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Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ... - Page 402
by Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 429 pages
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Outdoor Careers: Exploring Occupations in Outdoor Fields

Ellen Shenk - Business & Economics - 2000 - 228 pages
...because you love working on or in the water." See Commercio/ Diving, page 122. Chapter & Recreation If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. William Shakespeare, King Henry IV As the new millennium opens, organized recreation has increased...
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Henry IV, Part 2

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 180 pages
...with the same brio once it lacks a law against which to strive. (As Prince Hal remarked in 1 Henry IV, "If all the year were playing holidays, / To sport would be as tedious as to work.") The tavern milieu, by sheer familiarity, has lost its originality, like a too-oft-told joke; it has...
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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 60 pages
...more wondered at By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapors that did seem to strangle him. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wished for come, And nothing pleascth but rare accidents. So when this...
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Quoting Shakespeare: Form and Culture in Early Modern Drama

Douglas Bruster - Drama - 2000 - 286 pages
...that had always been present to his dramatic practice. CHAPTER 4 Quoring lhe Playhouse in The Tempesl If all the year were playing holidays. To sport would be as redious as to work. HAL, in I Henty ^(1597) We have seen thar, thtoughour his careet, Shakespeare rended...
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Game, Set, Match: Winning the Negotiations Game

Henry S. Kramer - Business & Economics - 2001 - 384 pages
...frame of reference. Always consider the other side's proposals in this light. PAY FOR TIME NOT WORKED "If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work." [William Shakespeare] Time on the job may be divided into two categories, time actually spent doing...
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Orson Welles on Shakespeare: The W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre Playscripts

Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...more wond'red at By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wished-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when...
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The Death of Comedy

Erich Segal - Performing Arts - 2009 - 612 pages
...people and pieces come joyfully together. For the license to komos is limited. As Prince Hal puts it, "If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work."41 Thus at the very center of the komos is the "home pleasure" of the Happy Ending, the comic...
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...wonder'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him. — Ay; I know thy errand, I will go with thee: — The day, my friends, and al But when they seldom come, they wisht for And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose...
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Lectures on Shakespeare

Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...more wond'red at By breaking though the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when...
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Civilization's Quotations: Life's Ideal

Richard Alan Krieger - Electronic books - 2007 - 344 pages
...true object of all human life is play." — GK Chesterton "One man in his time plays many parts." — "If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work." — Shakespeare "No man is really depraved who can spend half an hour by himself on the floor playing...
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