Shakespeare's SonnetsD. Nutt, 1890 - 316 pages FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARYTHE WORLD'S LEADING CENTER FOR SHAKESPEARE STUDIES"This edition includes: " Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on the page facing each sonnet and poem A brief introduction to each sonnet and poem, providing insight and context Introductions to reading Shakespeare's language in the sonnets and in the poems Essays by leading Shakespeare scholars who provide modern perspectives on the sonnets and on the poems Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books"Essays by" Lynne Magnusson and Catherine BelseyThe Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu. |
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... observed , however , that though the form which Shakespeare adopted now bears his name , yet it had been moulded on English ground by his poetical predecessors and contem- poraries , and Sonnets of similar form had been linked together ...
... observed , however , that though the form which Shakespeare adopted now bears his name , yet it had been moulded on English ground by his poetical predecessors and contem- poraries , and Sonnets of similar form had been linked together ...
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... observed that the Sonnets are to be divided into two , or , perhaps still better , into three series . By far the larger proportion , I to 126 , are addressed to an intimate male friend of the poet , a youth high - born , and wealthy ...
... observed that the Sonnets are to be divided into two , or , perhaps still better , into three series . By far the larger proportion , I to 126 , are addressed to an intimate male friend of the poet , a youth high - born , and wealthy ...
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William Shakespeare Thomas Tyler. at once suggests the idea of arrangement . Then we observe that , although in one of these first Sonnets the poet , com- plying with old custom , addresses his friend as " love " ( 13 ) , yet , on the ...
William Shakespeare Thomas Tyler. at once suggests the idea of arrangement . Then we observe that , although in one of these first Sonnets the poet , com- plying with old custom , addresses his friend as " love " ( 13 ) , yet , on the ...
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... observations will be found in Chapter IV . But before making any further attempt to identify " Mr. W. H. , " it may be convenient to find , if we can , some sure indications of time a matter of pre - eminent importance in relation to ...
... observations will be found in Chapter IV . But before making any further attempt to identify " Mr. W. H. , " it may be convenient to find , if we can , some sure indications of time a matter of pre - eminent importance in relation to ...
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... observe , with reference to the period of the year 1598 , when Meres made his allusion to the " sugred Sonnets , " that he mentions Chapman's " inchoate Homer . ' Chapman had published in 1598 seven books of his translation of the Iliad ...
... observe , with reference to the period of the year 1598 , when Meres made his allusion to the " sugred Sonnets , " that he mentions Chapman's " inchoate Homer . ' Chapman had published in 1598 seven books of his translation of the Iliad ...
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Page 290 - Coral is far more red than her lips' red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound...
Page 104 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased ; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasure'd. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 98 - CXLVI. Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, Fool'd by those rebel powers that thee array, Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward walls so costly gay ? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy charge ? Is this thy body's end ? Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, And let that pine to aggravate thy store ; By terms divine in selling hours of dross ; Within be fed,...
Page 9 - And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight: Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.
Page 211 - What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend ? Since every one hath, every one, one shade, And you, but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you ; On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set, And you in Grecian tires are painted new...
Page 9 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...
Page 188 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's •waste...
Page 270 - O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 175 - And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion...
Page 8 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.