The Secret Drama of Shakespeare's SonnetsRichard Clay, 1888 - 482 pages |
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... false hair and face - painting . His protest is even passionate- " So is it not with me as with that Muse Stirred by a painted beauty to his verse . " " " He did not dally with the shadows of ideas , but wrote of persons , especially of ...
... false hair and face - painting . His protest is even passionate- " So is it not with me as with that Muse Stirred by a painted beauty to his verse . " " " He did not dally with the shadows of ideas , but wrote of persons , especially of ...
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... false view and act upon it , may do as Othello did , and as others have done , who murdered by mistake . Such was the position of an old Shakspearian who says in a letter to me- " Six years ago I wrote and read a paper on the Sonnets ...
... false view and act upon it , may do as Othello did , and as others have done , who murdered by mistake . Such was the position of an old Shakspearian who says in a letter to me- " Six years ago I wrote and read a paper on the Sonnets ...
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... false excuses and abject servility , all belong to a speaker who is NOT Shakspeare . These things can no more be made personal to our Poet by any racking of ingenuity or reach of an emasculate imagination than the sea can be taken on ...
... false excuses and abject servility , all belong to a speaker who is NOT Shakspeare . These things can no more be made personal to our Poet by any racking of ingenuity or reach of an emasculate imagination than the sea can be taken on ...
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... false as the foundations are unsound ; and the falsehood of his misleading inference is solely based upon the funda- mental fallacy of the Autobiographic theory of the Sonnets . No biography of our Poet can be safely built with this ...
... false as the foundations are unsound ; and the falsehood of his misleading inference is solely based upon the funda- mental fallacy of the Autobiographic theory of the Sonnets . No biography of our Poet can be safely built with this ...
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... false inference that she was his mistress , and insist that such Sonnets were written dramatically on subjects supplied or suggested by the " Private Friends . " He was not the only " Will " in the world . Any- way , with his own name ...
... false inference that she was his mistress , and insist that such Sonnets were written dramatically on subjects supplied or suggested by the " Private Friends . " He was not the only " Will " in the world . Any- way , with his own name ...
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Adonis allusion Bacon Barley-Break beauty Beauty's Ben Jonson called character colour Court dear death dedication disgrace doth DRAMATIC SONNETS Earl of Southampton Earl's eclipse Elizabeth Vernon Essex eyes face fact fair false favour feeling flower fool Fortune Fytton Gentlemen of Verona give grace hath heart heaven honour King Lady Rich Latter Sonnets letter live look Lord Lord Mountjoy Love's Love's Labour's Lost lover Marlowe marriage married matter mind mistress Muse Nash nature never night passion Personal Sonnets player Plays poem Poet Poet's poetry praise printed Private Friends Queen Rowland White says Shak Shakspeare Shakspeare's Sonnets Sidney Sidney's sight Sonnet 29 Sonnet 38 Sonnet 40 soul speak speaker spirit Stella sweet tell thee thine things thou art thought thyself true truth Venus and Adonis verse whilst William Herbert woman words writing written youth
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Page 69 - Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies, Where all the treasure of thy lusty days, To say, within thine own deep-sunken eyes, Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise.
Page 32 - Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill. To win me soon to hell, my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
Page 158 - Was it the proud full sail of his great verse, Bound for the prize of all too precious you, That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse, Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew ? Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead ? No, neither he, nor his compeers by night Giving him aid, my verse astonished.
Page 285 - Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew; Nor did I wonder at the...
Page 271 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? • Thou art more lovely and more temperate; Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.
Page 282 - Though I, once gone, to all the world must die. The earth can yield me but a common grave. When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read. And tongues to be your being shall rehearse When all the breathers of this world are dead. You still shall live — such virtue hath my pen — Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.
Page 271 - That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows Whereon the stars in secret influence comment; When I perceive that men as plants increase, Cheered and check'd even by the self-same sky, Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease, And wear their brave state out of memory; Then the conceit of this inconstant stay Sets you most rich in youth before my sight...
Page 221 - Past reason hated, as a swallowed bait, On purpose laid to make the taker mad: Mad in pursuit, and in possession so; Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme; A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe; Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.
Page 212 - And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes, Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rhyme, While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes: And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.
Page 287 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.