Shakespeare's Life and Work: Being an Abridgement, Chiefly for the Use of Students, of A Life of William ShakespeareMacmillan, 1900 - 231 pages |
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... French critics ' gradual emancipation from Voltairean influence 197 Shakespeare on the French stage · 198 Shakespeare in Italy . 198 XIX • 201 Its universal recogni- tion . General estimate Shakespeare's defects . 201 Character of Shake ...
... French critics ' gradual emancipation from Voltairean influence 197 Shakespeare on the French stage · 198 Shakespeare in Italy . 198 XIX • 201 Its universal recogni- tion . General estimate Shakespeare's defects . 201 Character of Shake ...
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... French litera- ture to English translations . But several of the books in French and Italian whence Shakespeare derived the plots of his dramas Belleforest's ' Histoires Tragiques , ' Ser Giovanni's ' Il Pecorone , ' and Cinthio's ...
... French litera- ture to English translations . But several of the books in French and Italian whence Shakespeare derived the plots of his dramas Belleforest's ' Histoires Tragiques , ' Ser Giovanni's ' Il Pecorone , ' and Cinthio's ...
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... French may be estimated to have equalled his knowledge of Latin , while he doubtless pos- sessed just sufficient acquaintance with Italian to enable him to discern the drift of an Italian poem or novel . Of the few English books ...
... French may be estimated to have equalled his knowledge of Latin , while he doubtless pos- sessed just sufficient acquaintance with Italian to enable him to discern the drift of an Italian poem or novel . Of the few English books ...
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... French affairs in connection with Navarre's movements that Shakespeare was led into the error of numbering him , although an enemy of Navarre , among his supporters . Mothe , or La Mothe , the name of the pretty , ingenious page , was ...
... French affairs in connection with Navarre's movements that Shakespeare was led into the error of numbering him , although an enemy of Navarre , among his supporters . Mothe , or La Mothe , the name of the pretty , ingenious page , was ...
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... French by Pierre Boaistuau de Launay , an occasional collaborator in the ' Histoires Tragiques ' of François de Belleforest ( Paris , 1559 ) , and it was in process of dramatisation by both French and Spanish writers about the same time ...
... French by Pierre Boaistuau de Launay , an occasional collaborator in the ' Histoires Tragiques ' of François de Belleforest ( Paris , 1559 ) , and it was in process of dramatisation by both French and Spanish writers about the same time ...
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Page 67 - The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutor'd 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 62 - Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room. Even in the eyes of all posterity That wear this world out to the ending doom.
Page 189 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 92 - 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 141 - True, representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry the Eighth, which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage; the knights of the order, with their Georges and Garter, the guards with their embroidered coats and the like: sufficient, in truth, within a while, to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous.
Page 55 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Page 38 - As it hath been often (with great applause) plaid publiquely, by the right Honourable the L. of Hunsdon his Seruants.
Page 73 - And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes. Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rhyme, While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes; And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.
Page 93 - As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare : witness his ' Venus and Adonis,' his ' Lucrece,' his sugared sonnets among his private friends, &c.
Page 144 - The latter part of his life was spent, as all men of good sense will wish theirs may be, in ease, retirement, and the conversation of his friends. He had the good fortune to gather an estate equal to his occasion, and, in that, to his wish ; and is said to have spent some years before his death at his native Stratford.