In Re ShakespeareJohn Lane: New York, John Lane Company, 1909 - 152 pages |
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... kind as to say at the outset ( p . 2 ) that I am provided with " much of the equipment of the successful practitioner at the Old Bailey . " I do not know exactly what this may be intended to imply . For myself I never practised at the ...
... kind as to say at the outset ( p . 2 ) that I am provided with " much of the equipment of the successful practitioner at the Old Bailey . " I do not know exactly what this may be intended to imply . For myself I never practised at the ...
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... kind . From the death of his father in 1583 , when he adopted his father's spell- ing of the name , to the time of his own death in 1618 , he never varied . As a boy he seems to have written it Rauleygh ; but from the time he was twenty ...
... kind . From the death of his father in 1583 , when he adopted his father's spell- ing of the name , to the time of his own death in 1618 , he never varied . As a boy he seems to have written it Rauleygh ; but from the time he was twenty ...
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... kind . " It may be observed , " he writes , " that the field of comparison of the Library signature with the known originals is narrow , being limited to those written between 1613 and 1616 , all of which show such a lack of facility in ...
... kind . " It may be observed , " he writes , " that the field of comparison of the Library signature with the known originals is narrow , being limited to those written between 1613 and 1616 , all of which show such a lack of facility in ...
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... kind . The next in order of the " arguments " which Canon Beeching ascribes to me is this : " ( 2 ) William Shakespeare's father could not write his name . " Well , the fact of the illiteracy of Shak- spere's parents ( Canon Beeching ...
... kind . The next in order of the " arguments " which Canon Beeching ascribes to me is this : " ( 2 ) William Shakespeare's father could not write his name . " Well , the fact of the illiteracy of Shak- spere's parents ( Canon Beeching ...
Page 32
... kind . He prints ( p . 5 ) a reproduction of the name " Jhon Shaksper " written against John Shaksper's " mark . " The reader will see this much better if he will refer to Mr. Halliwell- Phillipps's Outlines , Vol . I , p . 38 , where ...
... kind . He prints ( p . 5 ) a reproduction of the name " Jhon Shaksper " written against John Shaksper's " mark . " The reader will see this much better if he will refer to Mr. Halliwell- Phillipps's Outlines , Vol . I , p . 38 , where ...
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In Re Shakespeare - Beeching V. Greenwood; Rejoinder on Behalf of the Defendant G. G. Greenwood No preview available - 2007 |
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Page 67 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James!
Page 94 - He was much given to all unluckiness, in stealing venison and rabbits ; particularly from Sir Lucy, who had him oft whipped, and sometimes imprisoned, and at last made him fly his native country, to his great advancement.
Page 73 - 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 30 - I have heard that Mr. Shakespeare was a natural wit, without any art at all; he frequented the plays all his younger time, but in his elder days lived at Stratford, and supplied the stage with two plays every year ; and for that had an allowance so large that he spent at the rate of 1 ,0:1.1/. a year, as I have heard.
Page 70 - ... who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went together; and what he thought, he uttered with that easinesse that wee have scarse received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 31 - This William being inclined naturally to poetry and acting, came to London, I guesse, about 1 8 ; and was an actor at one of the play-houses, and did act exceedingly well (now B.
Page 37 - His name is printed, as the custom was in those times, amongst those of the other players, before some old plays, but without any particular account of what sort of parts he used to play : and though I have inquired, I could never meet with any further account of him this way than that the top of his performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet.
Page 116 - Latin he was master of: but the narrowness of his circumstances, and the want of his assistance at home, forced his father to withdraw him from thence, and unhappily prevented his further proficiency in that language.
Page 1 - Though it has hitherto been too much to ask people to suppose that SHAKSPERE knew how to spell his own name, I hope the demand may not prove too great for the imagination of the Members of the New Society.
Page 70 - ... and all the rest absolute in their numbers as he conceived them; who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it.