History of William Shakespeare, Player and Poet: With New Facts and Traditions |
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... stands freshly out upon them , a special impress . The source of their nobility is Nature ; and this is a patent that needs neither blazoning from heralds , nor recognition from kings . Of this master - type was WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ...
... stands freshly out upon them , a special impress . The source of their nobility is Nature ; and this is a patent that needs neither blazoning from heralds , nor recognition from kings . Of this master - type was WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ...
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... stand in the same situation in this respect ; for while we are left in doubt whether Chaucer was the son of a knight , a gentleman , or a vintner , it is not agreed whether the father of Shakespeare was a glover , a wool- stapler , or a ...
... stand in the same situation in this respect ; for while we are left in doubt whether Chaucer was the son of a knight , a gentleman , or a vintner , it is not agreed whether the father of Shakespeare was a glover , a wool- stapler , or a ...
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... stands the hamlet of Wilmcote , a nook of the parish of Aston Cantlow . It lies in the forest of Arden , the remains of which still dot the surrounding country , crown Great Horn Hill , and look from the Ditchcote ridge over meadow and ...
... stands the hamlet of Wilmcote , a nook of the parish of Aston Cantlow . It lies in the forest of Arden , the remains of which still dot the surrounding country , crown Great Horn Hill , and look from the Ditchcote ridge over meadow and ...
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... stands . The first light came to us from an old man , named John Mills , to whom it was pointed out on his first arrival in the village forty years ago . A little time was now spent in looking for the oldest inhabitant , who turned out ...
... stands . The first light came to us from an old man , named John Mills , to whom it was pointed out on his first arrival in the village forty years ago . A little time was now spent in looking for the oldest inhabitant , who turned out ...
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... stand of the Reformers in Holland , the persecution of the Protestants in Germany , the attempted invasion of England , and , lastly , the Gunpowder Plot , the poet , whose life was hedged in by these events , still preached kindness to ...
... stand of the Reformers in Holland , the persecution of the Protestants in Germany , the attempted invasion of England , and , lastly , the Gunpowder Plot , the poet , whose life was hedged in by these events , still preached kindness to ...
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Page 226 - That very time I saw (but thou could'st not), Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 349 - 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 330 - How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! What old December's bareness everywhere! And yet this time removed was summer's time; The teeming autumn, big with rich increase, Bearing the wanton burden of the prime, Like widow'd wombs after their lords...
Page 68 - 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 348 - 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 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 226 - 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 149 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Page 330 - Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's...
Page 297 - Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power, would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter : as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him,
Page 254 - The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutored lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I have done is yours, what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have devoted yours.