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John Richard de Capel Wise. REESE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA . Received June Accessions No. 56928 Shelf No. 1888 9320 W813 9 " Doubtless Shakspere had seen many a Bottom in. นาฬิกา 221 Shak.
John Richard de Capel Wise. REESE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA . Received June Accessions No. 56928 Shelf No. 1888 9320 W813 9 " Doubtless Shakspere had seen many a Bottom in. นาฬิกา 221 Shak.
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John Richard de Capel Wise. " Doubtless Shakspere had seen many a Bottom in the old Warwickshire hamlets ; many a Sir Nathaniel playing ' Alissander , ' and finding himself ' a little o'erparted . ' He had been with Snug the joiner ...
John Richard de Capel Wise. " Doubtless Shakspere had seen many a Bottom in the old Warwickshire hamlets ; many a Sir Nathaniel playing ' Alissander , ' and finding himself ' a little o'erparted . ' He had been with Snug the joiner ...
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... seen Shakspere . " Had we seen him , most likely we should have found him a man like ourselves , greater because he was not less but more of a man , suffering terribly from all the ills to which flesh is heir ; and we should have been ...
... seen Shakspere . " Had we seen him , most likely we should have found him a man like ourselves , greater because he was not less but more of a man , suffering terribly from all the ills to which flesh is heir ; and we should have been ...
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... seen the ocean ; but the ocean of eternity I shall not fail to see . " And just as climate modifies the physical condition of a nation , so scenery affects the mental condition of a poet . I have no wish to strain the theory . I know ...
... seen the ocean ; but the ocean of eternity I shall not fail to see . " And just as climate modifies the physical condition of a nation , so scenery affects the mental condition of a poet . I have no wish to strain the theory . I know ...
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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...
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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...
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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...