Modern Philology, Volume 2

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University of Chicago Press, 1904
Vols. 30-54 include 1932-1956 of: Victorian bibliography, prepared by a committee of the Victorian Literature Group of the Modern Language Association of America.
 

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Pagina 273 - Venite ad me omnes qui laboratis et onerati estis, et ego reficiam vos.
Pagina 612 - I have purposely omitted and left out some fond and frivolous gestures, digressing and, in my poor opinion, far unmeet for the matter, which I thought might seem more tedious unto the wise than any way else to be regarded, though haply they have been of some vain, conceited fondlings greatly gaped at, what times they were showed upon the stage in their graced deformities.
Pagina 293 - And counter-work the one unto the other, Contend in gifts, as they would seem in love : All which I suffer, playing with their hopes, And am content to coin...
Pagina 292 - I have no wife, no parent, child, ally, To give my substance to; but whom I make Must be my heir; and this makes men observe me: This draws new clients daily to my house, Women and men of every sex and age, That bring me presents, send me plate, coin, jewels With hope that when I die (which they expect Each greedy minute) it shall then return...
Pagina 458 - Venus ; but that one thing, how he came into Italy, he prosecutes in twelve books. The rest of his journey, his error by sea, the sack of Troy, are put not as the argument of the work, but episodes of the argument. So Homer laid by many things of Ulysses and handled no more, than he saw tended to one and the same end.
Pagina 457 - Now, that it should be one, and entire. One is considerable two ways : either, as it is only separate, and by itself; or as being composed of many parts, it begins to be one, as those parts grow, or are wrought together.
Pagina 294 - Stood by while it was made, saw all the ingredients; And know, it cannot but most gently work: My life for his, 'tis but to make him sleep. Volp. (aside) Ay, his last sleep, if he would take it.
Pagina 456 - For as a body without proportion cannot be goodly, no more can the action, either in comedy or tragedy, without his fit bounds. And every bound, for the nature of the subject, is esteemed the best that is largest, till it can increase no more; so it behooves the action in tragedy or comedy to be let grow till the necessity...
Pagina 454 - I am not of that opinion to conclude a poet's liberty within the narrow limits of laws, which either the grammarians or philosophers prescribe. For before they found out those laws, there were many excellent poets that fulfilled them : amongst whom none more perfect than Sophocles, who lived a little before Aristotle.
Pagina 543 - ... for their public playing; and if the mayor like the actors, or would show respect to their lord and master, he appoints them to play their first play before himself and the aldermen and common council of the city : and that is called the mayor's play, where...

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