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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... present infants at the Font the third day after their birth ; but we have no certain information whether it was observed on this august occasion . We have seen that throughout the following Summer the destroyer was busy in Stratford ...
... present infants at the Font the third day after their birth ; but we have no certain information whether it was observed on this august occasion . We have seen that throughout the following Summer the destroyer was busy in Stratford ...
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... present at those performances . From that time forward , all through the Poet's youth , probably no year passed without similar exhibitions at Stratford . In 1572 , however , an act was passed for re- straining itinerant players ...
... present at those performances . From that time forward , all through the Poet's youth , probably no year passed without similar exhibitions at Stratford . In 1572 , however , an act was passed for re- straining itinerant players ...
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... present and consenting to the act . There was nothing peculiar in the transaction ; the bond is just the same as was usually given in such cases , and several others like it are to be seen at the office of the Worcester registry . The ...
... present and consenting to the act . There was nothing peculiar in the transaction ; the bond is just the same as was usually given in such cases , and several others like it are to be seen at the office of the Worcester registry . The ...
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... present form of the play . The next year , 1604 , the finished Hamlet was published ; the title - page containing the words , " enlarged to almost as much again as it was . ' Of Measure for Measure we have no well - au- thenticated ...
... present form of the play . The next year , 1604 , the finished Hamlet was published ; the title - page containing the words , " enlarged to almost as much again as it was . ' Of Measure for Measure we have no well - au- thenticated ...
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... present shape , before the close of 1604. Reckoning , then , the four last named , we have twenty - eight of the plays written when the Poet was forty years of age , and had probably been at the work about eighteen years . Time has ...
... present shape , before the close of 1604. Reckoning , then , the four last named , we have twenty - eight of the plays written when the Poet was forty years of age , and had probably been at the work about eighteen years . Time has ...
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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.