Memoirs of the Life of William Shakespeare: With an Essay Toward the Expression of His Genius, and an Account of the Rise and Progress of the English DramaLittle, Brown,, 1865 - 425 páginas |
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... seem that we should be able to discover , our knowledge is , as knowledge often is , only the narrow boundary which marks the limit of a wide waste of ignorance . We do not know positively the date of Shakespeare's birth , or the house ...
... seem that we should be able to discover , our knowledge is , as knowledge often is , only the narrow boundary which marks the limit of a wide waste of ignorance . We do not know positively the date of Shakespeare's birth , or the house ...
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... seems to have been the favorite haunt , if it were not the ances- tral soil , of a family whose name more than any other in our tongue sounds of battle and tells of knightly origin . It is possible , indeed , that Shake- speare is a ...
... seems to have been the favorite haunt , if it were not the ances- tral soil , of a family whose name more than any other in our tongue sounds of battle and tells of knightly origin . It is possible , indeed , that Shake- speare is a ...
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... seem never to have risen to the rank of heraldic gentry , or to have es- tablished themselves firmly among the landhold- ers ... seems , therefore , to be no good reason for deviating from the orthog- raphy to which Shakespeare and his ...
... seem never to have risen to the rank of heraldic gentry , or to have es- tablished themselves firmly among the landhold- ers ... seems , therefore , to be no good reason for deviating from the orthog- raphy to which Shakespeare and his ...
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... seems to have been living in 1527 ; but these trifling distinctions are the highest which have been discovered in connection with the name . Little need we care , however , what was the condition of those Shakespeares who were moul ...
... seems to have been living in 1527 ; but these trifling distinctions are the highest which have been discovered in connection with the name . Little need we care , however , what was the condition of those Shakespeares who were moul ...
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... seems to have been her father's favorite , John Shakespeare won to look on him with liking ; and so he married into the landlord's family , and allied his blood to that of the Ardens , with their high old English * Dugdale's Antiquities ...
... seems to have been her father's favorite , John Shakespeare won to look on him with liking ; and so he married into the landlord's family , and allied his blood to that of the Ardens , with their high old English * Dugdale's Antiquities ...
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actor Æschylus Anne Hathaway appears Arden audience Ben Jonson Black-friars blank verse called century character Collier comedy contemporaries Coriolanus critics death devyll doth dramatic dramatist Elizabethan era England English drama evidence fact fancy father Feronimo genius gentleman Gorboduc Greek Hamlet hand hath Henley Street Henry the Sixth honor John Shakespeare Jonson King Henry King Lear labor language Latin letter literary literature lived London Lord Marlowe ment mind miracle-plays moral moral-play nature Othello passage performance period personages phrase players plays playwright poet poetry Porrex Queen reader reason record regard Richard Robert Arden rude says scene seems Shake shows Sir Thomas soul Spanish Tragedy speak speare speare's speech stage story Stratford style sure tells theatre Thomas Lucy thou thought tion Tom Tyler tradition truth Warwickshire wife William Shakespeare words writing written wrote
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Página 86 - Is not this the carpenter's son ? is not his mother called Mary ? and his brethren James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas, and his sisters, are they not all with us ? Whence then hath this man all these things ? And they were offended in him.
Página 207 - The moon shines bright.— In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise, — in such a night, Troilus methinks mounted the Trojan walls, And sighed his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressida lay that night
Página 290 - I think the king is but a man, as I am ; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me ; all his senses have but human conditions ; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man.
Página 49 - So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are. Vio. I think it well, my lord. Duke. Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent
Página 250 - sixty-fourth sonnet, an important geological fact serves him for illustration : — " When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store " Where and how and why had Shakespeare
Página 64 - vouchers, his recoveries. Is this the fine of his fines, and the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt ? Will his vouchers vouch him no more of his purchases, and double ones, too, than the length and breadth of a pair of indentures
Página 389 - of the other, and so many other under-kingdoms, that the Player, when he comes in, must ever begin with telling where he is, or else the tale will not be conceived. Now you shall have three ladies walke to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we
Página 389 - shipwrack in the same place ; then, we are to blame if we accept it not for a rocke. Upon the backe of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave ; while, in the meantime, two armies
Página 123 - by, wherein he most faulted. And to justifie mine own candor, (for I lov'd the man, and doe honour his memory (on this side idolatry) as much as any.) Hee was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature : had an excellent
Página 83 - on The First Part of the Contention betwixt the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster, The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York, A Pleasant Conceited History of the Taming of a Shrew, Titus Andronicus, an early form of Romeo and