Shakspeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet, Criticisms on His Genius and Writings, a New Chronology of His Plays, a Disquisition on the Object of His Sonnets, and a History of the Manners, Customs, Amusements, Superstitions, Poetry, and Elegant Literature of His AgeBaudry's European Library, 1838 - 660 pages |
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... Steevens , as a proof of it , has furnished us with the following entry from the fifth Earl of Northumberland's Household Book , which was begun in the year 1512 : - " Rewards to Players . " Item , to be payd to the said Richard Gowge ...
... Steevens , as a proof of it , has furnished us with the following entry from the fifth Earl of Northumberland's Household Book , which was begun in the year 1512 : - " Rewards to Players . " Item , to be payd to the said Richard Gowge ...
Page 122
... Steevens supports the opinion of Pope by asserting , that " At the period when this comedy ( Taming of a Shrew ) was written , and for many years after , the profession of a player was scarcely allowed to be reputable . The imagined ...
... Steevens supports the opinion of Pope by asserting , that " At the period when this comedy ( Taming of a Shrew ) was written , and for many years after , the profession of a player was scarcely allowed to be reputable . The imagined ...
Page 377
... Steevens . All these gentlemen concur in believing , that more than one hundred of our author's sonnets are addressed to a male object . Dr. Farmer , influenced by the initials in the dedication , supposes , that Mr. William Harte , the ...
... Steevens . All these gentlemen concur in believing , that more than one hundred of our author's sonnets are addressed to a male object . Dr. Farmer , influenced by the initials in the dedication , supposes , that Mr. William Harte , the ...
Page 388
... Steevens , who , in an Advertisement prefixed to the edition of our author's Dramas , in 1793 , has made the following curious declaration : - " We have not reprinted the Sonnets , etc. , of Shakspeare , because the strongest act of ...
... Steevens , who , in an Advertisement prefixed to the edition of our author's Dramas , in 1793 , has made the following curious declaration : - " We have not reprinted the Sonnets , etc. , of Shakspeare , because the strongest act of ...
Page 447
... Steevens contending , that where so much machinery as the plays of Shakspeare require , is allowed to have been employed , the less complicated adjunct of scenes could scarcely be wanting ; for that where " the column is found standing ...
... Steevens contending , that where so much machinery as the plays of Shakspeare require , is allowed to have been employed , the less complicated adjunct of scenes could scarcely be wanting ; for that where " the column is found standing ...
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Page 189 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 607 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page 372 - O, then vouchsafe me but this loving thought: 'Had my friend's Muse grown with this growing age, A dearer birth than this his love had brought, To march in ranks of better equipage: But since he died, and poets better prove, Theirs for their style I'll read, his for his love.
Page 139 - Sparta: never did I hear Such gallant chiding; for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
Page 385 - When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, And summer's green all girded up in sheaves, Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard; Then of thy beauty do I question make, That thou among the wastes of time must go...
Page 580 - And so I was, which plainly signified That I should snarl, and bite, and play the dog. Then, since the heavens have shap'd my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word 'love,' which greybeards call divine, Be resident in men like one another, And not in me!
Page 506 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the Fairy Queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours.
Page 386 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Page 193 - Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Page 200 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire, for some time, and shelter himself in London.