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 |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 47
Página ix
... least . Thus the purpose of this book is to enable its reader to form as nearly as possible a full and just appreciation of Shakespeare as a man , a poet , and a dramatist . No other thought entered my mind when I laid out my work . But ...
... least . Thus the purpose of this book is to enable its reader to form as nearly as possible a full and just appreciation of Shakespeare as a man , a poet , and a dramatist . No other thought entered my mind when I laid out my work . But ...
Página xi
... least a mutual consideration , respect , and confidence heartier than that which befits the merely formal inter- course of two nations which are called friendly because they are not at open enmity . Our com- mon inheritance is one which ...
... least a mutual consideration , respect , and confidence heartier than that which befits the merely formal inter- course of two nations which are called friendly because they are not at open enmity . Our com- mon inheritance is one which ...
Página 8
... least , as the early part of the fifteenth century ; and he inherited his property there in direct succession . Two of the family had held places of some honor and respon- sibility in the household of King Henry VII . , — Sir John Arden ...
... least , as the early part of the fifteenth century ; and he inherited his property there in direct succession . Two of the family had held places of some honor and respon- sibility in the household of King Henry VII . , — Sir John Arden ...
Página 15
... least of children born that year in Stratford , who , in the eyes of their parents and of the good townsfolk , were of just as much importance , and of whose appearance in the world no other note was taken than such as tells us of his ...
... least of children born that year in Stratford , who , in the eyes of their parents and of the good townsfolk , were of just as much importance , and of whose appearance in the world no other note was taken than such as tells us of his ...
Página 31
... that the writer of that passage had surely , at least , passed through the same course before the days of expurgated classics . Jonson's phrase , " small Latin and less Greek , " has been generally taken WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE . 31.
... that the writer of that passage had surely , at least , passed through the same course before the days of expurgated classics . Jonson's phrase , " small Latin and less Greek , " has been generally taken WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE . 31.
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Memoirs of the Life of William Shakespeare: With an Essay Toward the ... Richard Grant White Visualização integral - 1865 |
Memoirs of the Life of William Shakespeare: With an Essay Toward the ... Richard Grant White Visualização integral - 1865 |
Memoirs of the Life of William Shakespeare: With an Essay Toward the ... Richard Grant White Visualização integral - 1866 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
actor Anne Hathaway appears Arden audience Ben Jonson Black-friars blank verse called century character comedy contemporaries critics death doth dramatic dramatist Earl Elizabethan era England English drama evidence fact fancy father Feronimo genius gentleman Gorboduc Hamlet hand hath Henley Street honor John Shakespeare Jonson King Henry King Lear labor language Latin Lear letter literary literature lived London Lord Marlowe master ment mind miracle-plays moral moral-play nature Othello passage performance period personages phrase players plays playwright poet poetry Porrex Queen reason regard Richard Robert Arden rude says scene seems Shake shows Sir Thomas Lucy soul Spanish Tragedy speak speare speare's speech stage story Stratford style sure tells theatre Thomas Lucy Thomas Nash thou thought tion tongue tradition truth Twelfth Night Warwickshire wife William Shakespeare words writing written wrote
Passagens conhecidas
Página 301 - fore the king, The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp That beats upon the high shore of this world, No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony, Not all these, laid in bed majestical, Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave; Who, with a body fill'd, and vacant mind, -Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread...
Página 36 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; "Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Página 300 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Página 153 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Página 87 - The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster...
Página 217 - 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 sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Página 209 - Egyptian strainers and channels, and came to him not without some tincture of the learning, or some cast of the models of those before him. The poetry of Shakspeare was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator as an instrument of nature ; and it is not so just to say that he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him.
Página 166 - His pleasurable wit, and good nature, engaged him in the acquaintance, and entitled him to the friendship of the gentlemen of the neighbourhood.
Página 90 - 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 260 - And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; 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; When I have seen such interchange of state...