The Homes of Shakspere

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Chapman and Hall, 1847 - 32 pages
 

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Page 32 - Triumph, my Britain! Thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time...
Page 13 - All the time of her life a true and faithful servant of her good God ; never detected of any crime or vice ; in religion — most sound, in love to her husband most...
Page 9 - The walls of its squalid chambers are covered with names and inscriptions in every language by pilgrims of all nations, ranks, and conditions, from the prince to the peasant, and present a simple but striking instance of the spontaneous and universal bom \ge of mankind to the great poet of Nature.
Page 28 - Olympvs habet. Stay, passenger, why goest thov by so fast ? Read, if thov canst, whom enviovs Death hath plast Within this monvment : SHAKSPEARE : with whome Qvick Natvre dide ; whose name doth deck ys tombe Far more than cost ; sieth all yt he hath writt Leaves living art bvt page to serve his witt. Obiit Ano.-Doi. 1616. yEtatis 53. Die. 23. Ap.
Page 13 - When all is spoken that can be said, a woman so furnished and garnished with virtue, as not to be bettered and hardly to be equalled by any. As she lived most virtuously, so she died most godly. Set down by him that best did know what hath been written to be true. THOMAS LUCY.
Page 7 - ... the house to sit ; whether this be done with the hope of imbibing any of the inspiration of the bard I am at a loss to say, I merely mention the fact ; and mine hostess privately assured .me, that, though built of solid oak, such was the fervent zeal of devotees, that the chair had to be new bottomed at least once in three years.
Page 10 - I'll slay a doe, while I live. Hold your bow straight and steady : I serve the good Duke of Norfolk. SMUG.
Page 24 - He was wont to go to his native country once a year. I think I have been told that he left 200?.

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