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... possessed to have enabled him to write these plays , we propose to quote the observations of Pope and Coleridge ; then to give a brief outline of the lives of Shake- speare and Bacon ; and then to note some of the peculiarities of the ...
... possessed to have enabled him to write these plays , we propose to quote the observations of Pope and Coleridge ; then to give a brief outline of the lives of Shake- speare and Bacon ; and then to note some of the peculiarities of the ...
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... possessed in a more emi- nent degree , or displayed in so different instances ; yet all along , there is no labour , no pains to raise them , no preparation to guide our guess to the effect , or to be perceived to lead towards it ; but ...
... possessed in a more emi- nent degree , or displayed in so different instances ; yet all along , there is no labour , no pains to raise them , no preparation to guide our guess to the effect , or to be perceived to lead towards it ; but ...
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... possessed this fa- culty , or rather it possessed him , to a morbid degree . When he abandoned himself to it without reserve , the -Wit and Poetic Faculty of Bacon Shakespeare.
... possessed this fa- culty , or rather it possessed him , to a morbid degree . When he abandoned himself to it without reserve , the -Wit and Poetic Faculty of Bacon Shakespeare.
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... possessed rather more acquaintance with the Latin language than many believe . The phrases , unintelligible and improper , except in the sense of their primitive roots , which occur so copiously in his plays , seem to be unac- countable ...
... possessed rather more acquaintance with the Latin language than many believe . The phrases , unintelligible and improper , except in the sense of their primitive roots , which occur so copiously in his plays , seem to be unac- countable ...
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... possessed many accomplishments . He was a poet , a painter * ( quære ) , and a man of gallantry . His excellent constitution required but few hours ' sleep , which he frequently took in a great chair ; and rising by break of day , he ...
... possessed many accomplishments . He was a poet , a painter * ( quære ) , and a man of gallantry . His excellent constitution required but few hours ' sleep , which he frequently took in a great chair ; and rising by break of day , he ...
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Page 27 - Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power, would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter: as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him : 'Caesar, thou dost me wrong.
Page 130 - And worse I may be yet : the worst is not So long as we can say,
Page 32 - ... and that he Who casts to write a living line must sweat (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Page 74 - King Henry, making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch...
Page 43 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely...
Page 31 - 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.
Page 26 - 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 20 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 72 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the mean time two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Page 32 - Muses' anvil, turn the same (And himself with it) that he thinks to frame, Or for the laurel he may gain a scorn, For a good poet's made as well as born; And such wert thou. Look how the father's face Lives in his issue; even so, the race Of Shakespeare's mind and manners brightly shines In his well-turned and true-filed lines, In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.