Outlines of the Life of Shakespeareauthor's friends, 1884 - 192 Seiten |
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... instances , from his own recollections of them . It would , therefore , be hazardous as a rule to depend upon his ... instance , give credence to his assertion that Shakespeare's father was a butcher , in the literal sense of that ...
... instances , from his own recollections of them . It would , therefore , be hazardous as a rule to depend upon his ... instance , give credence to his assertion that Shakespeare's father was a butcher , in the literal sense of that ...
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... instances nearly as curious might be adduced , including the verification , already mentioned , of one of Rowe's statements that was first given by him from an oral source a hundred and thirty years after the period to which it refers ...
... instances nearly as curious might be adduced , including the verification , already mentioned , of one of Rowe's statements that was first given by him from an oral source a hundred and thirty years after the period to which it refers ...
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... instance , that the diction and construc- tion of a drama written with a view to its performance at the Court might be essentially dissimilar from those of a play of the same date composed merely for the ordinary stage , where the ...
... instance , that the diction and construc- tion of a drama written with a view to its performance at the Court might be essentially dissimilar from those of a play of the same date composed merely for the ordinary stage , where the ...
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... instance , Higford , the Steward of the Court of Record , and the person who transcribed some of his accounts when he was the borough Chamberlain ; but it is as likely as not that the poet received the first rudiments of education from ...
... instance , Higford , the Steward of the Court of Record , and the person who transcribed some of his accounts when he was the borough Chamberlain ; but it is as likely as not that the poet received the first rudiments of education from ...
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... instances , as in those of Adam and Eve , there was an attempt to make the dresses harmonize with the circumstances of the history . Some writers , in- terpreting the stage - directions too literally , have asserted that those ...
... instances , as in those of Adam and Eve , there was an attempt to make the dresses harmonize with the circumstances of the history . Some writers , in- terpreting the stage - directions too literally , have asserted that those ...
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Seite 118 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Seite 123 - 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 ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Seite 77 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Seite 215 - We have but collected them, and done an office to the dead, to procure his orphans guardians; without ambition either of self-profit or fame; only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare, by humble offer of his plays to your most noble patronage.
Seite 87 - ... as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent fancy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped. 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 99 - A spacious field of reasons could I urge , Between his glory, daughter , and thy shame : That poison shows worst in a golden cup ; Dark night seems darker by the lightning flash ; Lilies, that fester, smell far worse than weeds; And every glory that inclines to sin, The shame is treble by the opposite.
Seite 77 - With neither of them that take offence was I acquainted, and with one of them I care not if I never be...
Seite 172 - I might steal them from him ; and hee, to do himselfe right, hath since published them in his owne name : but as I must acknowledge my lines not worthy his patronage under whom he hath publisht them, so the Author I know much offended with M. Jaggard that (altogether unknowne to him...
Seite 149 - Newly imprinted and enlarged to almost as much againe as it was, according to the true and perfect Coppie.
Seite 31 - Mayor to enforme him what noble-mans servants they are, and so to get licence for their publike playing; and if the Mayor like the actors, or would shew respect to their lord and master, he appoints them to play their first play before...