The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of EvidenceLongmans, Green, 1902 - 302 pages |
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... Hemming and Condell , as one of their men- players and deserving men . That a great original genius who , in 1588 or 1589 , had produced Love's Labour's Lost , should have condescended to touch up the works of elder and lesser men , is ...
... Hemming and Condell , as one of their men- players and deserving men . That a great original genius who , in 1588 or 1589 , had produced Love's Labour's Lost , should have condescended to touch up the works of elder and lesser men , is ...
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... Hemming and Condell , the men - players , or to any other of his friends and fellows . In February 1601 , an event occurred which brought Essex and Southampton , Bacon and Shakspere , into actual contact ; and if ever there was an ...
... Hemming and Condell , the men - players , or to any other of his friends and fellows . In February 1601 , an event occurred which brought Essex and Southampton , Bacon and Shakspere , into actual contact ; and if ever there was an ...
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... Hemming , we know , was one of the executors of Condell . It appears from documents in the office of the Lord Chamber- lain that he was paid fifty pounds for five perform- ances before the Court in 1595 and 1596 ( H - P.i . 341 ) ; that ...
... Hemming , we know , was one of the executors of Condell . It appears from documents in the office of the Lord Chamber- lain that he was paid fifty pounds for five perform- ances before the Court in 1595 and 1596 ( H - P.i . 341 ) ; that ...
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... Hemming there- fore would seem to have been the treasurer of the Burbage troupe . Malone mentions a tradition that ... Condell , he was connected with the parish of Aldermanbury , and that , like Condell , he was interred in the ...
... Hemming there- fore would seem to have been the treasurer of the Burbage troupe . Malone mentions a tradition that ... Condell , he was connected with the parish of Aldermanbury , and that , like Condell , he was interred in the ...
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... Hemming and Condell , true original though it may have been , had been either written or revised by its author with a view to publication ' ( p . 358 ) . This excites the astonishment of the learned Judge . That the author of Othello ...
... Hemming and Condell , true original though it may have been , had been either written or revised by its author with a view to publication ' ( p . 358 ) . This excites the astonishment of the learned Judge . That the author of Othello ...
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Page 181 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 189 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
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Page 62 - 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.
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