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... the poetical antiquary , shall , from the variety , interest , and integrity of its component parts , be equally gratifying to the general reader . CONTENTS . PART I. SHAKSPEARE IN STRATFORD . CHAPTER I. viii PREFACE .
... the poetical antiquary , shall , from the variety , interest , and integrity of its component parts , be equally gratifying to the general reader . CONTENTS . PART I. SHAKSPEARE IN STRATFORD . CHAPTER I. viii PREFACE .
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... readers an adequate conception of its magnitude , he adds that " it had seven cart load of pins pertaining to it . " S At the first entrance of the Queen into His Lordship's castle a floating island was discerned upon the pool ...
... readers an adequate conception of its magnitude , he adds that " it had seven cart load of pins pertaining to it . " S At the first entrance of the Queen into His Lordship's castle a floating island was discerned upon the pool ...
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... reader a curious and very entertaining description of the costly and magnificent gardens of Kenelworth Castle , gardens in which it is probable the youthful Shakspeare had more than once wandered with delight : — Unto this , His ...
... reader a curious and very entertaining description of the costly and magnificent gardens of Kenelworth Castle , gardens in which it is probable the youthful Shakspeare had more than once wandered with delight : — Unto this , His ...
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... reader of his works ; nor will any person , acquainted with the literature of his times , venture to affirm , that he might not have acquired by his own industry , and through the medium of the introductory books then in circulation , a ...
... reader of his works ; nor will any person , acquainted with the literature of his times , venture to affirm , that he might not have acquired by his own industry , and through the medium of the introductory books then in circulation , a ...
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... reader , if sometimes I use the the words of the ancient authour , in such plaine and homely English , as that time affoorded , not being so regardful , nor tying myself so strictly to deliver any thing in the proper and peculiar wordes ...
... reader , if sometimes I use the the words of the ancient authour , in such plaine and homely English , as that time affoorded , not being so regardful , nor tying myself so strictly to deliver any thing in the proper and peculiar wordes ...
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Shakspeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet; Criticisms on ... Nathan Drake No preview available - 2017 |
Shakspeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet, Criticisms On ... Nathan Drake No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 378 - 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 176 - Alack, alack! is it not like that I, So early waking, what with loathsome smells, And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad: O!
Page 412 - 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 174 - Himself best knows : but strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures ; Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, Put on with holy prayers : and, 'tis spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction.
Page 377 - 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 495 - ... the seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose; and on old Hiems' thin and icy crown an odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds is, as in mockery, set...
Page 108 - Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm : But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
Page 498 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye, that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you...
Page 612 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Page 580 - ARIEL'S song. Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have and kiss'd The wild waves whist, Foot it featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.