Bacon and Shakespeare: An Inquiry Touching Players, Playhouses, and Play-writers in the Days of ElizabethJ. R. Smith, 1857 - 166 Seiten |
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... sonnets he claimed ; and there is an undoubted difficulty in understanding how a man who cared about Lucrece and Venus and Adonis , could be negligent about Hamlet and Othello . Yet Shake- speare was unquestionably indifferent about the ...
... sonnets he claimed ; and there is an undoubted difficulty in understanding how a man who cared about Lucrece and Venus and Adonis , could be negligent about Hamlet and Othello . Yet Shake- speare was unquestionably indifferent about the ...
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... sonnets " ? Archimedes is reported to have said , boasting of the power of the lever , " Give me a spot to stand on , and I will move the world . " So certain critics exclaim , " Grant Shakespeare wrote the sonnets , and we will prove ...
... sonnets " ? Archimedes is reported to have said , boasting of the power of the lever , " Give me a spot to stand on , and I will move the world . " So certain critics exclaim , " Grant Shakespeare wrote the sonnets , and we will prove ...
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... sonnets ; we hope to do so at some future time ; but we will briefly state our belief , that many of the phases of Bacon's early life might be traced in them . Bacon owns to having written one sonnet . In The Apology of Sir Frances ...
... sonnets ; we hope to do so at some future time ; but we will briefly state our belief , that many of the phases of Bacon's early life might be traced in them . Bacon owns to having written one sonnet . In The Apology of Sir Frances ...
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... Sonnets , the editor proceeds : - " As to his ( Shakespeare's ) general capacity , manifested by his conversation with other great minds , Fuller bears personal testimony . Many were the Wit Combats , ' says he , ' between Shakespeare ...
... Sonnets , the editor proceeds : - " As to his ( Shakespeare's ) general capacity , manifested by his conversation with other great minds , Fuller bears personal testimony . Many were the Wit Combats , ' says he , ' between Shakespeare ...
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... sonnet , and that learned men would as little have prided them- selves upon writing one , as upon uttering a bon mot - that the first collection of plays that as- sumed anything like the appearance of a literary work was Ben Jonson's ...
... sonnet , and that learned men would as little have prided them- selves upon writing one , as upon uttering a bon mot - that the first collection of plays that as- sumed anything like the appearance of a literary work was Ben Jonson's ...
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Seite 27 - 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 130 - And worse I may be yet : the worst is not So long as we can say,
Seite 32 - ... and that he Who casts to write a living line must sweat (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Seite 74 - King Henry, making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch...
Seite 43 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely...
Seite 31 - Accius, him of Cordova dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread, And shake a stage; or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.
Seite 26 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
Seite 20 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Seite 72 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the mean time two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Seite 32 - Muses' anvil, turn the same (And himself with it) that he thinks to frame, Or for the laurel he may gain a scorn, For a good poet's made as well as born; And such wert thou. Look how the father's face Lives in his issue; even so, the race Of Shakespeare's mind and manners brightly shines In his well-turned and true-filed lines, In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.