The Shakespeare-Bacon Controversy: A Report of the Trial of an Issue in Westminster Hall, June 20, 1627 |
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... reader will pardon the introduction of certain passages , which do not directly advance the hearing of the cause . The paper was prepared for reading , and it seemed to me necessary to make the trial as nearly like a real one as ...
... reader will pardon the introduction of certain passages , which do not directly advance the hearing of the cause . The paper was prepared for reading , and it seemed to me necessary to make the trial as nearly like a real one as ...
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... readers of this address must remember the year of the trial , 1627 , or they may commit the mistakes of some of my hearers , who asked me why I did not use the quotation from Greene's " A Groat's Worth of Wit , " in which a reference to ...
... readers of this address must remember the year of the trial , 1627 , or they may commit the mistakes of some of my hearers , who asked me why I did not use the quotation from Greene's " A Groat's Worth of Wit , " in which a reference to ...
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... reader . I hope I have not done any injury to the claim of Lord Bacon , when I make the Counsel state " he has no living witness he can call in support of it . " I can only say that my reading did not supply me with the name of any such ...
... reader . I hope I have not done any injury to the claim of Lord Bacon , when I make the Counsel state " he has no living witness he can call in support of it . " I can only say that my reading did not supply me with the name of any such ...
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... Readers they composed in consultation with myself . Did you not receive money from some one in order to induce you to print the folio ? I did not . I looked to the sale and the sale only to recoup myself and my co - adventurers . Re ...
... Readers they composed in consultation with myself . Did you not receive money from some one in order to induce you to print the folio ? I did not . I looked to the sale and the sale only to recoup myself and my co - adventurers . Re ...
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... Reader in the book entitled " Horae Subsecivae , " which I printed and published 1620. If you read it , I think you will see the trace of my hand in the Address to the Great Variety of Readers , printed in the folio . Have you ever had ...
... Reader in the book entitled " Horae Subsecivae , " which I printed and published 1620. If you read it , I think you will see the trace of my hand in the Address to the Great Variety of Readers , printed in the folio . Have you ever had ...
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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.