Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1907 |
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... least the average . At the present day , with biography carried to a wasteful and ridiculous . excess , and Shakespeare the idol not merely of a nation but of the educated world , it is difficult to realize a period when no interest was ...
... least the average . At the present day , with biography carried to a wasteful and ridiculous . excess , and Shakespeare the idol not merely of a nation but of the educated world , it is difficult to realize a period when no interest was ...
Page vii
... least egotistical , one of his profoundest achievements being , by rapid permutations of thought and feeling , to identify himself for the moment with the inner consciousness of each person appearing on the scene . In the course of that ...
... least egotistical , one of his profoundest achievements being , by rapid permutations of thought and feeling , to identify himself for the moment with the inner consciousness of each person appearing on the scene . In the course of that ...
Page ix
... least deserving of a careful examination , the following observations on a few of the most important are submitted to the judgment of the impartial reader . The earliest recorded traditions at present known are those imbedded in a ...
... least deserving of a careful examination , the following observations on a few of the most important are submitted to the judgment of the impartial reader . The earliest recorded traditions at present known are those imbedded in a ...
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... least to a rustic guide , for an attempt to set out dramatic eminence in bolder relief by an intentional exaggeration of early troubles ; and the main facts of the poet's Stratford life would , moreover , have been clearly known in that ...
... least to a rustic guide , for an attempt to set out dramatic eminence in bolder relief by an intentional exaggeration of early troubles ; and the main facts of the poet's Stratford life would , moreover , have been clearly known in that ...
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... least of his traditional notices , those which refer to the embarrassed circum- stances of John Shakespeare , and to the name of Oldcastle , -have been verified by modern research ; while there are several allusions which indicate that ...
... least of his traditional notices , those which refer to the embarrassed circum- stances of John Shakespeare , and to the name of Oldcastle , -have been verified by modern research ; while there are several allusions which indicate that ...
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Page 405 - The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster, with the death of the good Duke Humphrey : And the banishment and death of the Duke of...
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.
Page 409 - William Shak-speare: HIS True Chronicle Historic of the life and death of King LEAR and his three Daughters.
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.