Shakspeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet, Criticisms on His Genius and Writings, a New Chronology of His Plays, a Disquisition on the Object of His Sonnets, and a History of the Manners, Customs, Amusements, Superstitions, Poetry, and Elegant Literature of His Age |
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... nature . Scanty as they must be pronounced , they lead to the conclusion that he was a moral and industrious man ; that when fortune fa- voured him , he was not indolent , but performed the duties of a magistrate with respectability and ...
... nature . Scanty as they must be pronounced , they lead to the conclusion that he was a moral and industrious man ; that when fortune fa- voured him , he was not indolent , but performed the duties of a magistrate with respectability and ...
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... nature itself was all the art which was used upon him . ' 6 66 Notwithstanding this uniform assertion of the contemporaries and immediate successors of Shakspeare , relative to his very imperfect knowledge of the lan- guages of Greece ...
... nature itself was all the art which was used upon him . ' 6 66 Notwithstanding this uniform assertion of the contemporaries and immediate successors of Shakspeare , relative to his very imperfect knowledge of the lan- guages of Greece ...
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... nature . " Holes were there also and caverns in orderly distance and fashion , voided into the wall , as well for ... natural melodious musick and tunes of birds : to have in eye , for mirth , some time these under springing streams ...
... nature . " Holes were there also and caverns in orderly distance and fashion , voided into the wall , as well for ... natural melodious musick and tunes of birds : to have in eye , for mirth , some time these under springing streams ...
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... nature to commemorate ; that the scenery which occurred to him early in life , and especially at this period , when the ima- gery drawn from nature must have been impressed on his mind in a manner peculiarly vivid and defined , when he ...
... nature to commemorate ; that the scenery which occurred to him early in life , and especially at this period , when the ima- gery drawn from nature must have been impressed on his mind in a manner peculiarly vivid and defined , when he ...
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... nature of the provision , the wine frequently circula- ting only above the saltcellar , and the dishes below it being of a coarser kind than those near the head of the table . So prevalent was this uncourteous dis- tinction , that ...
... nature of the provision , the wine frequently circula- ting only above the saltcellar , and the dishes below it being of a coarser kind than those near the head of the table . So prevalent was this uncourteous dis- tinction , that ...
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Page 189 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 547 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page 372 - O, then vouchsafe me but this loving thought: 'Had my friend's Muse grown with this growing age, A dearer birth than this his love had brought, To march in ranks of better equipage: But since he died, and poets better prove, Theirs for their style I'll read, his for his love.
Page 139 - Sparta: never did I hear Such gallant chiding; for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
Page 385 - When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, And summer's green all girded up in sheaves, Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard; Then of thy beauty do I question make, That thou among the wastes of time must go...
Page 520 - And so I was, which plainly signified That I should snarl, and bite, and play the dog. Then, since the heavens have shap'd my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word 'love,' which greybeards call divine, Be resident in men like one another, And not in me!
Page 506 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the Fairy Queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours.
Page 386 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Page 193 - Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Page 200 - 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 obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire, for some time, and shelter himself in London.