Shakespeare's Life and WorkMacmillan, 1900 - 231 pages |
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... young . ' At the end of 1582 Shakespeare , when little more than eighteen and a half , took a step which was little calculated to lighten his father's anxieties . He married . His wife , ac- cording to the inscription on her tombstone ...
... young . ' At the end of 1582 Shakespeare , when little more than eighteen and a half , took a step which was little calculated to lighten his father's anxieties . He married . His wife , ac- cording to the inscription on her tombstone ...
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... young Shakespeare to adopt such cumbrous formalities when there was always available the simpler , less expensive , and more leisurely method of marriage by ' thrice asking of the banns . ' Moreover , the wording of the bond which was ...
... young Shakespeare to adopt such cumbrous formalities when there was always available the simpler , less expensive , and more leisurely method of marriage by ' thrice asking of the banns . ' Moreover , the wording of the bond which was ...
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... young fellows , fallen into ill company , and , among them , some , that made a frequent practice of deer - stealing , engaged him with them more than once in robbing a park that belonged to [ a wealthy country gentleman ] Sir Thomas ...
... young fellows , fallen into ill company , and , among them , some , that made a frequent practice of deer - stealing , engaged him with them more than once in robbing a park that belonged to [ a wealthy country gentleman ] Sir Thomas ...
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... young men ; fashions of speech and dress current in fashionable circles ; the inefficiency of " rural constables and the pedantry of village schoolmasters and curates . The play was revised in 1597 , probably for a performance at Court ...
... young men ; fashions of speech and dress current in fashionable circles ; the inefficiency of " rural constables and the pedantry of village schoolmasters and curates . The play was revised in 1597 , probably for a performance at Court ...
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... young stranger who had set up his tent in their midst , and one veteran uttered without delay a rancorous protest . Robert Greene , who died on Septem- ber 3 , 1592 , wrote on his deathbed an ill - natured farewell to life , entitled ...
... young stranger who had set up his tent in their midst , and one veteran uttered without delay a rancorous protest . Robert Greene , who died on Septem- ber 3 , 1592 , wrote on his deathbed an ill - natured farewell to life , entitled ...
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Page 86 - 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 63 - The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutor'd lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I have done is yours ; what I have to do is yours ; being part in all I have, devoted yours.
Page 137 - True/ representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry VIII., which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage; the knights of the order with their Georges and garters, the guards with their embroidered coats, and the like ; sufficient, in truth, within a while, to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous.
Page 137 - King Henry, making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle...
Page 51 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Page 34 - As it hath been often (with great applause) plaid publiquely, by the right Honourable the L. of Hunsdon his Seruants.
Page 69 - And the sad augurs mock their own presage; Incertainties now crown themselves assured, And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes. Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rhyme, While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes; And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.
Page 185 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 16 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire, for some time, and shelter himself in London.
Page 112 - O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow ; he brought up Horace, giving the poets a pill ; but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge, that made him bewray his credit.