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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... kind of formal recognition . As to the superior martial significance of this name to all others , we have , indeed , Breakspeare , Winspeare , Shakeshaft , Shakelance , Briselance , Hackstaff , Drawswerde , Cur- tlemace , Battleman ...
... kind of formal recognition . As to the superior martial significance of this name to all others , we have , indeed , Breakspeare , Winspeare , Shakeshaft , Shakelance , Briselance , Hackstaff , Drawswerde , Cur- tlemace , Battleman ...
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... kind of bliss to those people who have taken up the novel notion of the day , that men of mark derive their mental and their moral gifts , not from the father , but the mother . A fungus fancy , which must have sprung up while men could ...
... kind of bliss to those people who have taken up the novel notion of the day , that men of mark derive their mental and their moral gifts , not from the father , but the mother . A fungus fancy , which must have sprung up while men could ...
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... kind , he could have learned Latin and some Greek . Some English too ; but not much , for English was held in scorn by the scholars of those days , and long after . The only qualifications for admission to this school were residence in ...
... kind , he could have learned Latin and some Greek . Some English too ; but not much , for English was held in scorn by the scholars of those days , and long after . The only qualifications for admission to this school were residence in ...
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... kind of training to which he was subjected , it was well perhaps for William Shakespeare that his masters knew only what he then was . Insight of the future would not always bring good fortune . At school Shakespeare acquired some knowl ...
... kind of training to which he was subjected , it was well perhaps for William Shakespeare that his masters knew only what he then was . Insight of the future would not always bring good fortune . At school Shakespeare acquired some knowl ...
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... kind with inexorable and indiscriminating severity , and that judgment outrageously unjust which visits all the sin upon the weaker and already suffering party . Yet if in the present instance it must be that one or other of this couple ...
... kind with inexorable and indiscriminating severity , and that judgment outrageously unjust which visits all the sin upon the weaker and already suffering party . Yet if in the present instance it must be that one or other of this couple ...
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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...