Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-night's DreamHarper, 1883 - 195 pages |
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... sport it is " to dance in ringlets to the whistling winds , " it was necessary , in order to give a * Shakespeare and his Times , by Nathan Drake , M.D. ( London , 1817 ) , vol . ii . p . 299 . filmy and consistent legerity to every ...
... sport it is " to dance in ringlets to the whistling winds , " it was necessary , in order to give a * Shakespeare and his Times , by Nathan Drake , M.D. ( London , 1817 ) , vol . ii . p . 299 . filmy and consistent legerity to every ...
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... sport of imagination which was fit only to be regarded as a dream by the persons whom the fairies illuded ; and that , as a whole , it comes before the spectators under the notion of a dream . " If we shadows have offended , Think but ...
... sport of imagination which was fit only to be regarded as a dream by the persons whom the fairies illuded ; and that , as a whole , it comes before the spectators under the notion of a dream . " If we shadows have offended , Think but ...
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... sports in the happy times of old England ; but they would be mis- placed in illustration of this play ; for , though Shakespeare has made the time of his story the time when people went forth " to do observance to the morn of May ...
... sports in the happy times of old England ; but they would be mis- placed in illustration of this play ; for , though Shakespeare has made the time of his story the time when people went forth " to do observance to the morn of May ...
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... sports , or show us anything of the May- day customs of the time . [ From Schlegel's " Lectures on Dramatic ... sport child- ishly and waywardly , with their beneficent or noxious influ- Their most violent rage dissolves in good ...
... sports , or show us anything of the May- day customs of the time . [ From Schlegel's " Lectures on Dramatic ... sport child- ishly and waywardly , with their beneficent or noxious influ- Their most violent rage dissolves in good ...
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... sports , and their hatred of ideas , " the Barbarians . " Theseus is a splendid and gracious aristocrat , perhaps not without a touch of the Barbarian in him . He would have found Hamlet a wholly unintelligible person , who , in ...
... sports , and their hatred of ideas , " the Barbarians . " Theseus is a splendid and gracious aristocrat , perhaps not without a touch of the Barbarian in him . He would have found Hamlet a wholly unintelligible person , who , in ...
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