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... sense . After telling him about the manuscripts , he suggested that we should unite with two others in running the risk , and finally Jaggard and I , and I. Smithweeke and W. Aspley agreed to undertake the work . We brought out the ...
... sense . After telling him about the manuscripts , he suggested that we should unite with two others in running the risk , and finally Jaggard and I , and I. Smithweeke and W. Aspley agreed to undertake the work . We brought out the ...
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... sense of the complete and last manuscripts of Shakespeare . My belief is that after correction and addition , they were re - written . To my knowledge , no one has revised or touched the manuscripts since Shakespeare's death . You ought ...
... sense of the complete and last manuscripts of Shakespeare . My belief is that after correction and addition , they were re - written . To my knowledge , no one has revised or touched the manuscripts since Shakespeare's death . You ought ...
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... sense of keeping due measure ? Yes , I remember now . You also know , do you not , that Bacon's philosophy required that in the indulgence of feeling in forming Theobald . Theobald opinion , a true measure should be observed between 43.
... sense of keeping due measure ? Yes , I remember now . You also know , do you not , that Bacon's philosophy required that in the indulgence of feeling in forming Theobald . Theobald opinion , a true measure should be observed between 43.
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... sense as that in which the word is used in the folio ? Yes , I think he does . Is it not interesting to see the poet's large Latinity ' appearing in such an unexpected form ? Not at all ; there is no appearance of Latinity in it . The ...
... sense as that in which the word is used in the folio ? Yes , I think he does . Is it not interesting to see the poet's large Latinity ' appearing in such an unexpected form ? Not at all ; there is no appearance of Latinity in it . The ...
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... sense . do you say to that ? What Yes , quite right , and used by North in his " Translation " in the same way , 1579 , used by Hooker , 1586 , and six times by Richard Sibbes , 1610-1624 , and also by Thomas Adams . I will take another ...
... sense . do you say to that ? What Yes , quite right , and used by North in his " Translation " in the same way , 1579 , used by Hooker , 1586 , and six times by Richard Sibbes , 1610-1624 , and also by Thomas Adams . I will take another ...
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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.