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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... passed . The last two writers seemed also to have exhausted the field of research in regard to the history of the English drama and the English stage . But Mr. Collier's later work upon those subjects , by its ful- viii PREFACE .
... passed . The last two writers seemed also to have exhausted the field of research in regard to the history of the English drama and the English stage . But Mr. Collier's later work upon those subjects , by its ful- viii PREFACE .
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... passed before the public in days when the pen recorded scandal in the diary , and when the press , though the daily newspaper did not yet exist , teemed with personality . Yet of Dante , driven in haughty wretchedness from city to city ...
... passed before the public in days when the pen recorded scandal in the diary , and when the press , though the daily newspaper did not yet exist , teemed with personality . Yet of Dante , driven in haughty wretchedness from city to city ...
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... original form to show that William Shakespeare was born and passed his childhood and his adolescent years in a home which was not only pretty and pictu- resque , but very comfortable and unusually com- modious for 16 MEMOIRS OF.
... original form to show that William Shakespeare was born and passed his childhood and his adolescent years in a home which was not only pretty and pictu- resque , but very comfortable and unusually com- modious for 16 MEMOIRS OF.
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... passed into the hands of an associa- tion , under whose care it has been renovated ; but unfortunately , like some of the Shakespeare po- etry , not restored to a close resemblance to its first condition ; though that was perhaps in ...
... passed into the hands of an associa- tion , under whose care it has been renovated ; but unfortunately , like some of the Shakespeare po- etry , not restored to a close resemblance to its first condition ; though that was perhaps in ...
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... passed through a period of fearful trial . scourge made Stratford desolate . In six months one sixth of their neighbors were buried . But although around them there was hardly a house in which there was not one dead , there was a charm ...
... passed through a period of fearful trial . scourge made Stratford desolate . In six months one sixth of their neighbors were buried . But although around them there was hardly a house in which there was not one dead , there was a charm ...
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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...