The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 3J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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Page 42
... its neighbourhood to Whitehall , where the royal theatre then was . The regular office of the Revels at that time was on St. Peter's Hill , near the Black - friars ' playhouse . Item , for heling of a seke maid , 6s 42 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT.
... its neighbourhood to Whitehall , where the royal theatre then was . The regular office of the Revels at that time was on St. Peter's Hill , near the Black - friars ' playhouse . Item , for heling of a seke maid , 6s 42 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT.
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... Blackfriars and that in Whitefriars were certainly built before 1580 ; for we learn from a puritanical pamphlet published in the last century , that soon after that year , " many goodly citizens and well disposed gentlemen of London ...
... Blackfriars and that in Whitefriars were certainly built before 1580 ; for we learn from a puritanical pamphlet published in the last century , that soon after that year , " many goodly citizens and well disposed gentlemen of London ...
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... Blackfriars , not being within the liberties of the city of London , escaped the fury of these fanaticks . Elizabeth , however , though she yielded in this instance to the frenzy of the time , was during the whole course of her reign a ...
... Blackfriars , not being within the liberties of the city of London , escaped the fury of these fanaticks . Elizabeth , however , though she yielded in this instance to the frenzy of the time , was during the whole course of her reign a ...
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... Blackfriars , that in Whitefriars , ' the Theatre , of 7 There was a theatre in Whitefriars , before the year 1580 . See p . 45. A Woman's a Weathercock was performed at the private playhouse in Whitefriars in 1012. This theatre was , I ...
... Blackfriars , that in Whitefriars , ' the Theatre , of 7 There was a theatre in Whitefriars , before the year 1580 . See p . 45. A Woman's a Weathercock was performed at the private playhouse in Whitefriars in 1012. This theatre was , I ...
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... Blackfriars , that in Whitefriars , and The Cockpit could hardly have fallen into decay in so short a period as forty years ; but I suppose was found too small for the new scenery introduced after the Restoration . The prologue to ...
... Blackfriars , that in Whitefriars , and The Cockpit could hardly have fallen into decay in so short a period as forty years ; but I suppose was found too small for the new scenery introduced after the Restoration . The prologue to ...
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Page 110 - Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air.
Page 69 - Garters, the guards with their embroidered coats, and the like— sufficient in truth within a while to make greatness very familiar if not ridiculous. Now, King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle...
Page 165 - M. William Shak-speare : HIS True Chronicle Historic of the life and death of King LEAR and his three Daughters. With the unfortunate life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Gloster, and his sullen and assumed humor of TOM of Bedlam : As it was played before the Kings Maiestie at Whitehall vpon S.
Page 217 - I loved the man and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions : wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped: Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius.
Page 224 - 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 246 - IN the name of God, Amen. I William Shakspeare, of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick, gent., in perfect health and memory (God be praised), do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following : that is to say — First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting ; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Page 74 - When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room...
Page 69 - King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain chambers being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly and ran round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood...
Page 213 - Warwick; his father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours that, when he was a boy, he exercised his father's trade; but when he killed a calf, he would do it in a high style and make a speech.
Page 216 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.