William Shakespeare, His Family and FriendsE.P. Dutton, 1904 - 521 pages |
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... , WILMCOTE , AND THE MANOR OF ROWINGTON • 107 MIDLAND AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL HISTORY IN SHAKE- SPEARE'S PLAYS 139 PAGE LANDMARKS ON THE STRATFORD ROAD AND IN LONDON ,. FACTS AND TRADITIONS RELATING TO SHAKESPEARE'S EARLY LIFE.
... , WILMCOTE , AND THE MANOR OF ROWINGTON • 107 MIDLAND AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL HISTORY IN SHAKE- SPEARE'S PLAYS 139 PAGE LANDMARKS ON THE STRATFORD ROAD AND IN LONDON ,. FACTS AND TRADITIONS RELATING TO SHAKESPEARE'S EARLY LIFE.
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... LONDON , 1586-1616 179 I. SHAKESPEARE'S JOURNEY TO LONDON ( c . 1586 ) . 11. THE ROAD TO LONDON - ROLLRIGHT STONES - GRENDON Under- WOOD - AYLESBURY TO UXBRIDGE III . UXBRIDGE TO TYBURN - ST . GILES ' · 179 182 · 190 IV . GRAY'S INN ...
... LONDON , 1586-1616 179 I. SHAKESPEARE'S JOURNEY TO LONDON ( c . 1586 ) . 11. THE ROAD TO LONDON - ROLLRIGHT STONES - GRENDON Under- WOOD - AYLESBURY TO UXBRIDGE III . UXBRIDGE TO TYBURN - ST . GILES ' · 179 182 · 190 IV . GRAY'S INN ...
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... London , about 1878-80 , and he is obliged to the kindness of Mr. John White , C.B. , for the following reminiscences of earlier years , and of a companionship more intimate . Mr. White writes : " Charles Elton was in the head class at ...
... London , about 1878-80 , and he is obliged to the kindness of Mr. John White , C.B. , for the following reminiscences of earlier years , and of a companionship more intimate . Mr. White writes : " Charles Elton was in the head class at ...
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... London , and especially in the House of Commons , would not have seemed to be in store for him . His manner was quieter and more subdued than it afterwards became , and he was as little given to laughter as Mr. Disraeli himself . But he ...
... London , and especially in the House of Commons , would not have seemed to be in store for him . His manner was quieter and more subdued than it afterwards became , and he was as little given to laughter as Mr. Disraeli himself . But he ...
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... London study ; or on the low hills , and among the ancient trees of his rural home , one remembers the happiness afforded by his hospi- tality , his wisdom , and his wit , his fragments of for- gotten lore ; for to him , as to Tom ...
... London study ; or on the low hills , and among the ancient trees of his rural home , one remembers the happiness afforded by his hospi- tality , his wisdom , and his wit , his fragments of for- gotten lore ; for to him , as to Tom ...
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Page 388 - O, it is monstrous, monstrous: Methought the billows spoke and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded, and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded And with him there lie mudded.
Page 383 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt, the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar; graves at my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd and let 'em forth By my so potent Art.
Page 337 - Let me not burst in ignorance ! but tell, Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements ! why the sepulchre. Wherein we saw thee quietly in-urn'd. Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws, To cast thee up again...
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Page 202 - Long in his highness' favour, and do justice For truth's sake and his conscience; that his bones, When he has run his course and sleeps in blessings, May have a tomb of orphans
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Page 88 - And summer's lease hath all too short a date : Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd ; And every fair from fair sometime declines By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd ; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest...
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Page 137 - 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.