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... James , 4 , Booth Street , Piccadilly , Manchester . Curzon , Hon . Robert , 24 , Arlington Street ; Parham Park , Steyning , Suffex . Delamere , Lord , Carlton Club , Pall Mall ; Vale Royal , Northwich , Cheshire . Delepierre , Octave ...
... James , 4 , Booth Street , Piccadilly , Manchester . Curzon , Hon . Robert , 24 , Arlington Street ; Parham Park , Steyning , Suffex . Delamere , Lord , Carlton Club , Pall Mall ; Vale Royal , Northwich , Cheshire . Delepierre , Octave ...
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... James , 71 , Eaton Square ; Profpect Hill House , Reading . Holford , Robert Stayner , M. P. , Dorchester House , Park Lane ; Weftonbirt , Tetbury , Gloucestershire . Hope , Alexander James Beresford , M.P. , Arklow House , Connaught ...
... James , 71 , Eaton Square ; Profpect Hill House , Reading . Holford , Robert Stayner , M. P. , Dorchester House , Park Lane ; Weftonbirt , Tetbury , Gloucestershire . Hope , Alexander James Beresford , M.P. , Arklow House , Connaught ...
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... James I , ' under the date 1614 , fays , " It is a truth which requires " no demonftration , that Shakespeare , in " his own time , was little more thought of " by the public than his fellow - playwrights " were . ' 1 Thomas Betterton ...
... James I , ' under the date 1614 , fays , " It is a truth which requires " no demonftration , that Shakespeare , in " his own time , was little more thought of " by the public than his fellow - playwrights " were . ' 1 Thomas Betterton ...
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... James's Patent to the Players , granted in 1603 , fpells the name in the fame manner ; and fo do the deeds con- nected with his two most important purchases : New Place in 1597 , and the Stratford tithes in 1605. This was certainly the ...
... James's Patent to the Players , granted in 1603 , fpells the name in the fame manner ; and fo do the deeds con- nected with his two most important purchases : New Place in 1597 , and the Stratford tithes in 1605. This was certainly the ...
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... enacted in the days of Elizabeth as well as of James , and any hesitation was apt to be vifited with the pains and penalties of præmunire . But it is document , wherein he is defcribed ( the only inftance 4 of Shakespeare . 25.
... enacted in the days of Elizabeth as well as of James , and any hesitation was apt to be vifited with the pains and penalties of præmunire . But it is document , wherein he is defcribed ( the only inftance 4 of Shakespeare . 25.
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The Biography and Bibliography of Shakespeare Henry George Bohn,Philobiblon Society (Great Britain) No preview available - 1863 |
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Page 328 - The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutored lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.
Page 158 - 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 307 - ... who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went together; and what he thought, he uttered with that easinesse that wee have scarse received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 312 - 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 80 - 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 303 - We have but collected them, and done an office to the dead to procure his orphanes guardians; without ambition either of selfe-profit or fame, onely to keepe the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive, as was our Shakespeare, by humble offer of his playes to your most noble patronage.
Page 81 - That very time I saw (but thou could'st not), Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd...
Page 116 - Which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who chose that circumstance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted; and to justify mine own candour; for I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.
Page 110 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, 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.
Page 310 - To draw no envy (Shakespeare) on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy booke and fame; While I confesse thy writings to be such, As neither man nor muse can praise too much, 'Tis true, and all mens suffrage.