The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of EvidenceLongmans, Green, 1902 - 302 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 20
Page 64
... doth almost tell my name , Showing their birth , and where they do proceed ? Here the author certainly intimates that Shake- speare was not his real name , and that he was fearful lest his real name should be discovered . If the author ...
... doth almost tell my name , Showing their birth , and where they do proceed ? Here the author certainly intimates that Shake- speare was not his real name , and that he was fearful lest his real name should be discovered . If the author ...
Page 100
... doth desire To understand , he may at length admire ; and in the very first of his Epigrams he warns the reader , Pray thee , take care , that tak'st my book in hand To read it well - that is to understand . " Again , the writer of the ...
... doth desire To understand , he may at length admire ; and in the very first of his Epigrams he warns the reader , Pray thee , take care , that tak'st my book in hand To read it well - that is to understand . " Again , the writer of the ...
Page 101
... doth best commend a book , the Stationer says . Then , how odd soever your brains be , or your wisdoms , make your licence the same , and spare not . Judge your six - pen'orth , your shilling's worth , your five shillings ' worth at a ...
... doth best commend a book , the Stationer says . Then , how odd soever your brains be , or your wisdoms , make your licence the same , and spare not . Judge your six - pen'orth , your shilling's worth , your five shillings ' worth at a ...
Page 133
... doth live , And we have wits to read , and praise to give . Recognising the lofty aims of Shakespeare Jonson speaks of ' his well - tornèd and true - filèd lines , ' In each of which he seems to shake a Lance , As brandish't at the eyes ...
... doth live , And we have wits to read , and praise to give . Recognising the lofty aims of Shakespeare Jonson speaks of ' his well - tornèd and true - filèd lines , ' In each of which he seems to shake a Lance , As brandish't at the eyes ...
Page 155
... Doth like himself heroically sound . It is in this sense that the author of the Shake- spearian plays employs the word when he thinks of the glories of Agincourt : O for a Muse of Fire , that would ascend The highest heaven of Invention ...
... Doth like himself heroically sound . It is in this sense that the author of the Shake- spearian plays employs the word when he thinks of the glories of Agincourt : O for a Muse of Fire , that would ascend The highest heaven of Invention ...
Other editions - View all
The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of Evidence Thomas Ebenezer Webb No preview available - 2018 |
The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of Evidence Thomas Ebenezer Webb No preview available - 2018 |
Common terms and phrases
addressed ANDREW LANG authorship Biographical Burbage Caesar CO.'S STANDARD Coloured Plates Comedy of Errors consort touching Crown 8vo declares dedicated describes doth dramatist Earl English Essays Essex Experiments in consort Folio Froude's J. A. Gardens genius gilt edges Greene Haggard's H. R. Hamlet Hemming and Condell Henry the Sixth Illus Illustrations Ireland JAMES Jonson King Lady letter literary LL.D London LONGMANS & CO.'S Lord Lord Macaulay Love's Labour's Lost M.A. Crown 8vo Maps Marlowe Matthew MESSRS name of Shakespeare Natural History noted weed opinion Phillipps philosophy Photogravure Player Poems poet Portraits published Queen question recognised regarded remarks revised Richard the Second Romeo Romeo and Juliet says Shake Shakespearian Shakespearian Plays Shakspere Sonnets Southampton speare speech spirits Story Stratford Swinburne Text theory tions Translated Troilus and Cressida University of Dublin verses vols WILLIAM William Shakespeare Winter's Tale words writes young
Popular passages
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.
Page 186 - O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Page 222 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Page 206 - Like to the senators of the antique Rome, With the plebeians swarming at their heels, Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in : As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, Bringing rebellion broached on his sword, How many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him ! much more, and much more cause, Did they this Harry.
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.
Page 3 - Bacon.— THE LETTERS AND LIFE OF FRANCIS BACON, INCLUDING ALL HIS OCCASIONAL WORKS. Edited by JAMES SPEDDING.
Page 17 - Farrar (FW, DEAN OF CANTERBURY). DARKNESS AND DAWN: or, Scenes in the Days of Nero. An Historic Tale. Cr. 8vo., 6s.
Page 5 - Life of the Duke of Wellington. By the Rev. GR Gleig, MA Crown 8vo. with Portrait, 5.r. Felix Mendelssohn' s Letters from Italy and Switzerland, and Letters from 1833 to 1847.
Page 217 - And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war; That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.