Shakespeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet; Criticism on His Genius and Writings; a New Chronology of His Plays; a Disquisition on the Object of His Sonnets; and a History of the Manners, Customs, Amusement, Superstitions, Poetry, and Elegant Literature of His Age, Volume 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1817 - Dramatists, English |
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... production , we shall subjoin the opinion of S. Sheppard , who , in " The Times Dis- played in Six Sestyads , " printed in 1646 , 4to . , comparing Shakspeare with Euripides , Sophocles , and Aristophanes , adds- " His sweet and his to ...
... production , we shall subjoin the opinion of S. Sheppard , who , in " The Times Dis- played in Six Sestyads , " printed in 1646 , 4to . , comparing Shakspeare with Euripides , Sophocles , and Aristophanes , adds- " His sweet and his to ...
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... production of his muse , but was prevented by death from completing his scheme ; for he died in the same year in which this corrected copy of Lucrece ( as it is called ) was printed . But on an attentive exami- nation of this edition ...
... production of his muse , but was prevented by death from completing his scheme ; for he died in the same year in which this corrected copy of Lucrece ( as it is called ) was printed . But on an attentive exami- nation of this edition ...
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... productions . So far from any permission being given by Shakspeare for the in- sertion of these translations , we find him highly offended with Jaggard for presuming to introduce them under his name ; and from the admis- sion of these ...
... productions . So far from any permission being given by Shakspeare for the in- sertion of these translations , we find him highly offended with Jaggard for presuming to introduce them under his name ; and from the admis- sion of these ...
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... productions anterior to 1609 . These inaccuracies in the charge and defence of Shakspeare , the detection of which has proved an unpleasant task , and peculiarly so when we reflect , that to one of the parties and to his family † the ...
... productions anterior to 1609 . These inaccuracies in the charge and defence of Shakspeare , the detection of which has proved an unpleasant task , and peculiarly so when we reflect , that to one of the parties and to his family † the ...
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... productions , in the same department , of his accomplished friend , the gallant but unfortunate Surrey . The sonnets of this elegantly romantic cha- racter , which were published in 1557 , deviate still further from the Italian ...
... productions , in the same department , of his accomplished friend , the gallant but unfortunate Surrey . The sonnets of this elegantly romantic cha- racter , which were published in 1557 , deviate still further from the Italian ...
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Page 151 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 515 - Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell Burthen Ding-dong Hark!
Page 447 - Claudio ; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 369 - Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king?
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Page 79 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no ! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
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Page 79 - The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour, which doth in it live. The canker blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses.
Page 84 - gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow, Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow; And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand, Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.
Page 492 - Even here undone ! I was not much afeard ; for once or twice I was about to speak and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun that shines upon his court Hides not his visage from our cottage but Looks on alike.