Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon; with a record of the tercentenary celebration1864 |
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... he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country . And thus ends the bald disjointed chat of Aubrey , which passed for a " Life of Shakespeare . ' Of the statements it contains the first may be taken as unquestionable ...
... he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country . And thus ends the bald disjointed chat of Aubrey , which passed for a " Life of Shakespeare . ' Of the statements it contains the first may be taken as unquestionable ...
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Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon; With a Record of the Tercentenary ... Robert E Hunter No preview available - 2019 |
Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon; With a Record of the Tercentenary ... Robert E Hunter No preview available - 2019 |
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actor admirable Alfred Mellon amongst appear Applause April arrangements attended Avon Banner Bart Bellew Birmingham Birth of Shakespeare birth-place Blackfriars Theatre borough Bracebridge character Charles Cheers co-operation Committee Room Cymbeline dramatic E. F. Flower English erected favour Fechter feel Garrick genius gentlemen give Granville Hamilton Hamlet Henley Street Henry HERMANN VEZIN honour James Bennett John Shakespeare jubilee Kingsley labours Lady Lane Leamington letter matter Mayor meeting memory of Shakespeare Messrs Miss mittee monumental memorial occasion Othello pageant pavilion performance Phelps play Hamlet poet poet's proceedings programme proposed R. H. Hobbes received request resolution Robert Secretary Shake Shakespearian Shakespearian Club Sims Reeves Sir Charles Mordaunt stage Stratford Committee Stratford-upon-Avon Susanna Hall tercentenary celebration tercentenary Committee TERCENTENARY FESTIVAL theatre tickets toast Town Hall tragedian upon-Avon Vice-presidents Warwick Warwickshire Welcombe whilst William Shakespeare Worcester
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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...