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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... Night's Dream . Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It Comedy of Errors · 146 59 219 138 55 Coriolanus • 225 Cymbeline · 250 し Hamlet • 149 Henry IV . Henry IV . Part I. Part II . Henry V. Henry VI . Part I. · Henry VI . Part II . Henry ...
... Night's Dream . Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It Comedy of Errors · 146 59 219 138 55 Coriolanus • 225 Cymbeline · 250 し Hamlet • 149 Henry IV . Henry IV . Part I. Part II . Henry V. Henry VI . Part I. · Henry VI . Part II . Henry ...
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... Night • • Two Gentlemen of Verona . Two Noble Kinsmen . Venus and Adonis . Winter's Tale 4. REJECTED PLAYS · 5. THE AUTHORSHIP CONTROVERSY . 6. IN GENERAL ; THE AUTHOR AND HIS WORKS 7. INDEX • PAGE . 168 105 • 125 135 178 234 82 85 70 ...
... Night • • Two Gentlemen of Verona . Two Noble Kinsmen . Venus and Adonis . Winter's Tale 4. REJECTED PLAYS · 5. THE AUTHORSHIP CONTROVERSY . 6. IN GENERAL ; THE AUTHOR AND HIS WORKS 7. INDEX • PAGE . 168 105 • 125 135 178 234 82 85 70 ...
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... Night's Dream , " 1600 ; " Merchant of Venice , " 1600 ; " Henry IV . , Pt . II . , " 1600 ; " Much Ado about Nothing , " 1600 ; " Titus Andronicus , " 1600 ; " Merry Wives of Windsor , " 1602 ; " Hamlet , " 1603 ; " King Lear , " 1608 ...
... Night's Dream , " 1600 ; " Merchant of Venice , " 1600 ; " Henry IV . , Pt . II . , " 1600 ; " Much Ado about Nothing , " 1600 ; " Titus Andronicus , " 1600 ; " Merry Wives of Windsor , " 1602 ; " Hamlet , " 1603 ; " King Lear , " 1608 ...
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... night , the discovery of the foolish youth who has fled from Love's arms to those of Death . But while none , save these , of men living had done , or could have done , such work , there was much here which whether either could have ...
... night , the discovery of the foolish youth who has fled from Love's arms to those of Death . But while none , save these , of men living had done , or could have done , such work , there was much here which whether either could have ...
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... Night , on Time , on Opportunity , as if they were theses for a degree in some academy of wit . Still the effect on a reader in the right mood is not that of frigid cleverness ; the faults are faults of youth ; the poet's pleasurable ...
... Night , on Time , on Opportunity , as if they were theses for a degree in some academy of wit . Still the effect on a reader in the right mood is not that of frigid cleverness ; the faults are faults of youth ; the poet's pleasurable ...
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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.