The Shakespeare-Bacon Controversy: A Report of the Trial of an Issue in Westminster Hall, June 20, 1627 |
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... fact stated therein . Counsel read from the chapter of the excellence of the English Tongue , p . 43.- " Whatsoever grace any other language carrieth in Verse or Prose , in Tropes or Metaphors , in Echoes or Agnominations , they may all ...
... fact stated therein . Counsel read from the chapter of the excellence of the English Tongue , p . 43.- " Whatsoever grace any other language carrieth in Verse or Prose , in Tropes or Metaphors , in Echoes or Agnominations , they may all ...
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... fact , or may well have been , the control of Bacon . " In support of any one of these statements , Mr. Bompas cannot adduce a particle of evidence . Although born , I believe , in the last century , Mr. Bompas writes , as if he were ...
... fact , or may well have been , the control of Bacon . " In support of any one of these statements , Mr. Bompas cannot adduce a particle of evidence . Although born , I believe , in the last century , Mr. Bompas writes , as if he were ...
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... fact , " Mr. Jonson . In the folio , the word is often mentioned and invariably means ' deed . ' Thus , " I say the truth , the fact was infamous . " This is quite a classical style , you know , and you can find its use in Bacon's ...
... fact , " Mr. Jonson . In the folio , the word is often mentioned and invariably means ' deed . ' Thus , " I say the truth , the fact was infamous . " This is quite a classical style , you know , and you can find its use in Bacon's ...
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... fact " used with the same meaning in John Rainolds ' " Lectures on Obadiah , " 1584 , and in King's " Lectures on Jonah , " delivered in 1594. The word " fact , " meaning deed , was in common use . Take " merely , " used thus in ...
... fact " used with the same meaning in John Rainolds ' " Lectures on Obadiah , " 1584 , and in King's " Lectures on Jonah , " delivered in 1594. The word " fact , " meaning deed , was in common use . Take " merely , " used thus in ...
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... fact in natural history , that Turkey cocks swell greatly when angered ? Well , if we cannot say , " There goes a man with swelling pride , ' without getting it from Lord Bacon's Turkey cock , we have come to a pretty pass . I do not ...
... fact in natural history , that Turkey cocks swell greatly when angered ? Well , if we cannot say , " There goes a man with swelling pride , ' without getting it from Lord Bacon's Turkey cock , we have come to a pretty pass . I do not ...
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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.