The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 3J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... given so accurate an account of our earliest dramatick performances , that I shall make no apology for extracting from various parts of his valuable work , such particulars as suit my present purpose . The earliest dramatick ...
... given so accurate an account of our earliest dramatick performances , that I shall make no apology for extracting from various parts of his valuable work , such particulars as suit my present purpose . The earliest dramatick ...
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... given the following ingenious account of the origin of this rude species of dramatick entertainment : " About the eighth century trade was principally carried on by means of fairs , which lasted several days . Charlemagne established ...
... given the following ingenious account of the origin of this rude species of dramatick entertainment : " About the eighth century trade was principally carried on by means of fairs , which lasted several days . Charlemagne established ...
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... given by Cardinal Wolsey to the mo- nasteries of the Canons regular of St. Austin , in the year 1519 , the brothers are forbidden to be lusores aut mimici , players or mimicks . But the prohibition means that the monks should not go ...
... given by Cardinal Wolsey to the mo- nasteries of the Canons regular of St. Austin , in the year 1519 , the brothers are forbidden to be lusores aut mimici , players or mimicks . But the prohibition means that the monks should not go ...
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... given of the like practice among the French . " The only persons who could now read were in the religious societies ; and various circumstances , pe- culiarly arising from their situation , profession , and institution , enabled the ...
... given of the like practice among the French . " The only persons who could now read were in the religious societies ; and various circumstances , pe- culiarly arising from their situation , profession , and institution , enabled the ...
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... given by the English fathers at the famous Council of Constance , in the year 1417 , a low buffoon of Herod's court is introduced , desiring of his lord to be dubbed a knight , that he might be properly qualified to go on the adventure ...
... given by the English fathers at the famous Council of Constance , in the year 1417 , a low buffoon of Herod's court is introduced , desiring of his lord to be dubbed a knight , that he might be properly qualified to go on the adventure ...
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Page 110 - Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air.
Page 69 - Garters, the guards with their embroidered coats, and the like— sufficient in truth within a while to make greatness very familiar if not ridiculous. Now, King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle...
Page 165 - M. William Shak-speare : HIS True Chronicle Historic of the life and death of King LEAR and his three Daughters. With the unfortunate life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Gloster, and his sullen and assumed humor of TOM of Bedlam : As it was played before the Kings Maiestie at Whitehall vpon S.
Page 217 - I loved the man and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions : wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped: Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius.
Page 224 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Page 246 - IN the name of God, Amen. I William Shakspeare, of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick, gent., in perfect health and memory (God be praised), do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following : that is to say — First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting ; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Page 74 - When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room...
Page 69 - King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain chambers being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly and ran round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood...
Page 213 - Warwick; his father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours that, when he was a boy, he exercised his father's trade; but when he killed a calf, he would do it in a high style and make a speech.
Page 216 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.