Bacon Versus Shakspere: A Plea for the DefendantLovell printing and publishing Company, 1875 - 187 pages |
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... critics are in point of fact " as that small infantry Warr'd on by cranes . " The general and almost universal concession of our modern playwrights and actors of any culture , or note , has been that the author of the plays which common ...
... critics are in point of fact " as that small infantry Warr'd on by cranes . " The general and almost universal concession of our modern playwrights and actors of any culture , or note , has been that the author of the plays which common ...
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... with the Greek , Latin and Italian Poets . In this discourse , the first criticism on Shakspere that ever appeared in print , occurs the following : - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the " best for BACON versus SHAKSPERE . 25.
... with the Greek , Latin and Italian Poets . In this discourse , the first criticism on Shakspere that ever appeared in print , occurs the following : - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the " best for BACON versus SHAKSPERE . 25.
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... question , for it has never been doubted amongst learned critics that the sonnets , poems , and plays were the work of one and the same author . Were Shakspere , Ben Jonson and Milton liars ? were BACON versus SHAKSPERE . 33.
... question , for it has never been doubted amongst learned critics that the sonnets , poems , and plays were the work of one and the same author . Were Shakspere , Ben Jonson and Milton liars ? were BACON versus SHAKSPERE . 33.
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... critics . " True , Coleridge , -True , -but alas ! Shaks- pere had no desire for fame- " that glorious immortality of true greatness " That lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes , And perfect witness of all judging Jove . " I ...
... critics . " True , Coleridge , -True , -but alas ! Shaks- pere had no desire for fame- " that glorious immortality of true greatness " That lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes , And perfect witness of all judging Jove . " I ...
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... critic , * " a certain manly , healthy , and fearless hardihood , as opposed to an effemi- nate , sickly , nervous sensitiveness of moral feeling , which is far better suited than the latter to the rude atmosphere of this work- ing ...
... critic , * " a certain manly , healthy , and fearless hardihood , as opposed to an effemi- nate , sickly , nervous sensitiveness of moral feeling , which is far better suited than the latter to the rude atmosphere of this work- ing ...
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Page 130 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back...
Page 104 - Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
Page 131 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar; graves at my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth By my so potent art.
Page 67 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment : who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot : who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Page 92 - Lear. What, art mad ? A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears : see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
Page 94 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 15 - 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...
Page 26 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 11 - This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut...
Page 118 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.