Stratford as Connected with Shakespeare: And the Bard's Rural HauntsE. Adams, 1854 - 66 páginas |
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Stratford as Connected with Shakespeare: And the Bard's Rural Haunts Edwin Lees Visualização integral - 1854 |
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aisle altar ancient Anne Hathaway appears Asbies Avon banks bard BARD'S RURAL HAUNTS beams beautiful Bishop of Worcester BOTANICAL LOOKER-OUT bust chancel Charlecote charnel house chimney clerestory colours CONNECTED WITH SHAKESPEARE daughter deer deer-stealing doubtless dramatist Edward VI Elizabethan fire-place flowers ford garden Garrick Grammar School Guild Chapel hairy fool Hall Halliwell says Halliwell's hamlet hath HAUNTS OF SHAKESPEARE Henley-street Henry VII Holy Trinity Ilmington imagination inscription John Shakespeare Knight lofty look luce Luddington mansion marriage monument Mulberry nave oxlips parish perhaps pilgrim players plays poet present probably purchased reign of Henry remains resided river Robert de Stratford roof scene scenery Shake Shakespeare's father Shottery side Sir Hugh Clopton Sir Thomas Lucy speare spire stone Strat Stratford Church Stratford-upon-Avon Susanna tenements thatched thought timber tion TOMB OF SHAKESPEARE tower town transept tree vernal wall Warwickshire Weir Brake wife William Shakespeare willow wood youthful
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Página 16 - ... t were, the mirror up to Nature ; to show virtue her own feature ; scorn, her own image ; and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure. Now, this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Página 16 - Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Página 62 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree that he was...
Página 32 - Triumph, my Britain! Thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time...
Página 44 - There is a willow grows ascaunt the brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream ; Therewith fantastick garlands did she make Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples§, That liberal || shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them...
Página 61 - Upon his leaving school, he seems to have given entirely into that way of living which his father -proposed to him; and in order to settle in the world after a ..family manner, he thought fit to marry while he was yet very young.
Página 61 - In this kind of settlement he continued for some time, till an extravagance that he was guilty of, forced him both out of his country, and that way of living which he had taken up : and though it seemed at first to be a blemish upon his good manners, and a misfortune...
Página 16 - I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions ; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Página 62 - ... GREAT MAINTAINER OF HOSPITALITY ; GREATLY ESTEEMED OF HER BETTERS ; MISLIKED OF NONE UNLESS OF THE ENVIOUS. WHEN ALL IS SPOKEN THAT CAN BE SAID, A WOMAN SO FURNISHED AND GARNISHED WITH VIRTUE, AS NOT TO BE BETTERED, AND HARDLY TO BE EQUALLED BY ANY. AS SHE LIVED MOST VIRTUOUSLY, SO SHE DYED MOST GODLY. SET DOWN BY HIM THAT BEST DID KNOW WHAT HATH BEEN WRITTEN TO BE TRUE. THOMAS LUCY.
Página 19 - Howie, — came, on Shakespeare's death, to Mrs. Hall, and, on her decease, to her only child, Elizabeth Nash, afterwards Lady Barnard. In this mansion, while it belonged to Mr.