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Перевод: quarto

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кварто; формат в 1/4 долю листа; книга в 1/4 долю листа

Тезаурус:

1. "I am returning the delightful Quarto edition of Crowe's poem, from which I have been able to observe what he did later with the piece.
2. If at the end of seven years, he can make up the fraction of a quarto forme and impose it, or is able to lay down a sheet of 16's correctly, the apprentice so qualified may considered himself well advanced.
3. A later (later in terms of the Quarto numbering, that is) example of this type of sonnet, with its disgusted "withdrawal of the Poet" gesture, is 95: The exclamatory style, the notably affectionate gestures, the epithets of praise ("sweet and lovely", "sweets", "beauty's veil" in line 11) almost convince us that the Friend's personal attractiveness can somehow transmute evil to good, a form of paradoxical hyperbole that Shakespeare gives to Lepidus, attempting to excuse Antony's faults to Caesar: "His faults in him seem as the spots of heaven, /More fiery by night's blackness" ( Antony and Cleopatra , I.iv.13f).
4. In fact, the three greatest masterpieces in the collection could not have been sold outside Germany in any case, being on its list of national treasures: the quarto thirteenth-century Hildesheim Psalter; the Sacramentary in uncials; and the Nibelungen manuscript "C".
5. A quarto is likely to need all of twelve inches, a folio correspondingly more, if you are not to be reduced to laying it on its side.
6. Attempts have been made to distinguish the two forms by close reading of "groups" or "sequences" within the collection, but such attempts either to arrange the order of the 1609 Quarto into some new scheme, or to read a consistent development within it are equally misguided.
7. City: Quarto rises to 4.09m
8. Assuming that there is a card, note the classification number and the symbol indicating the type of book, for example, q - quarto, f - folio, p - pamphlet.
9. Weiser, however, claims to find "a well-defined dramatic character" as speaker of the poems, with the arrangement of the 1609 Quarto reflecting "a steady pattern of growth and final disintegration in the speaker's personality".
10. True, there is a Will in Sonnets 135 and 136, and if the italicization in the 1609 Quarto is significant it can be seen to represent Shakespeare's own name, or that of the Friend, or even the Dark Lady's husband.
11. Thus, despite the temporary appraisal by eye, the book is an octavo, not a quarto - a fact established by checking the signatures.
12. It is a thick volume measuring approximately 8ins. by 6ins., squarish, and for everyday purposes might be described as a quarto.
13. In terms of the Bookish Portfolio, changes in UK publishing stocks included the restoration of a full holding in Quarto which paid off reasonably well, and the purchase on two occasions of cheap BPP shares.