The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from Each Play, with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper Heads |
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He had his wife and family about him ; he was surrounded by familiar scenes and faces ; and he was in possession of a property of about £ 300 a - year , equal to much more than £ 1000 at present ; and which must have been fully adequate ...
He had his wife and family about him ; he was surrounded by familiar scenes and faces ; and he was in possession of a property of about £ 300 a - year , equal to much more than £ 1000 at present ; and which must have been fully adequate ...
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It is said , that as Shakspeare was leaning over the hatch of a mercer's door at Stratford , a drunken blacksmith , with a carbuncled face , reeled up to him , and demanded , " Now , Mr. Shakspeare , tell me if you can , The difference ...
It is said , that as Shakspeare was leaning over the hatch of a mercer's door at Stratford , a drunken blacksmith , with a carbuncled face , reeled up to him , and demanded , " Now , Mr. Shakspeare , tell me if you can , The difference ...
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... were then collected within the walls of the metropolitan theatres , who came to hear their vices flattered ; and of women masked , ashamed to show their faces at representations which they were sufficiently abandoned to delight in .
... were then collected within the walls of the metropolitan theatres , who came to hear their vices flattered ; and of women masked , ashamed to show their faces at representations which they were sufficiently abandoned to delight in .
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At first , the infant Muling and puking in the nurse's arms ; And then , the whining school - boy , with his satchel , And shining morning face , creepnig like snail Unwillingly to school ; And then , the lover , Sighing like furnace ...
At first , the infant Muling and puking in the nurse's arms ; And then , the whining school - boy , with his satchel , And shining morning face , creepnig like snail Unwillingly to school ; And then , the lover , Sighing like furnace ...
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... sharp - looking wretch , A living dead man : this pernicions slave , Forsooth , took on him as a conjurer ; And , gazing in mine eyes , feeling my pulse . " 1 + And with no face , as ' twere outfacing me 24 BEAUTIES OF SHAKSPEARE .
... sharp - looking wretch , A living dead man : this pernicions slave , Forsooth , took on him as a conjurer ; And , gazing in mine eyes , feeling my pulse . " 1 + And with no face , as ' twere outfacing me 24 BEAUTIES OF SHAKSPEARE .
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