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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... thought to forbear the church for debt and for fear of process , or for some other worse faults , or for age , sickness , or impotency of body . The names of six women and nine men , including that of ' Mr John Shackespere ' are given ...
... thought to forbear the church for debt and for fear of process , or for some other worse faults , or for age , sickness , or impotency of body . The names of six women and nine men , including that of ' Mr John Shackespere ' are given ...
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... thoughts ' invention , Doth , like himself , heroically sound . ' The epithet ' gentle , ' and the allusion to the heroical sound of himself — that is , his surname - apply well to Shakespeare . But the expression , ' high thoughts ...
... thoughts ' invention , Doth , like himself , heroically sound . ' The epithet ' gentle , ' and the allusion to the heroical sound of himself — that is , his surname - apply well to Shakespeare . But the expression , ' high thoughts ...
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... thought to live in Pythagoras , so the sweete - wittie soule of Ovid lives in mellifluous and hony- tongued Shakespeare ; witnes his Venus and Adonis , his Lucrece , his sugred Sonnets among his private friends , & c . As Plautus and ...
... thought to live in Pythagoras , so the sweete - wittie soule of Ovid lives in mellifluous and hony- tongued Shakespeare ; witnes his Venus and Adonis , his Lucrece , his sugred Sonnets among his private friends , & c . As Plautus and ...
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... thought a malevolent speech . I had not told posterity this , but for their ignorance , who chose that circumstance to commend their friend by , wherein he most faulted ; and to justify mine own candour ; for I loved the man , and do ...
... thought a malevolent speech . I had not told posterity this , but for their ignorance , who chose that circumstance to commend their friend by , wherein he most faulted ; and to justify mine own candour ; for I loved the man , and do ...
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... thought , as well as by passages of fine description and imagery . The easy flow of the verse , in so complicated a measure as that of the sonnet , is not the least remarkable feature in those singular and mysterious productions . Con ...
... thought , as well as by passages of fine description and imagery . The easy flow of the verse , in so complicated a measure as that of the sonnet , is not the least remarkable feature in those singular and mysterious productions . Con ...
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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.