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... believe with a full faith that here Shakspere , when a young man , came and won his wife . It is something to think of , that Shakspere's helpmate - the woman who above every one else influences a man's life for either extreme good or ...
... believe with a full faith that here Shakspere , when a young man , came and won his wife . It is something to think of , that Shakspere's helpmate - the woman who above every one else influences a man's life for either extreme good or ...
Page 73
... believe in the creeds of South Sea Islanders than in such utter baseness of thought . If there is one thing Shakspere dwells upon more than another it is the duty and love of husband and wife , and of children to parents . To suppose ...
... believe in the creeds of South Sea Islanders than in such utter baseness of thought . If there is one thing Shakspere dwells upon more than another it is the duty and love of husband and wife , and of children to parents . To suppose ...
Page 76
... a word To make him believe he was a lord : But you affirm , and in it seem most eager , " Twill make a lord as drunk as any beggar . people really existed - good Justice Shallow , and Davy 76 SHAKSPERE AND HIS BIRTHPLACE .
... a word To make him believe he was a lord : But you affirm , and in it seem most eager , " Twill make a lord as drunk as any beggar . people really existed - good Justice Shallow , and Davy 76 SHAKSPERE AND HIS BIRTHPLACE .
Page 80
... believe it , for I do not like rooting up such old beliefs . The place is quite beautiful enough for such a scene ; only do not ask me to believe too literally , for the poet's mind wanders over all space , un- consciously gathering up ...
... believe it , for I do not like rooting up such old beliefs . The place is quite beautiful enough for such a scene ; only do not ask me to believe too literally , for the poet's mind wanders over all space , un- consciously gathering up ...
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... believe it has never been published before except in a work which is now very scarce : " On the 18th day of July , 1588 , in morning , there happened about eight of the clock , in Avon , such a sudden floode , as carried away all the ...
... believe it has never been published before except in a work which is now very scarce : " On the 18th day of July , 1588 , in morning , there happened about eight of the clock , in Avon , such a sudden floode , as carried away all the ...
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Page 54 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page 94 - O God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain : To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point...
Page 128 - With fairest flowers Whilst summer lasts and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor The azured harebell, like thy veins, no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Page 119 - Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines* of bright gold: There's not the smallest orb, which thou behold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim: Such harmony is in immortal souls; . But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
Page 1 - 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...
Page 102 - Perfume for a lady's chamber ; Golden quoifs and stomachers, For my lads to give their dears: Pins and poking-sticks of steel. What maids lack from head to heel: Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy; Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry : Come buy.
Page 65 - 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 48 - Sometime he runs among a flock of sheep, To make the cunning hounds mistake their smell. And sometime where earth-delving conies keep, To stop the loud pursuers in their yell ; And sometime sorteth with a herd of deer: Danger deviseth shifts; wit waits on fear: ' For there his smell with others...
Page 27 - Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, Fool'd by those rebel powers that thee array, Why dost thou pine within, and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward walls so costly gay ? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy charge ? Is this thy body's end ? Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, And let that pine to aggravate thy store ; Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross ; Within be fed, without...
Page 60 - Shakespear comyng yesterdy to town, I went to see him how he did. He told me that they assured him they ment to inclose no further than to...