Chamber's household edition of the dramatic works of William Shakespeare, ed. by R. Carruthers and W. Chambers, Part 26, Volume 1 |
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... shews us , between the reigns of Henry VI . and Henry VIII . , or from 1460 to 1527 , a Richard , a John , and a William Shakespeare ; and the same names are found in other records relating to the districts of Rowington and Wroxhall ...
... shews us , between the reigns of Henry VI . and Henry VIII . , or from 1460 to 1527 , a Richard , a John , and a William Shakespeare ; and the same names are found in other records relating to the districts of Rowington and Wroxhall ...
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... shews that he was then resident in Henley Street . His employment is not stated , but in 1556 he is described , in an action brought against him for a debt of £ 8 , as John Shakespeare , glover . He must , however , have been engaged in ...
... shews that he was then resident in Henley Street . His employment is not stated , but in 1556 he is described , in an action brought against him for a debt of £ 8 , as John Shakespeare , glover . He must , however , have been engaged in ...
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... shew that he had imbibed the spirit of the ancients , with as much of their manner as might sit gracefully on a free , original , and inspired poet of the north . There was another school in which Shakespeare was perhaps a still more ...
... shew that he had imbibed the spirit of the ancients , with as much of their manner as might sit gracefully on a free , original , and inspired poet of the north . There was another school in which Shakespeare was perhaps a still more ...
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... shews that the poet had no painful associations con- nected with his marriage . Another Stratford man , Richard Quiney - whose son subsequently married Shakespeare's youngest daughter - applies to him for a loan of £ 30 , under no appre ...
... shews that the poet had no painful associations con- nected with his marriage . Another Stratford man , Richard Quiney - whose son subsequently married Shakespeare's youngest daughter - applies to him for a loan of £ 30 , under no appre ...
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... shew his wit , and be familiar without loss of dignity.1 One of the first acts of 1 The letter was said to have been in the hands of Sir William Davenant , and to have been seen by Sheffield , Duke of Buckingham . In the Accounts of the ...
... shew his wit , and be familiar without loss of dignity.1 One of the first acts of 1 The letter was said to have been in the hands of Sir William Davenant , and to have been seen by Sheffield , Duke of Buckingham . In the Accounts of the ...
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Page 69 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back...
Page 69 - gainst my fury • Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further : Go, release them, Ariel ; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, • And they shall be themselves.
Page 22 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 69 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...
Page 15 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 17 - Know thus far forth. — By accident most strange, bountiful fortune, Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies Brought to this shore ; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
Page 71 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 70 - Have waked their sleepers ; oped, and let them forth By my so potent art. But this rough magic I here abjure ; and, when I have requir'd Some heavenly music, (which even now I do) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Page 33 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Page 21 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.