Introduction to ShakespeareBlackie & Son, 1893 - 136 páginas |
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... speare's life than of the lives of many of his dramatic contemporaries . Far less has been ascertained respecting the life of Marlowe , whose fame stood so high in Elizabethan days , and whose personality was undoubtedly a striking one ...
... speare's life than of the lives of many of his dramatic contemporaries . Far less has been ascertained respecting the life of Marlowe , whose fame stood so high in Elizabethan days , and whose personality was undoubtedly a striking one ...
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... speare's frequent and exact use of law terms that most probably he was for two or three years in the office of a Stratford attorney . We may indulge our imagination by picturing the future poet rather as a wool - stapler than as a ...
... speare's frequent and exact use of law terms that most probably he was for two or three years in the office of a Stratford attorney . We may indulge our imagination by picturing the future poet rather as a wool - stapler than as a ...
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... intellectual fascination of a woman who possessed all those qualities of brilliance and cultured grace which perhaps were lacking in his wife ; but if so , Shake- ( 789 ) B We speare perceived his error , and in due time.
... intellectual fascination of a woman who possessed all those qualities of brilliance and cultured grace which perhaps were lacking in his wife ; but if so , Shake- ( 789 ) B We speare perceived his error , and in due time.
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... speare's marriage as a rare union of perfect accord , but we are not justified in speaking of it as unfor- tunate . In A Midsummer Night's Dream Lysander has a reference to love " misgraffed in respect of years " ; in Twelfth Night the ...
... speare's marriage as a rare union of perfect accord , but we are not justified in speaking of it as unfor- tunate . In A Midsummer Night's Dream Lysander has a reference to love " misgraffed in respect of years " ; in Twelfth Night the ...
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... speare continued to reside at Stratford , and in 1585 his wife gave birth to twins , a boy and girl , baptized ( Feb. 2 ) Hamnet and Judith , doubtless after Hamnet Sadler , a baker of Stratford , and Judith his wife . > For this Hamnet ...
... speare continued to reside at Stratford , and in 1585 his wife gave birth to twins , a boy and girl , baptized ( Feb. 2 ) Hamnet and Judith , doubtless after Hamnet Sadler , a baker of Stratford , and Judith his wife . > For this Hamnet ...
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Página 64 - This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Página 10 - What years, i' faith? Vio. About your years, my lord. DUKE. Too old, by heaven : let still the woman take An elder than herself : so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart...
Página 31 - Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare, 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.
Página 19 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Página 136 - The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster...
Página 132 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou are a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Página 97 - This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstacies, by reading human sentiments in human language, by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
Página 18 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers heart wrapt in a Players hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shakescene in a countrie.
Página 129 - We have but collected them, and done an office to the dead, to procure his orphans guardians; without ambition either of self-profit or fame ; only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare, by humble ofier of his plays to your most noble patronage.
Página 74 - But there seems to have been a period of Shakspeare's life when his heart was ill at ease, and ill content with the world or his own conscience ; the memory of hours misspent, the pang of affection mis-placed or unrequited, the experience of man's worser nature, which intercourse with ill-chosen...