Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters : with an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Growth of the Drama in England, Volume 1Ginn, 1872 - English drama |
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... facts , some of them very important , touching the Poet and his family . And in our own day Mr. Collier has followed up the inquiry with very great diligence , and with no inconsiderable success ; though , un- fortunately , much of the ...
... facts , some of them very important , touching the Poet and his family . And in our own day Mr. Collier has followed up the inquiry with very great diligence , and with no inconsiderable success ; though , un- fortunately , much of the ...
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... fact ; and I take pleasure in noting it , as showing , what is too apt to be forgotten in these bookish days , that men may know sev- eral things , and may have witty children , without being initiated in the mysteries of pen and ink ...
... fact ; and I take pleasure in noting it , as showing , what is too apt to be forgotten in these bookish days , that men may know sev- eral things , and may have witty children , without being initiated in the mysteries of pen and ink ...
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... fact for such it is — that the women of his later plays are much superior to those of his earlier ones . But are not the men of his later plays quite as much superior to the men of his first ? Are not his later plays as much better ...
... fact for such it is — that the women of his later plays are much superior to those of his earlier ones . But are not the men of his later plays quite as much superior to the men of his first ? Are not his later plays as much better ...
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... facts about the mar- riage are just precisely as I have stated them . I confess they are not altogether such as I should wish them to have been ; but I can see no good cause why prurient inference or speculation should busy itself in ...
... facts about the mar- riage are just precisely as I have stated them . I confess they are not altogether such as I should wish them to have been ; but I can see no good cause why prurient inference or speculation should busy itself in ...
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... fact of his having influential friends at hand from Warwickshire , are enough to stamp it as an arrant fiction . We have seen that the company of Burbadge and his fel- lows held a patent under the great seal , and in 1587 took the title ...
... fact of his having influential friends at hand from Warwickshire , are enough to stamp it as an arrant fiction . We have seen that the company of Burbadge and his fel- lows held a patent under the great seal , and in 1587 took the title ...
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Page 231 - Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off ; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.
Page 39 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 199 - I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; — And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies...
Page 143 - The form is mechanic, when on any given material we impress a predetermined form, not necessarily arising out of the properties of the material, — as when to a mass of wet clay we give whatever shape we wish it to retain when hardened. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate; it shapes, as it develops, itself from within, and the fulness of its development is one and the same with the perfection of its outward form.
Page 31 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 25 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 25 - 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 story tell...
Page 219 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 291 - Christian is ? if you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? revenge ; If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Page 200 - How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenity and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree stand in authentic place? Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark what discord follows.