Life of ShakespeareBigelow Smith, 1909 - 222 Seiten |
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... early part of the follow- ing century , to his native town , where he is found , in 1602 , completing an important legal transaction with which he was entrusted by the great dramatist . His Christian name was probably derived from that ...
... early part of the follow- ing century , to his native town , where he is found , in 1602 , completing an important legal transaction with which he was entrusted by the great dramatist . His Christian name was probably derived from that ...
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... early drama which can be fairly considered to be of an immodest character , although many of them were ex- travagantly whimsical . Thus Herod was always intro- duced wearing red gloves , while his clothes and head- gear seem to have ...
... early drama which can be fairly considered to be of an immodest character , although many of them were ex- travagantly whimsical . Thus Herod was always intro- duced wearing red gloves , while his clothes and head- gear seem to have ...
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... early writers to any dramas which were of an ethical or edu- cational character . Morals were not only performed in Shakespeare's day , but continued to be a then recognized form of dramatic composition . Some of them were nearly as ...
... early writers to any dramas which were of an ethical or edu- cational character . Morals were not only performed in Shakespeare's day , but continued to be a then recognized form of dramatic composition . Some of them were nearly as ...
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... earliest knowledge of Latin was de- rived from two well - known books of the time , the Acci- dence and the Sententia Pueriles . From the first of these works the improvised examination of Master Page in the Merry Wives of Windsor is so ...
... earliest knowledge of Latin was de- rived from two well - known books of the time , the Acci- dence and the Sententia Pueriles . From the first of these works the improvised examination of Master Page in the Merry Wives of Windsor is so ...
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... early youth . Nearly every one of the boy's connections , as well as his uncle Henry , was a farmer . There was the brother of Agnes Arden , Alexander Webbe of Snitterfield , who died in 1573 , appointing " to be my overseers to see ...
... early youth . Nearly every one of the boy's connections , as well as his uncle Henry , was a farmer . There was the brother of Agnes Arden , Alexander Webbe of Snitterfield , who died in 1573 , appointing " to be my overseers to see ...
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Seite 64 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Seite 74 - ... as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent fancy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped. Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Caesar, thou dost me wrong,"...
Seite 102 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Seite 163 - I might steale them from him, and hee, to doe himselfe right, hath since published them in his owne name : but, as I must acknowledge my lines not worthy his patronage under whom he hath publisht them, so the author, I know, much offended with M. Jaggard (that altogether unknowne to him), presumed to make so bold with his name.
Seite 115 - I loved the man, and do honor his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was indeed honest, and of an open and free nature...
Seite 64 - With neither of them that take offence was I acquainted, and with one of them I care not if I never be...
Seite 28 - His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech.
Seite 84 - A spacious field of reasons could I urge , Between his glory, daughter , and thy shame : That poison shows worst in a golden cup ; Dark night seems darker by the lightning flash ; Lilies, that fester, smell far worse than weeds; And every glory that inclines to sin, The shame is treble by the opposite.
Seite 116 - As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras: so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare, witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrèce, his sugared Sonnets among his private friends, fyc.
Seite 15 - In the city of Gloucester the manner is (as I think it is in other like corporations) that, when players of enterludes come to town, they first attend the mayor, to inform him what nobleman's servants they are, and so to get licence for their public playing; and if the mayor like the actors, or would show respect to their lord and master, he appoints them to play their first play before himself and...