Memoirs of the Life of William Shakespeare: With an Essay Toward the Expression of His Genius, and an Account of the Rise and Progress of the English DramaLittle, Brown,, 1865 - 425 Seiten |
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... brought a suit against Henry Field , who un- justly kept from him eighteen quarters of barley . John Shakespeare's private and public fortunes advanced steadily and rapidly for twenty years from the time when he first appears in ...
... brought a suit against Henry Field , who un- justly kept from him eighteen quarters of barley . John Shakespeare's private and public fortunes advanced steadily and rapidly for twenty years from the time when he first appears in ...
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... brought forward to sustain each of these traditions as to his early occupation , surely a wise and penetrative method of getting at the truth in such a matter . Let us see . When we read a pas- sage like this in King Henry the Sixth ...
... brought forward to sustain each of these traditions as to his early occupation , surely a wise and penetrative method of getting at the truth in such a matter . Let us see . When we read a pas- sage like this in King Henry the Sixth ...
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... brought forward , and much more probable . The first scene of The Merry Wives of Wind- sor certainly gives strong support to the tradition ; so strong , in fact , that it has been supposed , with some reason , to have been its origin ...
... brought forward , and much more probable . The first scene of The Merry Wives of Wind- sor certainly gives strong support to the tradition ; so strong , in fact , that it has been supposed , with some reason , to have been its origin ...
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... brought forward as the remainder of the lampoon ; but they are too plainly spurious to be worthy of notice . The story of the deer - stealing is said by Mr. Fullom , in his History of William Shakespeare , to be confirmed by a note ...
... brought forward as the remainder of the lampoon ; but they are too plainly spurious to be worthy of notice . The story of the deer - stealing is said by Mr. Fullom , in his History of William Shakespeare , to be confirmed by a note ...
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... Shakespeare , in which he brought to notice six documents as having been found at Bridge- water House among the papers of Lord Ellesmere , who was this time he had produced , in addition to his WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE . 93.
... Shakespeare , in which he brought to notice six documents as having been found at Bridge- water House among the papers of Lord Ellesmere , who was this time he had produced , in addition to his WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE . 93.
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Seite 301 - fore the king, The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp That beats upon the high shore of this world, No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony, Not all these, laid in bed majestical, Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave; Who, with a body fill'd, and vacant mind, -Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread...
Seite 36 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; "Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Seite 300 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Seite 153 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Seite 87 - The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster...
Seite 217 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Seite 209 - Egyptian strainers and channels, and came to him not without some tincture of the learning, or some cast of the models of those before him. The poetry of Shakspeare was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator as an instrument of nature ; and it is not so just to say that he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him.
Seite 166 - His pleasurable wit, and good nature, engaged him in the acquaintance, and entitled him to the friendship of the gentlemen of the neighbourhood.
Seite 90 - Is not this the carpenter's son ? is not his mother called Mary ? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas ? And his sisters, are they not all with us ? Whence then hath this man all these things ? And they were offended in him.
Seite 260 - And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state...