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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... Lives of the Poets , by Theophilus Cibber ' ( 1753 ) was the first to relate the story that his original connection with the playhouse was as holder of the horses of visitors outside the doors . Accord- ing to the same writer , the ...
... Lives of the Poets , by Theophilus Cibber ' ( 1753 ) was the first to relate the story that his original connection with the playhouse was as holder of the horses of visitors outside the doors . Accord- ing to the same writer , the ...
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... live with me and be my love . ' Between February 1593 and the end of the year the London theatres were closed , owing to the prevalence of the plague , and Shakespeare doubtless travelled with his company in the country . But his pen ...
... live with me and be my love . ' Between February 1593 and the end of the year the London theatres were closed , owing to the prevalence of the plague , and Shakespeare doubtless travelled with his company in the country . But his pen ...
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... live defamed ; The World will thinke Authoritie did gaine me ; I shall be judg'd his Love and so be shamed ; We see the faire condemn'd that never gamed ; And if I yeeld , ' tis honourable shame ; If not , I live disgrac'd , yet thought ...
... live defamed ; The World will thinke Authoritie did gaine me ; I shall be judg'd his Love and so be shamed ; We see the faire condemn'd that never gamed ; And if I yeeld , ' tis honourable shame ; If not , I live disgrac'd , yet thought ...
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... live another age . ' In 1595 William Clerke in his ' Poli- manteia ' gave ' all praise ' to ' sweet Shakespeare ' for his ' Lucrecia . ' John Weever , in a sonnet addressed to ' honey - tongued Shakespeare ' in his ' Epigrams 48 ...
... live another age . ' In 1595 William Clerke in his ' Poli- manteia ' gave ' all praise ' to ' sweet Shakespeare ' for his ' Lucrecia . ' John Weever , in a sonnet addressed to ' honey - tongued Shakespeare ' in his ' Epigrams 48 ...
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... live , and surely it shall live for ever : For ever it shall live , and shall rehearse His worthie praise , and vertues dying never , Though death his soul doo from his body sever ; And thou thyself herein shalt also live : Such grace ...
... live , and surely it shall live for ever : For ever it shall live , and shall rehearse His worthie praise , and vertues dying never , Though death his soul doo from his body sever ; And thou thyself herein shalt also live : Such grace ...
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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.