The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 11Macmillan and Company, limited, 1903 |
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... , Dost make us marble with too much conceiving , And so sepulchered , in such pomp dost lie That kings for such a tomb would wish to die . JOHN MILTON . 1630 . CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE FORERUNNERS OF SHAKESPEARE PAGE · I.
... , Dost make us marble with too much conceiving , And so sepulchered , in such pomp dost lie That kings for such a tomb would wish to die . JOHN MILTON . 1630 . CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE FORERUNNERS OF SHAKESPEARE PAGE · I.
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... John Heywood is identified . A London boy , believed to have sung for a time in the choir of the Chapel Royal , Heywood studied at Oxford , was befriended by that great Englishman , Sir Thomas More , and early became attached to the ...
... John Heywood is identified . A London boy , believed to have sung for a time in the choir of the Chapel Royal , Heywood studied at Oxford , was befriended by that great Englishman , Sir Thomas More , and early became attached to the ...
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... John Still , a Lincolnshire man by birth , a Cambridge man by education , and a Bishop by vocation , marks the first appearance of the fully developed farce in English , and is notable for vigorous characterization in a mass of vulgar ...
... John Still , a Lincolnshire man by birth , a Cambridge man by education , and a Bishop by vocation , marks the first appearance of the fully developed farce in English , and is notable for vigorous characterization in a mass of vulgar ...
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... John Harvard was born . The population of Stratford is now about nine thou- sand ; in 1564 it was probably less than fifteen hundred . It was surrounded by fields which were sometimes white with grain , and were always , in the season ...
... John Harvard was born . The population of Stratford is now about nine thou- sand ; in 1564 it was probably less than fifteen hundred . It was surrounded by fields which were sometimes white with grain , and were always , in the season ...
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... John Shakespeare removed to Stratford about the middle of the sixteenth century , and became a trader in all manner of farm produce . Then , as now , malt and corn were staple articles of commerce in Stratford ; John Shakespeare dealt ...
... John Shakespeare removed to Stratford about the middle of the sixteenth century , and became a trader in all manner of farm produce . Then , as now , malt and corn were staple articles of commerce in Stratford ; John Shakespeare dealt ...
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