The Biography and Bibliography of ShakespearePriv. print., 1863 - 366 pages |
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... , and under this im- preffion fhall adopt it throughout . 1 The name is so spelt in his poems ' Venus and Adonis , ' the Rape of Lucrece , ' and his Of that particular branch of the family from which William 6 The Biography.
... , and under this im- preffion fhall adopt it throughout . 1 The name is so spelt in his poems ' Venus and Adonis , ' the Rape of Lucrece , ' and his Of that particular branch of the family from which William 6 The Biography.
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... poem , ' Venus and Ado- nis , ' Shakespeare has exhibited a more general attention to accuracy of rhythm and harmony of ... poems . He would probably take for his guide one or more of the following then popular books : - Gascoigne's ...
... poem , ' Venus and Ado- nis , ' Shakespeare has exhibited a more general attention to accuracy of rhythm and harmony of ... poems . He would probably take for his guide one or more of the following then popular books : - Gascoigne's ...
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... to these poems ( ' Rape of Lucrece , ' " & c . ) to doubt of his having acquired , when a boy , no ordinary facility in the claffical lan- guage of Rome . " " 66 99 " I always faid Shakespeare had " Latin of Shakespeare . 53.
... to these poems ( ' Rape of Lucrece , ' " & c . ) to doubt of his having acquired , when a boy , no ordinary facility in the claffical lan- guage of Rome . " " 66 99 " I always faid Shakespeare had " Latin of Shakespeare . 53.
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... Poems of Bishop Corbet , who introduces his hoft at Bofworth , defcribing the battle : - " But when he would have faid King Richard died , " And call'd a horse , a horse , he Burbage cried . " He died in 1619 , and his tombstone bears ...
... Poems of Bishop Corbet , who introduces his hoft at Bofworth , defcribing the battle : - " But when he would have faid King Richard died , " And call'd a horse , a horse , he Burbage cried . " He died in 1619 , and his tombstone bears ...
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... poem may have been writ- ten several years before its publica- tion , when Shakespeare had not achieved his great reputation , most critics think the compliment in- tended for Sir Philip Sidney , who had elsewhere , as Malone has fhewn ...
... poem may have been writ- ten several years before its publica- tion , when Shakespeare had not achieved his great reputation , most critics think the compliment in- tended for Sir Philip Sidney , who had elsewhere , as Malone has fhewn ...
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Page 328 - 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.
Page 158 - 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.
Page 307 - ... who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went together; and what he thought, he uttered with that easinesse that wee have scarse received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 312 - Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time!
Page 80 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 303 - We have but collected them, and done an office to the dead to procure his orphanes guardians; without ambition either of selfe-profit or fame, onely to keepe the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive, as was our Shakespeare, by humble offer of his playes to your most noble patronage.
Page 81 - That very time I saw (but thou could'st not), Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd...
Page 116 - Which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who chose that circumstance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted; and to justify mine own candour; for I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.
Page 110 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 310 - To draw no envy (Shakespeare) on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy booke and fame; While I confesse thy writings to be such, As neither man nor muse can praise too much, 'Tis true, and all mens suffrage.