Much Ado about NothingGinn & Company, 1887 - 192 páginas |
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... Hero , Claudio , and John , bears a strong resemblance to the tale of Ariodante and Ginevra in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso . The Princess Ginevra , the heroine of the tale , rejects the love - suit of Duke Polinesso , and pledges her hand ...
... Hero , Claudio , and John , bears a strong resemblance to the tale of Ariodante and Ginevra in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso . The Princess Ginevra , the heroine of the tale , rejects the love - suit of Duke Polinesso , and pledges her hand ...
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... Hero , — and what will remain ? In other writers the main agent of the plot is always the prominent character : John is the main - spring of the plot in this play ; but he is merely shown , and then withdrawn . ” The style and diction ...
... Hero , — and what will remain ? In other writers the main agent of the plot is always the prominent character : John is the main - spring of the plot in this play ; but he is merely shown , and then withdrawn . ” The style and diction ...
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... Hero and Claudio . Much Ado has a large variety of interest , now running into grotesque drollery , now bordering upon the sphere of tragic elevation , now revelling in the most sparkling brilliancy . The play indeed is rightly named ...
... Hero and Claudio . Much Ado has a large variety of interest , now running into grotesque drollery , now bordering upon the sphere of tragic elevation , now revelling in the most sparkling brilliancy . The play indeed is rightly named ...
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... Hero and Claudio , though reasonably engaging in their simplicity and uprightness , offer no very salient points , and are indeed nowise extraordinary . It can- not quite be said that one sees no more in them than in the ordinary of ...
... Hero and Claudio , though reasonably engaging in their simplicity and uprightness , offer no very salient points , and are indeed nowise extraordinary . It can- not quite be said that one sees no more in them than in the ordinary of ...
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... Hero ; rather credulous , unstable , inconstant , and very much the sport of slight and trivial occasions . A very ... Hero's imputed sin , his best excuse therein is , that the light - minded Prince , who is indeed 12 MUCH ADO ABOUT ...
... Hero ; rather credulous , unstable , inconstant , and very much the sport of slight and trivial occasions . A very ... Hero's imputed sin , his best excuse therein is , that the light - minded Prince , who is indeed 12 MUCH ADO ABOUT ...
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Ariodante Balth Beat Beatrice better Bora BORACHIO brother cents character Claud Collier's second folio Count Claudio cousin daughter Dogberry Don JOHN doth Dyce edition English literature English Studies Exeunt eyes F. J. Child fashion fool Fran friar give Grace hand hath hear heart HENRY N Henry VI Hero Hiram Corson honest honour HUDSON humour intellectual Julius Cæsar lady language learning Leon LEONATO's House live lord Mailing Price Marg Margaret marriage marry Master Constable matter means merry Messina mind nature never old copies read play Poet Poet's pray thee Prince and Claudio Prince's pupils SCENE seems sense Shakespeare Signior Benedick sing slander soul speak speech style sure sweet tale taste tell thing thou thought tongue troth true truth URSULA Verg villain virtue Watch WILLIAM MINTO word write young
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Página 97 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Página 24 - O ! they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word ; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.
Página 25 - MINTO. A Manual of English Prose Literature, Biographical and Critical : designed mainly to show Characteristics of Style. By W. MINTO, MA, Professor of Logic in the University of Aberdeen. Third Edition, revised. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. Characteristics of English Poets, from Chaucer to Shirley. New Edition, revised. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d.
Página 28 - An obvious merit of this edition is, that each volume has two sets of notes ; one mainly devoted to explaining the text, and placed at the foot of the pag'e ; the other mostly occupied with matters of textual comment and criticism, and printed at the end of each play.
Página 15 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Página 27 - I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This, of all virtues and dignities of the mind, is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin.
Página 33 - A POET! — He hath put his heart to school, Nor dares to move unpropped upon the staff Which Art hath lodged within his hand — must laugh By precept only, and shed tears by rule. Thy Art be Nature ; the live current quaff, And let the groveller sip his stagnant pool, In fear that else, when Critics grave and cool Have killed him, Scorn should write his epitaph. How does the Meadow-flower its bloom unfold ? Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and, in that freedom, bold ;...