Shakespeare's Centurie of Prayse: Being Materials for a History of Opinion on Shakespeare and His Works, Culled from Writers of the First Century After His RiseClement Mansfield Ingleby For the editor, printed by J. Allen of Birmingham & pub. by Trübner & Company, 1874 - 362 pages |
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... himself of his liability to oversight and error . Yet as furely , if he had the conceit of regarding himself as nothing if not critical , and worfe than nothing if not accurate , as being beyond , not indeed the poffibility , but the ...
... himself of his liability to oversight and error . Yet as furely , if he had the conceit of regarding himself as nothing if not critical , and worfe than nothing if not accurate , as being beyond , not indeed the poffibility , but the ...
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... himself at one with him here . Affuredly no one during the * In allufion to Spenfer's Teares of the Mufes , Mr. Massey writes thus : " But we may fafely say that no man living in 1590 ever faw Shakespeare as the ' man whom Nature's felf ...
... himself at one with him here . Affuredly no one during the * In allufion to Spenfer's Teares of the Mufes , Mr. Massey writes thus : " But we may fafely say that no man living in 1590 ever faw Shakespeare as the ' man whom Nature's felf ...
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... himself , Webster , and Camden , after enume- rating various contemporary poets , apologet- ically give the last place to Shakespeare , the two former employing the proverbial phrase " laft not least , " or an equivalent . It would be ...
... himself , Webster , and Camden , after enume- rating various contemporary poets , apologet- ically give the last place to Shakespeare , the two former employing the proverbial phrase " laft not least , " or an equivalent . It would be ...
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... himself . Mr. C. Elliot Browne , in a note on the side - note ( Notes and Queries , 4th S. xi . 378 ) , falls into the same error . Shakespeare's name occurs in a work printed in 1594 . The construction of the side - note is not ( as Mr ...
... himself . Mr. C. Elliot Browne , in a note on the side - note ( Notes and Queries , 4th S. xi . 378 ) , falls into the same error . Shakespeare's name occurs in a work printed in 1594 . The construction of the side - note is not ( as Mr ...
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... himself . Adde to all these , that though his Genius generally was jocular and inclining him to feftivity , yet he could ( when fo difpofed ) be folemn and ferious , as appears by his Tragedies ; fo that Heraclitus himself ( I mean if ...
... himself . Adde to all these , that though his Genius generally was jocular and inclining him to feftivity , yet he could ( when fo difpofed ) be folemn and ferious , as appears by his Tragedies ; fo that Heraclitus himself ( I mean if ...
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Page 280 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Page 72 - O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow ; he brought up Horace, giving the poets a pill ; but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge, that made him bewray his credit.
Page 247 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Page xv - With neither of them that take offence was I acquainted ; and with one of them, I care not if I never be...
Page 165 - So that the sum of all is, ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
Page 17 - Midsummers night dreame, and his Merchant of Venice; for tragedy, his Richard the 2, Richard the 3, Henry the 4, King John, Titus Andronicus and his Romeo and Juliet.
Page 106 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the 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 177 - Philomel, with melody Sing in our sweet lullaby ; Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby : Never harm, Nor spell nor charm, Come our lovely lady nigh ; So, good night, with lullaby.
Page 135 - SHAKE-SPEARE, at length thy pious fellowes give The world thy Workes: thy Workes, by which, out-live Thy Tombe, thy name must: when that stone is rent, And Time dissolves thy Stratford Moniment, Here we alive shall view thee still.
Page 87 - ... otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envie his friends the office of their care and paine to have collected and publish'd them...