The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 11Macmillan and Company, limited, 1903 |
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... poet than as a dramatist : his raptures were All air and fire . ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain . He left but a single step to be taken in the full un- folding of the drama , and ...
... poet than as a dramatist : his raptures were All air and fire . ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain . He left but a single step to be taken in the full un- folding of the drama , and ...
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... poet's ancestors , their long residence in Warwickshire , and the fact that some of them were farmers , land - renters , and land - owners . The grand- father of the poet was probably Richard Shakespeare , a farmer who lived within easy ...
... poet's ancestors , their long residence in Warwickshire , and the fact that some of them were farmers , land - renters , and land - owners . The grand- father of the poet was probably Richard Shakespeare , a farmer who lived within easy ...
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... poet's birth . This house finally came into the pos- session , by the bequest of the poet's granddaughter , of the family of his sister Joan Hart , and until 1806 was occupied by them ; the adjoining house to the east was let as an inn ...
... poet's birth . This house finally came into the pos- session , by the bequest of the poet's granddaughter , of the family of his sister Joan Hart , and until 1806 was occupied by them ; the adjoining house to the east was let as an inn ...
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... poet . There are to be seen the deed which conveyed the property to his father ; the letter in which Richard Quiney , whose son Thomas married the poet's youngest daughter , Judith , in 1616 , asked him for a loan of money ; the seal ...
... poet . There are to be seen the deed which conveyed the property to his father ; the letter in which Richard Quiney , whose son Thomas married the poet's youngest daughter , Judith , in 1616 , asked him for a loan of money ; the seal ...
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... poet's life in Stratford . John Shakespeare prospered in private fortune and in public advancement for nearly a decade after the birth of the poet . His means were very considerable for the time and place , and as Bailiff and chief ...
... poet's life in Stratford . John Shakespeare prospered in private fortune and in public advancement for nearly a decade after the birth of the poet . His means were very considerable for the time and place , and as Bailiff and chief ...
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