The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere, Volume 7C. Knight, 1851 |
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... Lives that have been written are conjectural . This Biography ' is only so far more conjectural than any other , as regards the form which it assumes , by which it has been endeavoured to associate Shakspere with the ! circumstances ...
... Lives that have been written are conjectural . This Biography ' is only so far more conjectural than any other , as regards the form which it assumes , by which it has been endeavoured to associate Shakspere with the ! circumstances ...
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... live . The division of employments had not so com- pletely separated a town life from a country life as with us ; and even the town occupations , the town amusements , and the town wonders , had more variety in them than our own days of ...
... live . The division of employments had not so com- pletely separated a town life from a country life as with us ; and even the town occupations , the town amusements , and the town wonders , had more variety in them than our own days of ...
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... live a life of happy industry till 1491. But the world in general derived little advantage from his labours . Another came after him , commissioned by royal authority to search into all the archives of the kingdom , and to rescue from ...
... live a life of happy industry till 1491. But the world in general derived little advantage from his labours . Another came after him , commissioned by royal authority to search into all the archives of the kingdom , and to rescue from ...
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... live in the same dismal castle that his predatory fathers had built or won , the churchmen went on from age to age adding to their splendid edifices , and demanding a succes- sion of ingenious artists to carry out their lofty ideas ...
... live in the same dismal castle that his predatory fathers had built or won , the churchmen went on from age to age adding to their splendid edifices , and demanding a succes- sion of ingenious artists to carry out their lofty ideas ...
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... live , " is the maxim of the Host in " The Merry Devil of Edmonton ; " and even Sir John , the priest , reproves him not : he joins in the fun . The dramatic , and even the serious , literature of Shakspere's youth treats deer ...
... live , " is the maxim of the Host in " The Merry Devil of Edmonton ; " and even Sir John , the priest , reproves him not : he joins in the fun . The dramatic , and even the serious , literature of Shakspere's youth treats deer ...
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Page 203 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 141 - You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 118 - I'll read, his for his love. Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Page 240 - I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 129 - gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow, Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow: And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand, Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.
Page 243 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting. martlet, does approve, By his lov'd mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coigne of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed, and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observ'd, The air is delicate.
Page 151 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 230 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 229 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...
Page 105 - When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now, Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held...