Illustrations of Shakespeare, and of Ancient Manners: With Dissertations on the Clowns and Fools of Shakespeare; on the Collection of Popular Tales Entitled Gesta Romanorum; and on the English Morris Dance, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 - Gesta Romanorum |
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... Declaration of Popish impostures , has here recollected that part of the work where the author , speaking of the sup- posed possession of young girls , says , " they make anticke faces , girn , mow and mop like an TEMPEST . 13.
... Declaration of Popish impostures , has here recollected that part of the work where the author , speaking of the sup- posed possession of young girls , says , " they make anticke faces , girn , mow and mop like an TEMPEST . 13.
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... faces , girn , mow and mop like an ape , tumble like a hedge - hogge , & c . " Another rea- son for the introduction of urchins or hedge - hogs into this speech is , that on the first discovery of the Bermudas , which , as has been ...
... faces , girn , mow and mop like an ape , tumble like a hedge - hogge , & c . " Another rea- son for the introduction of urchins or hedge - hogs into this speech is , that on the first discovery of the Bermudas , which , as has been ...
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... face is visible . The natives of Ceylon instead of a man , have placed a hare in the moon ; and it is said to have got there in the following manner . Their great Deity Budha when a hermit on earth lost himself one day in a forest ...
... face is visible . The natives of Ceylon instead of a man , have placed a hare in the moon ; and it is said to have got there in the following manner . Their great Deity Budha when a hermit on earth lost himself one day in a forest ...
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... face a thousand sundry hewes against the sunne devoures , From heaven descending came- ARI . Sc . 1. p . 131 . so I charm'd their ears , That calf - like , they my lowing follow'd through Tooth'd briers , sharp furzes , pricking goss ...
... face a thousand sundry hewes against the sunne devoures , From heaven descending came- ARI . Sc . 1. p . 131 . so I charm'd their ears , That calf - like , they my lowing follow'd through Tooth'd briers , sharp furzes , pricking goss ...
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... face And in many another place That the blode brast out , He daunced among thornes thycke In many places they dyde hym prycke , & c . " Sc . 1. p . 136 . CAL . And all be turn'd to barnacles , or apes . Mr. Collins's note , it is ...
... face And in many another place That the blode brast out , He daunced among thornes thycke In many places they dyde hym prycke , & c . " Sc . 1. p . 136 . CAL . And all be turn'd to barnacles , or apes . Mr. Collins's note , it is ...
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Page 14 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 300 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Page 396 - Howe'er you come to know it, answer me: Though you untie the winds and let them fight Against the churches; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders...
Page 429 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward.
Page 3 - I'd divide, And burn in many places ; on the topmast, The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly, Then meet, and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors O...
Page 410 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 198 - That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide : And we fairies, that do run By the triple Hecate's team...
Page 478 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Page 356 - But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler...
Page 409 - And prithee, lead me in : There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny; 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own.