The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 2R. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... brother- hood of the Gild , An ° . Dni . 1408 , x Henry iiii . " fol . iii , b . The tithes of this rectory do not appear to have belonged to the Guild of the Holy Cross in the 22d year of Henry VIII . ( 1530 ) ; not being mentioned in ...
... brother- hood of the Gild , An ° . Dni . 1408 , x Henry iiii . " fol . iii , b . The tithes of this rectory do not appear to have belonged to the Guild of the Holy Cross in the 22d year of Henry VIII . ( 1530 ) ; not being mentioned in ...
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... brother of the name of Nicholas . That part of the paper which contained an account of the probate , being torn off , and wanting , I know not when he died . Bundle of Wills , sub an . 1574 , ut supra . George , the younger son of the ...
... brother of the name of Nicholas . That part of the paper which contained an account of the probate , being torn off , and wanting , I know not when he died . Bundle of Wills , sub an . 1574 , ut supra . George , the younger son of the ...
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... brother William ; and his cousin Laurence Shaxper , of Balsal . Bundle of Wills , sub an . 1575 , ut supra . William Shaxpeare , of Wroxall , husbandman , made his will April 17 , 1609 , and died some time before April 11 , 1613 , when ...
... brother William ; and his cousin Laurence Shaxper , of Balsal . Bundle of Wills , sub an . 1575 , ut supra . William Shaxpeare , of Wroxall , husbandman , made his will April 17 , 1609 , and died some time before April 11 , 1613 , when ...
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... brothers , and sisters of that gild , from the time of King Henry the Fourth to its dissolution , in the time of Edward the Sixth . In this ancient record , which I have care- fully examined , during the entire reigns of Henry the ...
... brothers , and sisters of that gild , from the time of King Henry the Fourth to its dissolution , in the time of Edward the Sixth . In this ancient record , which I have care- fully examined , during the entire reigns of Henry the ...
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... brother of the name of Henry ; and another paper , which I have also found among the archives of Stratford , informs us that Henry Shak- speare was of Snitterfield . To the will of Christopher Smyth , otherwise Court , of Strat- ford ...
... brother of the name of Henry ; and another paper , which I have also found among the archives of Stratford , informs us that Henry Shak- speare was of Snitterfield . To the will of Christopher Smyth , otherwise Court , of Strat- ford ...
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Page 418 - Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.
Page 348 - Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 113 - War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it ; Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 662 - Reade him, therefore; and againe, and againe: And if then you doe not like him, surely you are in some manifest danger, not to understand him.
Page 363 - He is a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and scorner of others, given rather to lose a friend than a jest, jealous of every word and action of those about him (especially after drink, which is one of the elements in which he liveth...
Page 285 - Will in that station, was the faint, general, and almost lost ideas, he had of having once seen him act a part in one of his own comedies, wherein being to personate a decrepit old man, he wore a long beard, and appeared so weak and drooping, and unable to walk, that he was forced to be supported and carried by another person to a table, at which he was seated among some company who were eating, and one of them sung a song.
Page 308 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot (the terror of the French) to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his 180 tomb, he should triumph again on the stage, and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spectators at least (at several times), who in the tragedian that represents his person imagine they behold him fresh bleeding.
Page 303 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 492 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 492 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature, had an excellent fancy, brave notions, and gentle expressions ; wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped : Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius.