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... taken upon us to ring a bell , to call other wits together , which is the meanest office . " But as , like unready servants , they stared at the bell instead of answering it , we are com- pelled to do our own errand , and reluctantly ...
... taken upon us to ring a bell , to call other wits together , which is the meanest office . " But as , like unready servants , they stared at the bell instead of answering it , we are com- pelled to do our own errand , and reluctantly ...
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... urgent circumstances , I had taken upon myself to write a few prefatory and explanatory words for my country woman's book . It was impossible to avoid some allusion to your pamphlet ; and I made such reference as seemed due.
... urgent circumstances , I had taken upon myself to write a few prefatory and explanatory words for my country woman's book . It was impossible to avoid some allusion to your pamphlet ; and I made such reference as seemed due.
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... taken the plot of one of his plays ; he follows the Greek authors , and particularly Dares Phrygius , in another ( although I will not pretend to say in what language he read them ) . The modern Italian writers of novels he was ...
... taken the plot of one of his plays ; he follows the Greek authors , and particularly Dares Phrygius , in another ( although I will not pretend to say in what language he read them ) . The modern Italian writers of novels he was ...
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... the engraver , and of the poet , alike shadow forth Bacon , or Shakespeare , indifferently . This supposition is strengthened by the fact that Bacon's portrait , taken when he was eighteen years of age 38 EVIDENCE IN FAVOUR.
... the engraver , and of the poet , alike shadow forth Bacon , or Shakespeare , indifferently . This supposition is strengthened by the fact that Bacon's portrait , taken when he was eighteen years of age 38 EVIDENCE IN FAVOUR.
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... taken when he was eighteen years of age , an engraving of which is in Basil Montagu's edi- tion of his works , is similar in form to the portrait of Shakespeare published with the folio of 1623 . It is simply a head in an oval , and has ...
... taken when he was eighteen years of age , an engraving of which is in Basil Montagu's edi- tion of his works , is similar in form to the portrait of Shakespeare published with the folio of 1623 . It is simply a head in an oval , and has ...
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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.