and, by heaven, one that will do the deed Though Argus were her eunuch and her guard!
Pagina 20 - ad propositos revertebo ;' the purity of the verity is, that a certain 'pulchra puella profecto,' elected and constituted by the integrated determination of all this topographical region, as the sovereign lady of this dame Maia's month, hath been, ' quodammodo,' hunted, as you -would say ; pursued by two, a brace, a couple, a cast of young men, to whom the crafty coward Cupid had, ' inquam,' delivered his dire dolorous dart.
Pagina 9 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear • Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, Deaf 'd with the clamours of their own dear groans.
Pagina 35 - The pedant, the braggart, the hedge-priest, the fool, and the boy.
Pagina 34 - I know not well what degree of respect Shakespeare intends to obtain for this vicar, but he has here put into his mouth a finished representation of colloquial excellence.
Pagina 43 - ... fully bear it out. In it Love's Labours— comic labours — are both lost and won: lost, because they led to a year of penance; and won, because, at the end of that year, they were to receive their reward.
Pagina 36 - Biron's amorous speeches we may trace sometimes the " unutterable longing ;" and the lines in which Katherine describes the blighting through love of her younger sister are one of the most touching things in older literature...
Pagina 34 - Castiglione will scarcely be found to comprehend fa rule for conversation so justly delineated, so widely dilated, and so nicely limited. It may be proper just to note, that ' reason ' here, and in many other places, signifies discourse ; and that ' audacious ' is used in a good sense for spirited, animated, confident.
Pagina 39 - The Poets eye, in a fine frenzy, rolling, / doth glance From heauen to earth, from earth to heauen.
Pagina 29 - I know not; but I think it was not he. It was thus that Shakspere learnt to shade off his scenes, to carry the action beyond the stage.

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