The twenty-six folios of his "Vegetable System," with many others, testify his love and his labour.
He had them bound in volumes of all sizes; and a range of twelves, octavos, quartos, and folios were marshalled in portentous order on his shelves.
The folios all read as he reads, except that instead of naming the persons they give their characters, enter Clown, Constable, and Wench.
Fisher is sometimes preferable, but Roberts was followed, though not without some variations, by Hemings and Condel, and they by all the folios that succeeded them.
In the folios the direction is, enter Braggart and Moth, and at the beginning of every speech of Armado stands Brag, both in this and the foregoing scene between him and his boy.
The only omission in this reprint is of those notes which merely list variant readings, either from one of the folios or quartos or from a previous editor.
Timon, Those healths will make thee, and thy state, look ill,' following the Folios in the next four lines.
Scæna Prima' at the beginning, there is in the Folios no indication of a division into Act or Scene throughout the play.
In the Folios and the earlier editors it is not clear from the mode of printing where the words of the 'voice' ended.
The Foliosdivide the fourth and fifth lines thus: 'Vnsafe the while, that wee must laue Our Honors in these flattering streames.
The stage directions given in the text are compounded of that given in the Folios and that given by Rowe.
The Folios after 'hark, a word with you,' add Lucillius and Messala stand forth, which Capell was the first to omit.
The folioscontinue the words to the second citizen, thus: '2.
Steevens, in his edition of 1773, restored 'his fate' from the Folios in the first line, giving the reading we have adopted in the text.
I met with four copies of the Gospels and two of the Epistles, all the others being books of the church service and the usualfolios of the fathers.
These were large folios on cotton paper, most of them of considerable antiquity, and well begrimed with dirt.
There were a great many enormous folios of the works of the fathers, and one MS.
Though it cannot be stated definitely, as the earlier folios are missing, yet there seems little doubt that this volume did not ever belong to the University Library.
Mr. Kingsford has marked the folios in the margin to the text of his edition.
The volume has been bound up with what seems to be part of a fourteenth-century collection of extracts from the Fathers, two folios of which appear at the beginning and two at the end.
On the second of these folios is pasted a square slip of paper bearing Gloucester's arms, roughly executed, and the inscription 'Ex dono illustrissimi principis et domini.
In another poem he bewailed the sad fate of Jacqueline in a way which was not very complimentary to Humphrey, though this production of his has not survived in a complete state, two whole folios being mercifully missing.
The last two folios are devoted to a short description of the origin of the Scotch nation, and the rights of the Kings of England over those of the sister kingdom.
Loftus had already two folios of extracts copied from all the records to which Dr.
Write half a dozen folios full of other people's ideas (as all folios are pretty sure to be), and you serve as ballast to the lower shelves of a library, about as like to be disturbed as the kentledge in the hold of a ship.
When convinced of its absurdity, these desirable maidens put aside their big folios and became the properly humble, adoring, and ignorant wives of the heroes whose sound good sense had shown them their folly.
Cassandra's folios now no longer read, See, two neat pocket-volumes in their stead!
The notes on Fishes are in the same volume of manuscripts, folios 23 to 38; but there are some irregularities which will be explained as they occur.
In those days it had an aspect of enchantment to me; not only on account of its singular appearance, so different from other flowers, but because in old folios I had read that it could call up the passion of love.
Did such a work exist now in Venice, what immense folios would be issued about it!
The seventh folio of l was torn up the back, so that the two leaves parted company; and the same happened to both the folios in quire m, leaving six leaves loose.
An English edition with facsimiles of 33 of the 41 folios was published by Rev.
Just by the door was his standing desk, with foliosand lexicons.
At the beginning of the first scene the Quarto and the Folios have, 'Enter Leonato Governour of Messina, Innogen his wife, &c.
The Quarto and Folios agree, with slight differences of spelling, in the stage direction given in the note.
The Quarto and Folios punctuate thus: say, saving your reverence a husband.
The first three folios were to be found in the library, as well as the first editions of Lucrece and the Sonnets, and a large number of the quarto plays.
It is stated that there were over two thousand foliosin it, and that it cost the Bishop six thousand pounds.
It contained the first and second foliosof the great dramatist, and upwards of forty copies of the separate plays in quarto, many of them being first editions.
The first, second, and third Shakespeare folios were in the collection, as well as a large number of early quarto plays.
The folios realised respectively one hundred and ten pounds, five shillings, fifteen pounds, and sixty-five pounds, two shillings.
The distance is abbreviated if the octavos, quartos and folios follow one another in each class.
In very large libraries it may be necessary to provide additional storage space for bound files of newspapers, extra large folios and prints.
The simplest method is to have three sequences, for octavos, quartos and folios respectively, in appropriately sized shelves, in three different parts of the room.
Valuable foliosshould always be kept in flat positions.
The dimensions of such a case will depend upon the number of folios to be stored and their size, but the following illustration (Fig.
For the consultation of elephant folios and similar very large books the special slope outlined in Fig.
The Folios have substantially the same, omitting the word 'Here.
In the Folios the play is divided into acts, but not into scenes, although they prefix Actus Primus, Scena Prima, to the first act.
The stage direction of the Folios is as follows: Enter the King of France, the Dolphin, the Constable of France, and others.
Quartos read band, the Folios and the fifth Quarto bond, while in the 67th line both Quartos and Folios agree in bond.
These 'new additions' are found also in the first and following Folios and in Q₅.
The Folios omitted noble, in order to correct the redundant line.
This line is printed in the Folios as if it were a part of Austria's speech.
The subsequent Quartos and the Folios have the same reading without the blank.
In the stage directions of the Folios Queen Elinor is variously indicated as Elinor, Eli.
In the Folios the 'Induction' is reckoned as the first scene, the second scene beginning with the entry of Lord Bardolph.
The Folios supply the article in the former passage, but leave the latter untouched.
This discrepancy between the readings of the first and second Folios had escaped Capell's notice.
On folios 93 to 95 we find characters like those given in fac-simile No.
But he soon corrects himself, and writes for twenty folios (to the recto of folio 27) with more or less care in his clear Roman hand.
What fiend has followed Mr. Collier through the later years of his life, putting manuscripts under his pillow and folios into his pew, and so luring him on to moral suicide?
Day and night they sit bent over the huge foliosof the Rabbis, occupied constantly with the study of the Law.
He will also verify the folios again (if the book is printed from plates this will be the first opportunity of doing so) and see that the pages join up to what has gone before.
The "make-up" inserts the cuts, divides the matter into page lengths, and adds the running titles and folios at the heads of the pages.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "folios" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
