William Shakespeare: A Literary BiographyG. Bell and sons, 1888 - 587 pages |
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... speare's life , his works , and his surroundings , together with a careful criticism of all the disputed points . It has been one of the author's endeavours to make his book a readable one in every way , and to retain his reader's atten ...
... speare's life , his works , and his surroundings , together with a careful criticism of all the disputed points . It has been one of the author's endeavours to make his book a readable one in every way , and to retain his reader's atten ...
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... very hypotheses more especially that want a proper foundation , as , for instance , his supposition that Shake- speare's wife was afflicted in mind ( i . 240 ) . B way , as Lord Bacon once remarked , that large CHAP PAGE HOME AND CHILDHOOD.
... very hypotheses more especially that want a proper foundation , as , for instance , his supposition that Shake- speare's wife was afflicted in mind ( i . 240 ) . B way , as Lord Bacon once remarked , that large CHAP PAGE HOME AND CHILDHOOD.
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... speare of earth , as I suspect , there was also one of heaven ; and it is of him that we desire to know something . " This seems to us to be based upon a strange mistake . For of the heavenly Shakespeare we have the fullest report in ...
... speare of earth , as I suspect , there was also one of heaven ; and it is of him that we desire to know something . " This seems to us to be based upon a strange mistake . For of the heavenly Shakespeare we have the fullest report in ...
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... speare's life , it is , that he left Stratford not as an apprentice , but as a married man and a father . Further , the passage which the advocates of the butcher - tradition quote from Shakespeare in support of their theory , has no ...
... speare's life , it is , that he left Stratford not as an apprentice , but as a married man and a father . Further , the passage which the advocates of the butcher - tradition quote from Shakespeare in support of their theory , has no ...
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... speare's lameness , viz . , an accident met with during his military service in the Netherlands ! The whole story is wisely and wittily refuted in Notes and Queries , 5th series , January 31st , 1874 , p . 80 ff . * In his Microcosmus ...
... speare's lameness , viz . , an accident met with during his military service in the Netherlands ! The whole story is wisely and wittily refuted in Notes and Queries , 5th series , January 31st , 1874 , p . 80 ff . * In his Microcosmus ...
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Page 152 - English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, .tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 448 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 230 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Page 144 - 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.
Page 559 - This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut...
Page 539 - Peace, plenty, love, truth, terror, That were the servants to this chosen infant, Shall then be his, and like a vine grow to him ; Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine, His honour and the greatness of his name Shall be, and make new nations...