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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... volume is to present , in language as terse and definite as possible , the net results of trustworthy research respecting Shakespeare's life and writings . In regard to topics of controversy the author confines himself to a statement of ...
... volume is to present , in language as terse and definite as possible , the net results of trustworthy research respecting Shakespeare's life and writings . In regard to topics of controversy the author confines himself to a statement of ...
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... volume will be found , as in the former editions , a succinct bibliography of Shakespearean literature and a note on the Bacon - Shakespeare controversy . The pictorial illustrations include the ' Droeshout ' painting or ' Flower ...
... volume will be found , as in the former editions , a succinct bibliography of Shakespearean literature and a note on the Bacon - Shakespeare controversy . The pictorial illustrations include the ' Droeshout ' painting or ' Flower ...
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... volumes of poems must be added to the total . Ben Jonson was often told by the players that ' whatsoever he penned he never blotted out [ i.e. erased ] a line . ' The editors of the First Folio attested that ' what he thought he uttered ...
... volumes of poems must be added to the total . Ben Jonson was often told by the players that ' whatsoever he penned he never blotted out [ i.e. erased ] a line . ' The editors of the First Folio attested that ' what he thought he uttered ...
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... volume , which was printed by Thomas Creede of Thames Street , bore the title ' The first part of the Contention betwixt the two famous houses of Yorke and Lancaster . ' The play dealing with the third part of Henry VI's reign was first ...
... volume , which was printed by Thomas Creede of Thames Street , bore the title ' The first part of the Contention betwixt the two famous houses of Yorke and Lancaster . ' The play dealing with the third part of Henry VI's reign was first ...
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... volume , James Roberts , who was in a large way of business in the Barbican , had ready means of access to theatrical manuscripts , whether or no the play- wright assented to their publication , for he was printer and publisher of ' the ...
... volume , James Roberts , who was in a large way of business in the Barbican , had ready means of access to theatrical manuscripts , whether or no the play- wright assented to their publication , for he was printer and publisher of ' the ...
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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.