Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon; with a record of the tercentenary celebration1864 |
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... passed for a " Life of Shakespeare . " 66 Of the statements it contains the first may be taken as unquestionable ; the second as possible but improbable ; the third is doubtless ; the fourth is very questionable , and positively ...
... passed for a " Life of Shakespeare . " 66 Of the statements it contains the first may be taken as unquestionable ; the second as possible but improbable ; the third is doubtless ; the fourth is very questionable , and positively ...
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... passed on , In maiden meditation , fancy - free . " " We will not call the ghosts of Raleigh , Leicester , or Essex into the witness - box on the point of " fancy - free ; but no compliment could be conceived likely to make a more ...
... passed on , In maiden meditation , fancy - free . " " We will not call the ghosts of Raleigh , Leicester , or Essex into the witness - box on the point of " fancy - free ; but no compliment could be conceived likely to make a more ...
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... Passing from the church to " Old Town , " the tourist may proceed into Bree Street , and thence strike into the foot road which crosses the Great Western Railway and leads to the village of Shottery , where stands Anne Hathaway's ...
... Passing from the church to " Old Town , " the tourist may proceed into Bree Street , and thence strike into the foot road which crosses the Great Western Railway and leads to the village of Shottery , where stands Anne Hathaway's ...
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Robert E. Hunter. ANN HATHAWAY'S COTTAGE Shottery Stratford - upon - Avon Published by E. Adams . and her cottage . Passing through green lanes , where.
Robert E. Hunter. ANN HATHAWAY'S COTTAGE Shottery Stratford - upon - Avon Published by E. Adams . and her cottage . Passing through green lanes , where.
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Robert E. Hunter. and her cottage . Passing through green lanes , where the peasant lives undangered and at ease , the pedestrian will return to Stratford by Alcester road , proceeding through Greenhill and Meer Street , and arriving at ...
Robert E. Hunter. and her cottage . Passing through green lanes , where the peasant lives undangered and at ease , the pedestrian will return to Stratford by Alcester road , proceeding through Greenhill and Meer Street , and arriving at ...
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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...