Shakespeare : His Life, Art, and Characters: With an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Growth of the Drama in England, Band 1Ginn brothers, 1902 |
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... remarkable in his not being able to wield a pen . As Bailiff of Stratford , he was ex officio a justice of the peace ; and two warrants are extant , granted by him in December , 1568 , for the arrest of John Ball and Richard Walcar on ...
... remarkable in his not being able to wield a pen . As Bailiff of Stratford , he was ex officio a justice of the peace ; and two warrants are extant , granted by him in December , 1568 , for the arrest of John Ball and Richard Walcar on ...
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... remarkable , or more generally commended , than his singular aloofness of self , his perfect freedom from every thing bordering upon egotism . Our Mr. White is especially hard upon the Poet's wife , worrying up the matter against her ...
... remarkable , or more generally commended , than his singular aloofness of self , his perfect freedom from every thing bordering upon egotism . Our Mr. White is especially hard upon the Poet's wife , worrying up the matter against her ...
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... remarkable a passage . Be that as it may , the station which the Poet's family had long held at Stratford , and the fact of his having influential friends at hand from Warwickshire , are enough to stamp it as an arrant fiction . We have ...
... remarkable a passage . Be that as it may , the station which the Poet's family had long held at Stratford , and the fact of his having influential friends at hand from Warwickshire , are enough to stamp it as an arrant fiction . We have ...
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... remarkable as having required four scaffolds for the exhihition ; Tiberius , Herod , Pilate , and the Devil having each their several sta- ⚫tions ; and one of the directions being , " Enter the Prince of Devils on a stage , and Hell ...
... remarkable as having required four scaffolds for the exhihition ; Tiberius , Herod , Pilate , and the Devil having each their several sta- ⚫tions ; and one of the directions being , " Enter the Prince of Devils on a stage , and Hell ...
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... remarkable , also , in having been such a popular favourite , that the phrase " Hick Scorner's jests " grew into use as a proverb , to signify the profane scurrility with which certain persons treated the Scriptures in the reign of ...
... remarkable , also , in having been such a popular favourite , that the phrase " Hick Scorner's jests " grew into use as a proverb , to signify the profane scurrility with which certain persons treated the Scriptures in the reign of ...
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action appears beauty Ben Jonson better called character charm Christian comedy comic course critics delineation Devil Drama effect English Falstaff fancy father faults feel Francis Meres genius grace hand hath heart hero honour human humour inspiration instance John Shakespeare King Henry King Lear less live Lord Love's Labour's Lost Malvolio matter means Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice merry mind Miracle-Plays moral nature ness never noble original Pandosto passage passion perhaps persons piece play Poet Poet's poetry Prince purpose reason scene seems sense Shake Shakespeare shows Shylock sort soul speak speech spirit stage stand Stratford strong style sure sweet tale taste tells thing Thomas Lodge thou thought tion touch true truth Twelfth Night virtue whole wife William Shakespeare Winter's Tale withal words workmanship writing written
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Seite 39 - 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...
Seite 199 - I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; — And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies...
Seite 360 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Seite 227 - O my love ! my wife ! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty : Thou art not conquer'd ; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Seite 48 - 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...
Seite 260 - Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world, By their increase, now knows not which is which.
Seite 202 - O ! they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word ; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.
Seite 200 - How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenity and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree stand in authentic place? Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark what discord follows.
Seite 227 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath. That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Seite 469 - I'd have you buy and sell so ; so, give alms ; Pray, so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that : move still, still so, And own no other function.