A Life of William ShakespeareSmith, Elder, 1898 - 479 pages |
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... tion . The strictly autobiographical interpretation that critics have of late placed on these poems compelled me , as Shakespeare's biographer , to submit them to a very narrow scrutiny . My conclusion is adverse to the claim of the ...
... tion . The strictly autobiographical interpretation that critics have of late placed on these poems compelled me , as Shakespeare's biographer , to submit them to a very narrow scrutiny . My conclusion is adverse to the claim of the ...
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... tion in 1609 89 A Lover's Complaint 91 18 88 88 Main topics of the first group ' Main topics of the second ' group ' The order of the sonnets 98 99 in the edition of 1640. 100 Lack of genuine senti- ment in Elizabethan sonnets • Their ...
... tion in 1609 89 A Lover's Complaint 91 18 88 88 Main topics of the first group ' Main topics of the second ' group ' The order of the sonnets 98 99 in the edition of 1640. 100 Lack of genuine senti- ment in Elizabethan sonnets • Their ...
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... tion of books References in his letters collec- Tom Nash's addresses . 385 . 382 1595 Gervase Markham's son- net 387 • 382 1598 Florio's address 387 • 383 The congratulations of • 384 the poets in 1603 387 Elegies on Southampton 389 to ...
... tion of books References in his letters collec- Tom Nash's addresses . 385 . 382 1595 Gervase Markham's son- net 387 • 382 1598 Florio's address 387 • 383 The congratulations of • 384 the poets in 1603 387 Elegies on Southampton 389 to ...
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... tion of the berland , at Kirkland and Doncaster in name . Yorkshire , as well as in nearly all the midland counties . The surname had originally a martial significance , implying capacity in the wield- ing of the spear . Its first ...
... tion of the berland , at Kirkland and Doncaster in name . Yorkshire , as well as in nearly all the midland counties . The surname had originally a martial significance , implying capacity in the wield- ing of the spear . Its first ...
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... tion ; several extant documents bear her mark , and there is no proof that she could sign her name . John Shakespeare's marriage with Mary Arden doubtless took place at Aston Cantlowe , the parish church of Wilmcote , in the autumn of ...
... tion ; several extant documents bear her mark , and there is no proof that she could sign her name . John Shakespeare's marriage with Mary Arden doubtless took place at Aston Cantlowe , the parish church of Wilmcote , in the autumn of ...
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Page 321 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What needst thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 56 - 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.
Page 174 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare with the English man-ofwar, 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 114 - Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room. Even in the eyes of all posterity That wear this world out to the ending doom.
Page 324 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 55 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 127 - 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 55 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot (the terror of the French) to thinke that after he had lyne two hundred yeares in his Tombe, hee should triumphe againe on the Stage, and have his bones newe embalmed with the teares of ten thousand spectators at least (at severall times), who, in the Tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding.
Page 125 - The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutor'd 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 255 - True/ representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry VIII., which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage; the knights of the order with their Georges and garters, the guards with their embroidered coats, and the like ; sufficient, in truth, within a while, to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous.