The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 11Macmillan and Company, limited, 1903 |
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Page 38
... speare was neither by instinct nor opportunity a scholar in the sense in which Ben Jonson was a scholar ; but he ... speare's opportunities and a little common sense in reckoning with his genius will dissipate the confusion of mind ...
... speare was neither by instinct nor opportunity a scholar in the sense in which Ben Jonson was a scholar ; but he ... speare's opportunities and a little common sense in reckoning with his genius will dissipate the confusion of mind ...
Page 39
... speare's time , was a free school , taking boys of the neighbourhood from seven years upwards , and keep- ing them on the benches with generous disregard of hours . There were holidays , however , and there was time for punting on the ...
... speare's time , was a free school , taking boys of the neighbourhood from seven years upwards , and keep- ing them on the benches with generous disregard of hours . There were holidays , however , and there was time for punting on the ...
Page 49
... speare's work : in " The Winter's Tale " the flowers of Warwickshire are woven together in one of the most exquisite calendars of season and blossom in the whole range of poetry ; in " As You Like It " the depths and hollows and long ...
... speare's work : in " The Winter's Tale " the flowers of Warwickshire are woven together in one of the most exquisite calendars of season and blossom in the whole range of poetry ; in " As You Like It " the depths and hollows and long ...
Page 67
... speare's time , but they were not often entered into by persons in Shakespeare's position ; the process was more expensive and complicated than the " asking of the banns , " but it offered one advantage : it shortened the time within ...
... speare's time , but they were not often entered into by persons in Shakespeare's position ; the process was more expensive and complicated than the " asking of the banns , " but it offered one advantage : it shortened the time within ...
Page 68
... speare's life , that he was a boy of eighteen at the time of his marriage , and that Anne Hathaway was eight years his senior . That he was an ardent and eloquent lover it is impossible to doubt ; the tradition that he was an unhappy ...
... speare's life , that he was a boy of eighteen at the time of his marriage , and that Anne Hathaway was eight years his senior . That he was an ardent and eloquent lover it is impossible to doubt ; the tradition that he was an unhappy ...
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