Shakespeare's Autobiographical Poems: Being His Sonnets Clearly Developed: with His Character Drawn Chiefly from His Works |
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... hand , Cowper and Burns , contrasts in all but sincerity , may be brought forward as evidences that it is possible for poets , and poets of a high order , to write nothing in discordance , as far as we are enabled to judge , with their ...
... hand , Cowper and Burns , contrasts in all but sincerity , may be brought forward as evidences that it is possible for poets , and poets of a high order , to write nothing in discordance , as far as we are enabled to judge , with their ...
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... hands , that he was educated at the grammar - school of his native town ; and it is reasonable to believe that he was benefitted there with a foundation for classical study . We are told , indeed , by Aubrey , ( no good authority , I ...
... hands , that he was educated at the grammar - school of his native town ; and it is reasonable to believe that he was benefitted there with a foundation for classical study . We are told , indeed , by Aubrey , ( no good authority , I ...
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... of these visits , doubtless , his townsman or relative , Thomas Greene , when he was of the company , took him by the hand , and led him delighted among his fellows . Q HIS LIFE , FROM 1585 TO 1600 . OUR first IN WARWICKSHIRE . 25.
... of these visits , doubtless , his townsman or relative , Thomas Greene , when he was of the company , took him by the hand , and led him delighted among his fellows . Q HIS LIFE , FROM 1585 TO 1600 . OUR first IN WARWICKSHIRE . 25.
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... hand . I even suspect it had Shakespeare took it in As for the six plays , added to his , after the first folio , Locrine , Sir John Oldcastle , Yorkshire Tragedy , Lord Cromwell , The Puritan , and The London Pro- digal , I have read ...
... hand . I even suspect it had Shakespeare took it in As for the six plays , added to his , after the first folio , Locrine , Sir John Oldcastle , Yorkshire Tragedy , Lord Cromwell , The Puritan , and The London Pro- digal , I have read ...
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... hand in hand with the deductions I may draw . For , in their explanation , I stand not in need of ex- tracts from the writings of his contemporaries , or from any extraneous work whatever . I rely on the Sonnets before me , and on them ...
... hand in hand with the deductions I may draw . For , in their explanation , I stand not in need of ex- tracts from the writings of his contemporaries , or from any extraneous work whatever . I rely on the Sonnets before me , and on them ...
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Page 98 - d no sooner but despised straight; Past reason hunted; and no sooner had, Past reason hated, as a swallowed bait, On purpose laid to make the taker mad...
Page 65 - gainst my fury Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further : Go, release them, Ariel ; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, And they shall be themselves.
Page 190 - That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts ; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 32 - 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 154 - Dis's waggon! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Page 71 - Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.
Page 266 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 74 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
Page 29 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Page 268 - And he, the man whom Nature self had made To mock herself, and Truth to imitate, With kindly counter under mimic shade, Our pleasant Willy, ah! is dead of late: With whom all joy and jolly merriment Is also deaded, and in dolour drent.