 | William Shakespeare - 1873 - 526 páginas
...Qucen ; Spirits, «- hich appear to her; Scribes, Officers, Guards, and other Attendants. PROLOGUE. I COME no more to make you laugh; things now. That bear a weighty and a serious brow, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, Sad, and high-working," full of state and woe, We now present.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1911 - 566 páginas
...Officers, Guards, and other Attendants. THE FAMOUS HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF KING HENRY THE EIGHTH PROLOGUE I come no more to make you laugh : things now, That...and woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, 4 We now present. Those that can pity, here May, if they think it well, let fall a tear ; The subject... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1912 - 214 páginas
...Officers, Guards, and other Attendants. SCENE: London; Westminster; KimboUon.] Life of THE PROLOGUE I COME no more to make you laugh : things now, That...to flow, We now present. Those that can pity, here 5 May, if they think it well, let fall a tear ; The subject will deserve it. Such as give Their money... | |
 | Meredith Nicholson - 1912 - 256 páginas
...are degraded for his pleasure. Smith, it seems, is too weary from his day's work to care for dramas "That bear a weighty and a serious brow, Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe." He is one of the loyalest patrons of that type of beguilement known as the "musical comedy," which... | |
 | 1912 - 900 páginas
...are degraded for his pleasure. Smith, it seems, is too weary from his day's work to care for dramas That bear a weighty and a serious brow, Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe. He is one of the most loyal patrons of that type of beguilement known as the musical comedy, which... | |
 | 1914 - 554 páginas
...Henry VIII. The prologue announces a subject which is of the very essence of Aristotle's definition : I come no more to make you laugh ; things now That...woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow We here present. Vet the play has room for the typically Shakespearian scene of the crowd and the testy... | |
 | 1914 - 230 páginas
...The answer that I propose to give cannot be jocose. In the words of one of Shakespeare's prologues, "I come no more to make you laugh; things now, That...brow, Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe," must be my theme. In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1916 - 1174 páginas
...Gentlemen. Garter King-at-Arms. SCENE. — Chiefly in London and Westminster ; once, at KimbdUon. PROLOGUE. I come no more to make you laugh : things now, That...pity, here May, if they think it well, let fall a tear ; DOCTOR BUTTS, Physician to the King. Surveyor to the Duke of Buckingham. BRANDON, and a Sergeant-atArms.... | |
 | Frank James Mathew - 1922 - 462 páginas
...Pageant to be his first mature Tragedy. Perhaps he could have said as Fletcher did in the Prologue, I come no more to make you laugh : things now That...noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. THE TRAGEDIES OHAKESPEARE lived in passionate times, and they grew Odarker as he came to maturity.... | |
 | 1925 - 702 páginas
...function is more that of preface and after-word than that of interpretation. The Prologue starts thus: I come no more to make you laugh: things now, That...noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. Having defined several categories of plays and having classified his own, the poet concludes, after... | |
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I COME no more to make you laugh ; things now, That bear a weighty and a serious brow. Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. 
