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... possess the private letters and diaries of Shakspere , what use could we make of them ? One man only has been born , since Shakspere died , fit to write his history , and that man , Goethe , is a foreigner . Most biographies , even ...
... possess the private letters and diaries of Shakspere , what use could we make of them ? One man only has been born , since Shakspere died , fit to write his history , and that man , Goethe , is a foreigner . Most biographies , even ...
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John Richard de Capel Wise. Still the wish will ever linger that we did possess some scraps of information . We ever shall care to know what we can about our greatest men ; it is the one feeling that will last to all time : and this love ...
John Richard de Capel Wise. Still the wish will ever linger that we did possess some scraps of information . We ever shall care to know what we can about our greatest men ; it is the one feeling that will last to all time : and this love ...
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... possess . Originally it was coloured , the eyes being a light hazel , and the hair and beard auburn . In 1743 it was repainted , and the old colours were faithfully preserved ; but in 1793 Malone caused the whole bust to be whitewashed ...
... possess . Originally it was coloured , the eyes being a light hazel , and the hair and beard auburn . In 1743 it was repainted , and the old colours were faithfully preserved ; but in 1793 Malone caused the whole bust to be whitewashed ...
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... possess of Shakspere's family , and as the reader is not likely to inspect them , I have determined to give a short summary of their contents . They enable us * * I here take the opportunity of thanking Mr. W. O. Hunt for his repeated ...
... possess of Shakspere's family , and as the reader is not likely to inspect them , I have determined to give a short summary of their contents . They enable us * * I here take the opportunity of thanking Mr. W. O. Hunt for his repeated ...
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... possessing the large quantity of ten quarters , and learn from the ward in which his name appears that he was living at New Place . for the same year we meet with the following : - " Pd . to Mr. Shaxspere for on lod of ston . And in a ...
... possessing the large quantity of ten quarters , and learn from the ward in which his name appears that he was living at New Place . for the same year we meet with the following : - " Pd . to Mr. Shaxspere for on lod of ston . And in a ...
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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...