William Shakespeare not an imposter, by an English critic [G.H. Townsend].G. Routledge & Company, 1857 - 122 pages |
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... BEQUEATHED BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TO ALL POSTERITY , THIS VINDICATION OF THE CHARACTER OF THE MAN AND OF THE FAME OF THE POET IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED , BY THE AUTHOR . PREFACE . THE Author has endeavoured to collect within the.
... BEQUEATHED BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TO ALL POSTERITY , THIS VINDICATION OF THE CHARACTER OF THE MAN AND OF THE FAME OF THE POET IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED , BY THE AUTHOR . PREFACE . THE Author has endeavoured to collect within the.
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... poet's contempora- ries , by which the claim of William Shakespeare to the authorship of the six - and - thirty plays , published in the folio edition of 1623 , is clearly established . His title is confirmed by such a mass of evidence ...
... poet's contempora- ries , by which the claim of William Shakespeare to the authorship of the six - and - thirty plays , published in the folio edition of 1623 , is clearly established . His title is confirmed by such a mass of evidence ...
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... a fairer idea of his extraordinary superiority over all other poets , ancient as well as modern , the author will not have written in vain . LONDON , January 26th , 1857 . lliam idea oets , have " TRUTH may perhaps come vi PREFACE .
... a fairer idea of his extraordinary superiority over all other poets , ancient as well as modern , the author will not have written in vain . LONDON , January 26th , 1857 . lliam idea oets , have " TRUTH may perhaps come vi PREFACE .
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... poet , whom , of all others , they admire and respect , is no poet at all , and that for two centuries , students and commentators have been groping in the dark , and erecting a monument to a man who practised one of the vilest ...
... poet , whom , of all others , they admire and respect , is no poet at all , and that for two centuries , students and commentators have been groping in the dark , and erecting a monument to a man who practised one of the vilest ...
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... Poet is tempted to relieve his pictures of war and tumult by some exquisite glimpse of domestic tenderness , or- -heated by a self - kindled flame of which those doctors have no more notion than Chesel- den's patient had of scarlet ...
... Poet is tempted to relieve his pictures of war and tumult by some exquisite glimpse of domestic tenderness , or- -heated by a self - kindled flame of which those doctors have no more notion than Chesel- den's patient had of scarlet ...
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Page 107 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped.
Page 1 - Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights.
Page 79 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 96 - ... ordain'd otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envie his friends the office of their care and paine...
Page 106 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
Page 56 - Have gloz^d, but superficially ; not much Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought Unfit to hear moral philosophy. The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of...
Page 100 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appeare, And make those flights upon the bankes of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James\ But stay, I see thee in the Hemisphere Advanc'd, and made a Constellation there! Shine forth, thou Starre of Poets, and with rage, Or influence, chide, or cheere the drooping Stage; Which, since thy flight from hence, hath mourn'd like night, And despaires day, but for thy Volumes light.
Page 70 - The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutored lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I have done is yours, what I have to do is yours ; being part in all I have, devoted yours. Were my worth greater my duty would show greater : meantime, as it is, it is bound to your Lordship, to whom I wish long life, still lengthened with all happiness. Your Lordship's in all duty, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
Page 99 - Yet must I not give nature all ; thy art, My gentle SHAKESPEARE, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion : and, that he 278 Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Page 99 - Accius, him of Cordova dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread, And shake a stage; or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.