Shakespeare's Autobiographical Poems: Being His Sonnets Clearly Developed: with His Character Drawn Chiefly from His Works |
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... to fix the precise period ; but probably he was about that age at the time . We are also ignorant whether he took his wife and children with him , or if , from the first , he paid occasional visits to Stratford , as tradition , 24 HIS ...
... to fix the precise period ; but probably he was about that age at the time . We are also ignorant whether he took his wife and children with him , or if , from the first , he paid occasional visits to Stratford , as tradition , 24 HIS ...
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... ignorant as he was of every thing else in Shakespeare's life , to know that extraordinary circum- stance , it was related by some nameless person , who assured Rowe that the story was handed down by D'Avenant 34 HIS LIFE ,
... ignorant as he was of every thing else in Shakespeare's life , to know that extraordinary circum- stance , it was related by some nameless person , who assured Rowe that the story was handed down by D'Avenant 34 HIS LIFE ,
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... ignorant of the manner in which it was shown , appears to have been ungovernable . He alludes to it in this poem with deep regret : " I may not evermore acknowledge thee , Lest my bewailed guilt should do thee shame . " These lines , no ...
... ignorant of the manner in which it was shown , appears to have been ungovernable . He alludes to it in this poem with deep regret : " I may not evermore acknowledge thee , Lest my bewailed guilt should do thee shame . " These lines , no ...
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... Ignorant writers learn something , and the learned double the majesty of their lines from you . Yet be most proud of my verse , inspired by you alone . 79. Whilst I was your only poet , you favoured me ; but now I must yield to another ...
... Ignorant writers learn something , and the learned double the majesty of their lines from you . Yet be most proud of my verse , inspired by you alone . 79. Whilst I was your only poet , you favoured me ; but now I must yield to another ...
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... knowledge of the human heart , intended to flatter a patron , he betrayed more ignorance of the means to accomplish his end than the dullest slave . Such a conclusion is an absurdity . SIXTH POEM . STANZAS CXXVII TO CLII . TO HIS.
... knowledge of the human heart , intended to flatter a patron , he betrayed more ignorance of the means to accomplish his end than the dullest slave . Such a conclusion is an absurdity . SIXTH POEM . STANZAS CXXVII TO CLII . TO HIS.
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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.