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... . Collier's folio . And finally appeared an edition of Shakespeare's Works edited by that gentleman , in which he adopted the greater part of the anonymous substitutions , and strenuously advocated the remainder PREFACE . ix.
... . Collier's folio . And finally appeared an edition of Shakespeare's Works edited by that gentleman , in which he adopted the greater part of the anonymous substitutions , and strenuously advocated the remainder PREFACE . ix.
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... gentleman named Parry . That soon after the discovery of the folio , he had produced it before the Council of the Shakespeare Society , and at two or three assemblies of the Society of Antiquaries . That he had given , not sold the ...
... gentleman named Parry . That soon after the discovery of the folio , he had produced it before the Council of the Shakespeare Society , and at two or three assemblies of the Society of Antiquaries . That he had given , not sold the ...
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... gentlemen . " This is an error . The register styles none of the family " gentleman " except the poet himself , and even he is so distinguished only after he had returned to his native place with the glory and fortune acquired by his ...
... gentlemen . " This is an error . The register styles none of the family " gentleman " except the poet himself , and even he is so distinguished only after he had returned to his native place with the glory and fortune acquired by his ...
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... gentleman , as he thought , somewhat too severely ; and , in order to revenge that ill usage , he made a ballad upon him . And though this , probably the first essay of his poetry , be lost , yet it is said to have been so very bitter ...
... gentleman , as he thought , somewhat too severely ; and , in order to revenge that ill usage , he made a ballad upon him . And though this , probably the first essay of his poetry , be lost , yet it is said to have been so very bitter ...
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... gentlemen were accustomed to ride to the playhouse , Shakespear , driven to the last necessity , went to the playhouse door , and pick'd up a little money , by taking care of the gentlemen's horses who came to the play : he became ...
... gentlemen were accustomed to ride to the playhouse , Shakespear , driven to the last necessity , went to the playhouse door , and pick'd up a little money , by taking care of the gentlemen's horses who came to the play : he became ...
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Page 471 - Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king?
Page 374 - Lovers, and madmen, have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt...
Page 310 - For heaven's sake, Hubert, let me not be bound! Nay, hear me, Hubert: drive these men away, And I will sit as quiet as a lamb; I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word, Nor look upon the iron angerly. Thrust but these men away, and I'll forgive you, Whatever torment you do put me to.
Page 168 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid ; Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Page 3 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.