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... popular etymology of some earlier and less significant form . That the name originally bore so patent a meaning is open to doubt . Some of the early spellings may be cited as pertinent : " Saxberd , " " Shagspere , " " Shaxbere ...
... popular etymology of some earlier and less significant form . That the name originally bore so patent a meaning is open to doubt . Some of the early spellings may be cited as pertinent : " Saxberd , " " Shagspere , " " Shaxbere ...
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... popular with the townsmen . We may suppose , too , that he was kindly of heart ; his fre- quent and generous contributions to those in distress 1 Yet with regard to his using a mark in the various corporation records , Fripp , op . cit ...
... popular with the townsmen . We may suppose , too , that he was kindly of heart ; his fre- quent and generous contributions to those in distress 1 Yet with regard to his using a mark in the various corporation records , Fripp , op . cit ...
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... popular hero was supposed to have spent his last days in retirement . William Camden , who visited the place in Shakespeare's time , has preserved for us a description which shows how much it could move even an antiquarian : “ Hard by ...
... popular hero was supposed to have spent his last days in retirement . William Camden , who visited the place in Shakespeare's time , has preserved for us a description which shows how much it could move even an antiquarian : “ Hard by ...
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... popular juvenile stories , ulti- mately rising thereby from an obscure career as a butcher in Stratford to a brilliant career as a man of letters in London . It is a pity to dispel this pretty romance , yet the evidence does not justify ...
... popular juvenile stories , ulti- mately rising thereby from an obscure career as a butcher in Stratford to a brilliant career as a man of letters in London . It is a pity to dispel this pretty romance , yet the evidence does not justify ...
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... popular favor , and becoming almost at once proverbial . When Queen Elizabeth ordered Shakespeare to continue the ... popularity , stood ready to his hand ; and in the first scene of the play he laughs at Shallow's ancient coat of arms ...
... popular favor , and becoming almost at once proverbial . When Queen Elizabeth ordered Shakespeare to continue the ... popularity , stood ready to his hand ; and in the first scene of the play he laughs at Shallow's ancient coat of arms ...
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Page 166 - Coral is far more red than her lips' red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound...
Page 239 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page 526 - 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 are 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 167 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O no ; it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests, and is never shaken ; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 40 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew"d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 477 - 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...
Page 239 - English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, .tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 172 - Was it the proud full sail of his great verse, Bound for the prize of all too precious you, That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse, Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew ? Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead ? No, neither he, nor his compeers by night Giving him aid, my verse astonished.
Page 148 - But if the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be sorry it had so noble a godfather, and never after ear so barren a land, for fear it yield me still so bad a harvest.
Page 218 - Shylock, we would have moneys : ' you say so ; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold : moneys is your suit. What should I say to you ? Should I not say ' Hath a dog money ? is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats...