The Rural Life of Shakespeare, as Illustrated by His WorksBell, 1874 - 68 páginas |
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... present occasion : His foes are so enrooted with his friends , That , plucking to unfix an enemy , He doth unfasten so , and shake a friend . King Henry IV , Part 2 , Act iv , Scene 1 . And nothing teems But hateful docks , rough ...
... present occasion : His foes are so enrooted with his friends , That , plucking to unfix an enemy , He doth unfasten so , and shake a friend . King Henry IV , Part 2 , Act iv , Scene 1 . And nothing teems But hateful docks , rough ...
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... present day . She objects to it because , being a cross be- * Mr. W. O. Hunt , of Stratford - on - Avon , to whom I applied , writes : " The flower understood here as the gilliflower is the common wallflower , of the genus cheiranthus ...
... present day . She objects to it because , being a cross be- * Mr. W. O. Hunt , of Stratford - on - Avon , to whom I applied , writes : " The flower understood here as the gilliflower is the common wallflower , of the genus cheiranthus ...
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... present day the meadows form an important feature in the scenery . The " lady - smock " is said to take its name from the resemblance of its pendulous white flowers to little smocks hung out to dry , * " when maidens bleach their sum ...
... present day the meadows form an important feature in the scenery . The " lady - smock " is said to take its name from the resemblance of its pendulous white flowers to little smocks hung out to dry , * " when maidens bleach their sum ...
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... to rural life , the force of which consists in their vivid and life - like character , in their infinity , and in their diffusion throughout his entire works . Up to the present time , no letters , no THE RURAL LIFE OF SHAKESPEARE . 61.
... to rural life , the force of which consists in their vivid and life - like character , in their infinity , and in their diffusion throughout his entire works . Up to the present time , no letters , no THE RURAL LIFE OF SHAKESPEARE . 61.
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... present , our inquiries to England , it can , I think , be tolerably well proved from his writings that he had visited Kent . The description he has given of the cliffs near Dover is so true and so complete that it is almost impossible ...
... present , our inquiries to England , it can , I think , be tolerably well proved from his writings that he had visited Kent . The description he has given of the cliffs near Dover is so true and so complete that it is almost impossible ...
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allusions Antiquities of Richborough Antony and Cleopatra Author of Collectanea bait bark bear birds canker Chalmers Collectanea Antiqua Coriolanus corn Cotswold dialect cuckoo Cymbeline Davy dogs doth farm flowers garden gillyflower graft greyhound grow Hamlet hare hath Henry VI herbs horse hounds hunting Idem Illustrations of Roman Kent King Henry IV King Lear King Richard knowledge lapwing lord Love's Labour's Lost Lymne Macbeth Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice Merry Wives Midsummer-Night's Dream nature nest o'er passages Perdita Polixenes poor Reculver Remarks on Shakespeare ROACH SMITH Rochester Roman London Romeo and Juliet root rural says Scarcity of Home-Grown Scene SECOND EDITION seeds Shakespeare Shallow Shrew simile Six copies sport spring Stratford-upon-Avon Strood SUBSCRIBER'S COPY summer Taming tarry Tempest thee thou Tranio tree Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night weeds wild winter Winter's Tale Wives of Windsor word youth
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Página i - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners : so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce ; set hyssop, and weed up thyme ; supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many ; either to have it steril with idleness, or manured with industry, — why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Página 33 - Setting endeavour in continual motion ; To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, Obedience : for so work the honey bees ; Creatures, that, by a rule in nature, teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
Página 14 - When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds, of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight ; The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he :Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo...
Página 43 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams...
Página 2 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean; so over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Página 52 - Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles: halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade!
Página 2 - Here's flowers for you: Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram ; The marigold, that goes to bed with the sun, And with him rises, weeping; these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age.
Página 40 - This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. BANQUO. This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here.
Página 35 - To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery ? O, yes it doth ; a thousand-fold it doth. And to conclude, — the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, Is far beyond a prince's delicates, His viands sparkling in a golden cup, • His body couched in a curious bed, When care, mistrust, and treason wait on him.
Página 34 - O God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain : To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point...