Shakespeare's England: Or, Sketches of Our Social History of the Reign of Elizabeth, Volumen2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856 |
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... Sometimes 30 % . was spent on dresses ; but for all that , Psyche wears a damask gown , and Tamerlane crimson velvet breeches . There are friars ' hoods , green Robin Hood suits , and Danish robes ; masks for animals , globes , and ...
... Sometimes 30 % . was spent on dresses ; but for all that , Psyche wears a damask gown , and Tamerlane crimson velvet breeches . There are friars ' hoods , green Robin Hood suits , and Danish robes ; masks for animals , globes , and ...
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... sometimes intermittent . The old playbills contained only the names of the play , and not those of the actors , and only of the performance of the day ; they were pasted on the posts , and probably even divided public attention with the ...
... sometimes intermittent . The old playbills contained only the names of the play , and not those of the actors , and only of the performance of the day ; they were pasted on the posts , and probably even divided public attention with the ...
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... sometimes even pelt them . The real beau never entered the theatre till the trumpets were blowing for the prologue , for when the house was only half full , the richness of his dress could not be suffi- ciently applauded ; then , as if ...
... sometimes even pelt them . The real beau never entered the theatre till the trumpets were blowing for the prologue , for when the house was only half full , the richness of his dress could not be suffi- ciently applauded ; then , as if ...
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... Sometimes the gallant went to hiss and condemn an enemy's play ; sometimes to appear literary , and induce a poet to dedicate some sonnet to him , to procure his favour and forbearance . If the dramatist was one who had epigrammatised ...
... Sometimes the gallant went to hiss and condemn an enemy's play ; sometimes to appear literary , and induce a poet to dedicate some sonnet to him , to procure his favour and forbearance . If the dramatist was one who had epigrammatised ...
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... sometimes smoked . There was flocking and running to get in , and noise and tumult to get out . At Shrove Tuesday and such Saturnalian seasons , there were turbulent cries for particular plays , much as there are now at the minor ...
... sometimes smoked . There was flocking and running to get in , and noise and tumult to get out . At Shrove Tuesday and such Saturnalian seasons , there were turbulent cries for particular plays , much as there are now at the minor ...
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Página 56 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Página 39 - If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended: That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend.
Página 41 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Página 45 - ... life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then and wish I were renew'd, Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink Potions of eisel 'gainst my strong infection ; No bitterness that I will bitter think, Nor double penance, to correct correction. Pity me then, dear friend, and I assure ye Even that your pity is enough to cure me.
Página 12 - M. William Shak-speare : HIS True Chronicle Historic of the life and death of King LEAR and his three Daughters. With the unfortunate life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Gloster, and his sullen and assumed humor of TOM of Bedlam : As it was played before the Kings Maiestie at Whitehall vpon S.
Página 313 - The queen dines and sups alone with very few attendants ; and it is very seldom that any body, foreigner or native, is admitted at that time, and then only at the intercession of somebody in power.
Página 45 - tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Página 313 - At the end of all this ceremonial, a number of unmarried ladies appeared, who, with particular solemnity, lifted the meat off the table, and conveyed it into the Queen's inner and more private chamber, where, after she had chosen for herself, the rest goes to the ladies of the Court.
Página 311 - Her bosom was uncovered, as all the English ladies have it till they marry ; and she had on a necklace of exceeding fine jewels ; her hands were small, her fingers long, and her stature neither tall nor low ; her air was stately, her manner of speaking mild and obliging.
Página 58 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.