Shakespeare, the Man and His Works: Being All the Subject Matter about Shakespeare Contained in Moulton's Library of Literary CriticismSibley, 1904 - 366 pages |
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... Charles II . , who had sold Dunkirk to France for two hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling , and in looking at something that was a skeleton and had been Cromwell , whitening under the north - east wind and rain on the gallows at ...
... Charles II . , who had sold Dunkirk to France for two hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling , and in looking at something that was a skeleton and had been Cromwell , whitening under the north - east wind and rain on the gallows at ...
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... and Adonis " could not fall before his genius or his judgment was full - grown . SWINBURNE , ALGERNON CHARLES , 1880 , A Study of Shakespeare , p . 41 . " Venus and Adonis " brims over with poetry - 22 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE .
... and Adonis " could not fall before his genius or his judgment was full - grown . SWINBURNE , ALGERNON CHARLES , 1880 , A Study of Shakespeare , p . 41 . " Venus and Adonis " brims over with poetry - 22 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE .
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... CHARLES , 1880 , A Study of Shakespeare , p . 61 . ― The framework of " A Lover's Complaint , " its pictur- esqueness , versification , diction , repression , tenderness , and beauty , give to it a thoroughly Spenserian character , and ...
... CHARLES , 1880 , A Study of Shakespeare , p . 61 . ― The framework of " A Lover's Complaint , " its pictur- esqueness , versification , diction , repression , tenderness , and beauty , give to it a thoroughly Spenserian character , and ...
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... CHARLES , 1891 , Social Verse , The Forum , vol . 12 , p . 173 . was - ― It contains twenty - one numbers , besides that lofty dirge , so unapproachably solemn , " The Phoenix and the Tur- tle . " Of these , five are undoubtedly by ...
... CHARLES , 1891 , Social Verse , The Forum , vol . 12 , p . 173 . was - ― It contains twenty - one numbers , besides that lofty dirge , so unapproachably solemn , " The Phoenix and the Tur- tle . " Of these , five are undoubtedly by ...
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... CHARLES , 1795 , A Complete History of the Stage , vol . III , p . 31 . If it be true that genius , even in its lowest abasement , gives forth some luminous rays to betray its presence ; if Shakspeare , in particular , bore that ...
... CHARLES , 1795 , A Complete History of the Stage , vol . III , p . 31 . If it be true that genius , even in its lowest abasement , gives forth some luminous rays to betray its presence ; if Shakspeare , in particular , bore that ...
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Page 278 - 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 57 - Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Page 314 - SHAKESPEARE Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask — Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwellingplace, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the...
Page 291 - This pencil take (she said), whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy! This can unlock the gates of Joy; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Page 90 - I shall despair. — There is no creature loves me ; And, if I die, no soul will pity me : — Nay, wherefore should they ? since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself.
Page 279 - ... ordain'd otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envie his friends the office of their care and paine...
Page 278 - To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time! And all the Muses still were in their prime, When, like Apollo, he came forth to warm Our ears, or like a Mercury to charm! Nature herself was proud of his designs And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines!
Page 276 - And he, the man whom Nature selfe had made To mock her selfe, and Truth to imitate, With kindly counter under Mimick shade, Our pleasant Willy, ah ! is dead of late : With whom all joy and jolly meriment Is also deaded, and in dolour drent.
Page 207 - Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume.
Page 276 - 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, fyc.