Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon; with a record of the tercentenary celebration1864 |
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... early age of 53 , carried away into " the undiscovered country " the greatest genius " that ever lived in the tide of times ; " and it is here worthy of remark that his professional associates , John Heminge and Henrie Condell , who ...
... early age of 53 , carried away into " the undiscovered country " the greatest genius " that ever lived in the tide of times ; " and it is here worthy of remark that his professional associates , John Heminge and Henrie Condell , who ...
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... earliest skeleton of a memoir ( it cannot be called anything better ) of Shakespeare as yet discovered was put ... early to make essays at dramatic poetry , which at that time was very low , and his 66 plays took well . As a proof ...
... earliest skeleton of a memoir ( it cannot be called anything better ) of Shakespeare as yet discovered was put ... early to make essays at dramatic poetry , which at that time was very low , and his 66 plays took well . As a proof ...
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... early to make essays in poetry is most likely , but that he wrote the doggerel epitaph for John o ' Combe is very doubtful . There are more than one version of the lines . They are very dull and ill - natured , and Shakespeare was ...
... early to make essays in poetry is most likely , but that he wrote the doggerel epitaph for John o ' Combe is very doubtful . There are more than one version of the lines . They are very dull and ill - natured , and Shakespeare was ...
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... early old associates , and here was his heart with his treasures of wife and children . In conclusion , Aubrey says he knew Latin pretty well ; thus discrediting the dictum of worthy Ben Jonson on this point . Naturally dissatisfied ...
... early old associates , and here was his heart with his treasures of wife and children . In conclusion , Aubrey says he knew Latin pretty well ; thus discrediting the dictum of worthy Ben Jonson on this point . Naturally dissatisfied ...
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... early did he enter upon the most serious responsibilities of life . Hamnet and Judith ( twins ) , his son and second daughter , were baptized February 2 , 1583 . About three years after this date the young husband and father is ...
... early did he enter upon the most serious responsibilities of life . Hamnet and Judith ( twins ) , his son and second daughter , were baptized February 2 , 1583 . About three years after this date the young husband and father is ...
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Page 56 - The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read, and praise to give.
Page 172 - For taking bribes here of the Sardians ; Wherein my letters, praying on his side, Because I knew the man, were slighted off. Bru. You wrong'd yourself to write in such a case. Cas. In such a time as this, it is not meet That every nice offence should bear his comment.
Page 34 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 209 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 56 - Yet must I not give nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Page 6 - Though, as Ben Jonson says of him that he had but little Latin and less Greek, he understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country.
Page 208 - I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts to put them in. imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.
Page 44 - Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting, and, it seems, drank too hard ; for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted.
Page 55 - Tis true, and all men's suffrage. But these ways Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise ; For silliest ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right...
Page 56 - Soul of the age! The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie...