Word: well
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...minister murmurs the well-known words...
...Well cushioned, inviting, and soft...
LAST spring we noticed the formation of the new Shakspere Society, and gave the titles of several old books to be reprinted by it, as well as a sketch of the general purposes of its founders. Since that time, notwithstanding the constant attention of its director, Mr. Furnivall, the society has met with some reverses, and it is now plain to be seen that all the hopes of the friends of the movement will not be realized, but that there is still much the society can do, and will do, towards a careful study of Shakspere. It is doubtful whether...
...which Shakspere may have drawn. Then, reported as preparing, are a reprint of the Quarto of 1636, of the Two Noble Kinsmen, a play by Shakspere and Fletcher, as also a revised edition, with notes, of the same play. A number of interesting works that the society would do well to publish have been suggested in the Academy, by Mr. Richard Simpson and others. Among them, besides various forms of parallel texts, are suggested reprints of the works of Robert Greene, Thomas Nash, Thomas Lodge, Henry Chettle, and others; reprints of seventeen plays, at some time or other attributed...
...have mentioned these works, not only because they are interesting in themselves, but to call our readers' attention to this Shakspere Society, and to show what a good work it may do if well supported. The list of members up to last July includes 413 names, yet after but 35 of these stand the letters U. S. A. It can hardly be supposed that this number represents all those in this country who care enough for the study of Shakspere to enter the society, and we cannot but hope that Harvard undergraduates, at least, may in future be more fully...