The Women of ShakespeareG.P. Putnam, 1895 - 384 pages |
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... WOMEN OF SHAKESPEARE L. Lewes , Published on demand by UNIVERSITY MICROFILMS University Microfilms Limited , High Wycomb , England A Xerox Company , Ann Arbor , Michigan , U.S.A. 8 . ! I This is an authorized facsimile of.
... WOMEN OF SHAKESPEARE L. Lewes , Published on demand by UNIVERSITY MICROFILMS University Microfilms Limited , High Wycomb , England A Xerox Company , Ann Arbor , Michigan , U.S.A. 8 . ! I This is an authorized facsimile of.
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... England reached under her great , though , from the point of view of posterity , scarcely amiable Queen Elizabeth ... England . Certainly , if we adopt the measures now in use for gauging the satisfactory condition of a state , of its ...
... England reached under her great , though , from the point of view of posterity , scarcely amiable Queen Elizabeth ... England . Certainly , if we adopt the measures now in use for gauging the satisfactory condition of a state , of its ...
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... England in that severance from the Roman See which led only by secondary paths and in consequence of circumstances to what is called the Reformation . This great change occurred in England not through a common . and irresistible ...
... England in that severance from the Roman See which led only by secondary paths and in consequence of circumstances to what is called the Reformation . This great change occurred in England not through a common . and irresistible ...
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... England hung the lives and the property of all his subjects . With a wave of his hand or a glance of his eye he ... England during the reign of Henry VIII . , and for ten years after his death , are described by Schiller in his Maria ...
... England hung the lives and the property of all his subjects . With a wave of his hand or a glance of his eye he ... England during the reign of Henry VIII . , and for ten years after his death , are described by Schiller in his Maria ...
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Louis Lewes. I see this high nobility of England , The proud majestic Senate of the kingdom , As slaves of the Serail the Sultan's will , Flatter King Henry Eighth , my stern great uncle ; I see , besides , this noble upper house , As ...
Louis Lewes. I see this high nobility of England , The proud majestic Senate of the kingdom , As slaves of the Serail the Sultan's will , Flatter King Henry Eighth , my stern great uncle ; I see , besides , this noble upper house , As ...
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Page 186 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down (The rate of usance here with us in Venice.
Page 291 - Why have my sisters husbands, if they say, They love you, all ? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord, whose hand must take my plight, shall carry Half my love with him, half my care, and duty : Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.
Page 220 - And, father cardinal, I have heard you say That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born.
Page 280 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse; which I observing, Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Page 10 - This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands ; This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian service and true chivalry, As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son ; This land of such dear...
Page 279 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it ; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence And portance in my travels...
Page 38 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 307 - Even here undone ! I was not much afeard : for once or twice I was about to speak, and tell him plainly The self-same sun that shines upon his court Hides not his visage from our cottage, but Looks on alike.
Page 228 - Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love, And sing them loud even in the dead of night; Holla your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out, Olivia!
Page 64 - Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.