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... appears , was not answered . In the spring of last year I again called upon him , and reiterated my reasons for desiring the volume should be examined , and if possible by him . This time I was more successful . Sir Frederic immediately ...
... appears , was not answered . In the spring of last year I again called upon him , and reiterated my reasons for desiring the volume should be examined , and if possible by him . This time I was more successful . Sir Frederic immediately ...
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... . In this attempt , the amount of reference and quotation will be seen to have been very great . It has , however , been much greater than it appears , since , with a few exceptions where the books or MSS . were unattainable , PREFACE .
... . In this attempt , the amount of reference and quotation will be seen to have been very great . It has , however , been much greater than it appears , since , with a few exceptions where the books or MSS . were unattainable , PREFACE .
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... appears to have done , since he was intimately associated with Sir William Davenant ( born in 1605 ) , and was apprenticed to a bookseller named Rhodes , who in his younger days was wardrobe - keeper to the theatre in Blackfriars . From ...
... appears to have done , since he was intimately associated with Sir William Davenant ( born in 1605 ) , and was apprenticed to a bookseller named Rhodes , who in his younger days was wardrobe - keeper to the theatre in Blackfriars . From ...
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... appears to have been of the class of small farmers in the villages , and of respectable shopkeepers in the towns ; no proof having been found , that any public honour or private fortune was ever acquired by its members . 7 6 About 1551 ...
... appears to have been of the class of small farmers in the villages , and of respectable shopkeepers in the towns ; no proof having been found , that any public honour or private fortune was ever acquired by its members . 7 6 About 1551 ...
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... appear to have been prosperous . On the 2d of October , 1556 , a year before he wedded Mary Arden , he purchased the ... appears from the Patent Rolls of that reign , was related to the Ardens of Wilme- cote ; but there can be little ...
... appear to have been prosperous . On the 2d of October , 1556 , a year before he wedded Mary Arden , he purchased the ... appears from the Patent Rolls of that reign , was related to the Ardens of Wilme- cote ; but there can be little ...
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Page 512 - I'll sup. Farewell. Poins. Farewell, my lord. [Exit POINS. P. Hen. I know you all, and will a while uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness : Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds ' To smother up his beauty from the world, That when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours, that did seem to strangle him.
Page 328 - O, let us pay the time but needful woe, Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. — 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 427 - But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings ; It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, — That in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation ; we do pray for mercy ; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much, To mitigate the justice of thy plea ; Which if thou follow, this strict...
Page 352 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 174 - But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks! It is the east, and Juliet is the sun ! — Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she...
Page 594 - With deaf'ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude; And, in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king ? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 433 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines...
Page 29 - Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her ? Holy, fair, and wise is she, The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be. Is she kind as she is fair ? For beauty lives with kindness : Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness ; And, being help'd, inhabits there. Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling : She excels each mortal thing, Upon the dull earth dwelling : To her let us garlands bring.
Page 426 - It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd, — It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest : it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, — It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then...
Page 14 - Many were the wit-combats betwixt him and Ben Jonson; which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning; solid, but slow, in his performances. Shakespeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.