The Shakespeare-Bacon Controversy: A Report of the Trial of an Issue in Westminster Hall, June 20, 1627 |
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... heard of this matter , might think that a question , founded on it , ought to be put . The story came in the following way . D'Avenant heard it from some one . D'Avenant told it to Betterton , Betterton told it to Rowe , Rowe told it to ...
... heard of this matter , might think that a question , founded on it , ought to be put . The story came in the following way . D'Avenant heard it from some one . D'Avenant told it to Betterton , Betterton told it to Rowe , Rowe told it to ...
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... heard that- " Do not tell us what you have heard , sir , " said the the Counsel for the defendant . I was only going to say I believe he died in 1616 . Some time in the early part of the year 1622 , Mr. Heminge and Mr. Condell called ...
... heard that- " Do not tell us what you have heard , sir , " said the the Counsel for the defendant . I was only going to say I believe he died in 1616 . Some time in the early part of the year 1622 , Mr. Heminge and Mr. Condell called ...
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... heard that he did . He no more held horses , sir , than you have held asses . ( Loud laughter . ) Be respectful , sir , said the Counsel . I am sorry if I spoke hastily , my lord , but ( turning to Counsel ) you provoked me . Mr ...
... heard that he did . He no more held horses , sir , than you have held asses . ( Loud laughter . ) Be respectful , sir , said the Counsel . I am sorry if I spoke hastily , my lord , but ( turning to Counsel ) you provoked me . Mr ...
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... heard in the Hall . " We noticed , " says the reporter , " that Mr. Jonson never smiled . He seemed deeply moved , and exclaimed , ' What next ? And next ? On the return of the Judge , the laughter had not quite subsided , and the usher ...
... heard in the Hall . " We noticed , " says the reporter , " that Mr. Jonson never smiled . He seemed deeply moved , and exclaimed , ' What next ? And next ? On the return of the Judge , the laughter had not quite subsided , and the usher ...
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... heard a doubt cast upon the authorship of Shakespeare . Did you never have any communication from Lord Bacon in respect of the publishing the folio volume ? Never . I never received a paper of any kind from him , nor did I communicate ...
... heard a doubt cast upon the authorship of Shakespeare . Did you never have any communication from Lord Bacon in respect of the publishing the folio volume ? Never . I never received a paper of any kind from him , nor did I communicate ...
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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.