The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies, Volumes 5-8C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... master of much wealth , nor rise higher than to those small dignities ( though glorious in title ) of chief cupbearer of England and chamberlain of the Exchequer ; and this because he acted in favour of Leicester against Cecil , whose ...
... master of much wealth , nor rise higher than to those small dignities ( though glorious in title ) of chief cupbearer of England and chamberlain of the Exchequer ; and this because he acted in favour of Leicester against Cecil , whose ...
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... master to London . " His father was a butcher , says Aubrey ; he was apprenticed to a butcher , says the parish clerk . Akin to the butcher's trade is that of the dealer in wool . It is upon the authority of Betterton , the actor , who ...
... master to London . " His father was a butcher , says Aubrey ; he was apprenticed to a butcher , says the parish clerk . Akin to the butcher's trade is that of the dealer in wool . It is upon the authority of Betterton , the actor , who ...
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... master of the grammar - school at Strat- ford , in an extract which he made from the Register of Shakspere's baptism ... Master John Shakspere , baptized on the 28th of September . In 1574 another son was bap- tized , -Richard , son of ...
... master of the grammar - school at Strat- ford , in an extract which he made from the Register of Shakspere's baptism ... Master John Shakspere , baptized on the 28th of September . In 1574 another son was bap- tized , -Richard , son of ...
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... Master John Shakspere was Mary Arden ; for in proceedings in Chancery in 1597 it is set forth that John Shakspere and his wife Mary , in the 20th Elizabeth , 1577 , mort- gaged her inheritance of Asbies . Nor can there be a doubt that ...
... Master John Shakspere was Mary Arden ; for in proceedings in Chancery in 1597 it is set forth that John Shakspere and his wife Mary , in the 20th Elizabeth , 1577 , mort- gaged her inheritance of Asbies . Nor can there be a doubt that ...
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... Master John Shakspere ; and as- suredly the worthy curate of the neighbouring village of Luddington , Thomas Hunt , who was also the school- master , would have received his new scholar with some kindness . As his " shining morning face ...
... Master John Shakspere ; and as- suredly the worthy curate of the neighbouring village of Luddington , Thomas Hunt , who was also the school- master , would have received his new scholar with some kindness . As his " shining morning face ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration afterwards Andrew Marvell appears appointed April army Bacon Ben Jonson Bishop Blake born brother brought Buckingham called Camden chancellor character Charles church Clarendon College court Cromwell crown daughter death died doubt Duke Duke of York Earl Elizabeth England English Essex father favour favourite Fuller Hampden hath Henry Henry VIII Heylin Hobbes honour House of Commons House of Lords Hudibras Hyde John Shakspere Jonson king king's Lady Latin Laud learning letter lived London Long Parliament Lord lord chancellor majesty marriage married Marvell master ment Milton mind never Oliver Cromwell Oxford parliament party person Prince principal probably published queen Raleigh reign returned royal Royalists says Selden sent sermon Shakspere's soon Stratford things Thomas thought tion took town University of Oxford Wentworth wife William Shakspere writings
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Página 19 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Página 42 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Página 52 - Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared sonnets among his private friends, etc. "As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Página 124 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Página 57 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Página 41 - It had all the evidences of an absolute Victory obtained by the Lord's blessing upon the Godly Party principally. We never charged but we routed the enemy. The Left Wing, which I commanded, being our own horse, saving a few Scots in our rear, beat all the Prince's horse. God made them as stubble to our swords.
Página 44 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and, amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlcote, near Stratford.
Página 46 - I KNOW not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your lordship, nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a...
Página 73 - Nature, the art whereby God hath made and governs the world, is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal.
Página 110 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours, but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.