Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1907 |
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... field . It is at all events not very likely that a woman , unendowed with an exceptionally healthy and vigorous frame , could have been the parent of a Shakespeare . Of her personal character or social gifts nothing whatever is known ...
... field . It is at all events not very likely that a woman , unendowed with an exceptionally healthy and vigorous frame , could have been the parent of a Shakespeare . Of her personal character or social gifts nothing whatever is known ...
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... field , amongst the copses of Snitterfield , by the side of the river or that of his uncle's hedgerows . Henry Shakespeare , the poet's uncle , resided on a large farm near Snitterfield church . The house has long dis- appeared , but ...
... field , amongst the copses of Snitterfield , by the side of the river or that of his uncle's hedgerows . Henry Shakespeare , the poet's uncle , resided on a large farm near Snitterfield church . The house has long dis- appeared , but ...
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... roisterers in the taverns of Stratford , but in sports of the wood and the field that may have been illegally pursued , but were nevertheless regarded by the multitude as indications of manly spirit and gallantry . Sir Philip OUTLINES . 71.
... roisterers in the taverns of Stratford , but in sports of the wood and the field that may have been illegally pursued , but were nevertheless regarded by the multitude as indications of manly spirit and gallantry . Sir Philip OUTLINES . 71.
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... fields to the interior of the theatre may not have been long deferred , but all the evidences unite in affirming that Shakespeare 83 entered the latter in a very humble capacity . The best authority on this point is one William Castle ...
... fields to the interior of the theatre may not have been long deferred , but all the evidences unite in affirming that Shakespeare 83 entered the latter in a very humble capacity . The best authority on this point is one William Castle ...
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James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps. LONDIN VM FERACISS GLIAE REGNI MET Clarkenwells ch atter how அ Smythe Field IMI AN ROPOLIS 编 A Chaphims Holres m the wa. 86 OUTLINES .
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps. LONDIN VM FERACISS GLIAE REGNI MET Clarkenwells ch atter how அ Smythe Field IMI AN ROPOLIS 编 A Chaphims Holres m the wa. 86 OUTLINES .
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Page 171 - 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 phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Page 100 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, 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 153 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Page 116 - ... 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. His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Caesar, thou dost me wrong,"...
Page 124 - Gentlewomen; and after such Sports, a Comedy of Errors (like to Plautus his Menechmus] was played by the Players. So that Night was begun, and continued to the end, in nothing but Confusion and Errors; whereupon, it was ever afterwards called, The Night of Errors.
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Page 100 - With neither of them that take offence was I acquainted, and with one of them I care not if I never be...
Page 237 - I might steal them from him ; and hee, to do himselfe right, hath since published them in his owne name : but as I must acknowledge my lines not worthy his patronage under whom he hath publisht them, so the Author I know much offended with M. Jaggard that (altogether unknowne to him...
Page 289 - We have but collected them, and done an office to the dead, to procure his orphans guardians; without ambition either of self-profit or fame; only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare, by humble offer of his plays to your most noble patronage.