The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 2R. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... I think , enumerated above twenty different ancient modes of spelling that name . The name of Villiers , Fuller observes , was spelt fourteen different ways : and his studies , and the means and gradations whereby he 2 THE LIFE OF.
... I think , enumerated above twenty different ancient modes of spelling that name . The name of Villiers , Fuller observes , was spelt fourteen different ways : and his studies , and the means and gradations whereby he 2 THE LIFE OF.
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William Shakespeare James Boswell. his studies , and the means and gradations whereby he acquired that consummate knowledge of mankind , which , for two centuries , has rendered him the delight and boast ... means and gradations whereby ...
William Shakespeare James Boswell. his studies , and the means and gradations whereby he acquired that consummate knowledge of mankind , which , for two centuries , has rendered him the delight and boast ... means and gradations whereby ...
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... mean Sir Richard Verney , of Compton Murdock , about eight miles from Stratford , the first Lord Willoughby de Broke . He was born in January , 1621-2 , and survived the publication of Mr. Rowe's edition of Shakspeare , dying at the ...
... mean Sir Richard Verney , of Compton Murdock , about eight miles from Stratford , the first Lord Willoughby de Broke . He was born in January , 1621-2 , and survived the publication of Mr. Rowe's edition of Shakspeare , dying at the ...
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... means uniform in writing their names : some exhibiting it in one way , some in another . In Leland's time , the name , we find , had acquired the softer sound which we now give it : indeed , a century before , if Fuller is correct ...
... means uniform in writing their names : some exhibiting it in one way , some in another . In Leland's time , the name , we find , had acquired the softer sound which we now give it : indeed , a century before , if Fuller is correct ...
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... means of ascertaining the genuine copy of an author's writings , and of dis- tinguishing it from spurious and adulterated editions of them , de- serves the name of illustration : he would have found from these wills , that the two ...
... means of ascertaining the genuine copy of an author's writings , and of dis- tinguishing it from spurious and adulterated editions of them , de- serves the name of illustration : he would have found from these wills , that the two ...
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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.