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... Shakespeare ; he was solicitous for the credit of his native place ; and he wished that Stratford might always prove worthy of its association with the first poet of the world . He possessed large 52 A STRATFORD CHRONICLE .
... Shakespeare ; he was solicitous for the credit of his native place ; and he wished that Stratford might always prove worthy of its association with the first poet of the world . He possessed large 52 A STRATFORD CHRONICLE .
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William Winter. the first poet of the world . He possessed large wealth and he used it freely for the honour and advancement of his town . He was the founder of the Shakespeare Memo- rial : he gave the land on which it stands and also ...
William Winter. the first poet of the world . He possessed large wealth and he used it freely for the honour and advancement of his town . He was the founder of the Shakespeare Memo- rial : he gave the land on which it stands and also ...
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... possessed of the rewards of industry and thrift . At Brodie , looking across harvest fields and a low growth of firs , we see the glimmer of gray and leaden water and so catch our first glimpse of the Moray Firth . A 96 FROM EDINBURGH ...
... possessed of the rewards of industry and thrift . At Brodie , looking across harvest fields and a low growth of firs , we see the glimmer of gray and leaden water and so catch our first glimpse of the Moray Firth . A 96 FROM EDINBURGH ...
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... possessed in extraor- dinary fulness , and therefore he abun- dantly exerted , the rare faculty of taste . There can be no doubt that , as time wore on , the character of Sheridan was weakened and degraded by misfortune , embarrass- 66 ...
... possessed in extraor- dinary fulness , and therefore he abun- dantly exerted , the rare faculty of taste . There can be no doubt that , as time wore on , the character of Sheridan was weakened and degraded by misfortune , embarrass- 66 ...
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... possessed the sense of proportion and fitness , an old - time courtliness of thinking as well as of man- ner , a sense of the right place for trifles , and a happy faculty for silence . He was - not envious and he was not meddlesome ...
... possessed the sense of proportion and fitness , an old - time courtliness of thinking as well as of man- ner , a sense of the right place for trifles , and a happy faculty for silence . He was - not envious and he was not meddlesome ...
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Seite 180 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, — past the wit of man to say what dream it was: — Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.
Seite 221 - Give me my robe, put on my crown ; I have Immortal longings in me : Now no more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip: — Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. — Methinks, I hear Antony call; I see him rouse himself To praise my noble act; I hear him mock The luck of...
Seite 35 - And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the Lord came, saying, Israel shall be thy name : and with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord : and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
Seite 218 - O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n : young boys and girls Are level now with men ; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.
Seite 190 - A | Pleasant | Conceited Comedie | called, | Loues labors, lost. | As it was presented before her Highnes | this last Christmas. | Newly corrected and augmented | By W. Shakespere.
Seite 219 - Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the ranged empire fall ! Here is my space. Kingdoms are clay : our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man: the nobleness of life Is to do thus ; when such a mutual pair [Embracing. And such a twain can do't, in which I bind, On pain of punishment, the world to weet We stand up peerless.
Seite 197 - Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his private friends, &c. — 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...
Seite 180 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
Seite 253 - Dear Bob, — I have not anything to leave thee, to perpetuate my memory, but two helpless girls ; look upon them, sometimes ; and think of him that was, to the last moment of his life, thine, — GEORGE FARQUHAR.
Seite 193 - For a young author's first work almost always bespeaks his recent pursuits, and his first observations of life are either drawn from the immediate employments of his youth, and from the characters and images most deeply impressed on his mind in the situations in which those employments had...