ISBN: 9781232003946

corners bumped and worn, Spine has bumping to top and bottom, 1903, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 50 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0… More...

corners bumped and worn, Spine has bumping to top and bottom, 1903, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 50 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: . . . the first three books of which were published in 1590, and the next three in 1596. Shakespeares reference, if we are right in so describing it, is the more gracious. 1. wasted, bygone. Cp. March is toasted fourteen days, Julius Ccesar, ii. i. ; Till now some nine moons wasted, Othello, i. iii. 2. wights, persons: very common in old English. 5. blazon, description. From O. F. blason, properly a shield; then (2) a shield iti heraldry, armorial bearings; then (3) a description or record, especially a record of excellencies. The verb to Naze (old infinitive blasen) to blow (a musical instrument), so to proclaim as with a trumpet, probably had some influence in giving the subst. its third meaning. Cp. Much Ado, ii. i. 264, I think your blazon to be true. 8. master, are master of. 11. for, since, divining, prophetic. 13. which in Shakespeare is less definite than who. Wlu indicates an individual, which a kind of person; who is qui, which is qualis. . . . When the antecedent is personal and plural, which is generally preferred to who (Abbott, S. G. , 266). 25. Turn back, you wanton flyer from one of the three song-books of T. Campion, who appears to have been author of the words which he set to music. His merit as a lyrical poet (recognized in his own time, but since then forgotten) has been again brought to light by Mr. Bullens taste and research (F. T. P. ). It should be added that though the modern revival of interest in Campion is mainly due to Mr. Bullen, his poems were first reprinted by Prof. Arber in An English darner, 1882. Thomas Campion (died 1620), was a doctor of medicine, a scholar and a musician, as well as a poet. In 1602 he published a treatise in which he attacked the vain titill. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<