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... actor , and one of the editors of the folio volume , was born within a mile of Stratford - on- Avon . Mr. Sidney Lee states that Heminge was born at Droitwich . I hope I may be pardoned , if " for this occasion only , " I state that ...
... actor , and one of the editors of the folio volume , was born within a mile of Stratford - on- Avon . Mr. Sidney Lee states that Heminge was born at Droitwich . I hope I may be pardoned , if " for this occasion only , " I state that ...
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... the principal actors who have appeared on the English stage . * " Shakespeare Studies in Baconian Light , " by R. M. Theobald . I also remembered , that Mr. Edward Malone , one I WHEN I was about to enter upon my duties, ...
... the principal actors who have appeared on the English stage . * " Shakespeare Studies in Baconian Light , " by R. M. Theobald . I also remembered , that Mr. Edward Malone , one I WHEN I was about to enter upon my duties, ...
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... noticed the Rev. Thomas Adams , the Dean of Worcester , and Dr. Richard Sibbes ; among the actors , Heminge , Condel , Sly , Philips ; among the poets , Drayton , Marston , and Chapman . The Earls of Pembroke and Montgomery were also 3.
... noticed the Rev. Thomas Adams , the Dean of Worcester , and Dr. Richard Sibbes ; among the actors , Heminge , Condel , Sly , Philips ; among the poets , Drayton , Marston , and Chapman . The Earls of Pembroke and Montgomery were also 3.
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... actors on the stage . I remember Mr. William Shakespeare , as an actor , from the year 1588 . He was then taking part in the pieces presented by the Lord Chamberlain's servants , who performed at the Theatre in Blackfriars , and ...
... actors on the stage . I remember Mr. William Shakespeare , as an actor , from the year 1588 . He was then taking part in the pieces presented by the Lord Chamberlain's servants , who performed at the Theatre in Blackfriars , and ...
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... actors , and about that time Shakespeare , a young man from the country , as I believed , appeared on the stage . To show you my intimacy with Marlowe and so with the stage , I may tell you that in 1598 , five years after Marlowe's ...
... actors , and about that time Shakespeare , a young man from the country , as I believed , appeared on the stage . To show you my intimacy with Marlowe and so with the stage , I may tell you that in 1598 , five years after Marlowe's ...
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Page lvii - Soul of the age ! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage ! My Shakespeare, rise ; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser ; or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room : Thou art a monument without a tomb ; And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give.
Page lvii - Tis true, and all men's suffrage. But these ways Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise ; For silliest ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right...
Page lvii - Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit, As, since, she will vouchsafe no other wit. The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please; But antiquated and deserted lie, As they were not of Nature's family.
Page xxix - The Tragedie of King Richard the Second : with new additions of the Parliament Sceane, and the deposing of King Richard.
Page 117 - Falstaffe, and swaggering Pistoll. As it hath been sundrie times publikely acted by the right honourable, the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants. Written by William Shakespeare.
Page 26 - 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 lvii - Shakespeare, must enjoy a part; For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion; and that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, Such as thine are, and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Page 125 - By William Shake-speare. As it hath beene diuerse times acted by his Highnesse seruants in the Cittie of London : as also in the two Vniuersities of Cambridge and Oxford, and else-where — At London — printed for NL and lohn Trundell.