Bacon and Shakespeare: An Inquiry Touching Players, Playhouses, and Play-writers in the Days of ElizabethJ. R. Smith, 1857 - 166 pagina's |
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... Knowledge of Shakespeare . · XIV . - An Epitome of what has gone before 121 • • 143 APPENDIX . - A Brief Description of a curious MS . , entitled A True Historicall Relation of the Con- version of Sir Tobie Matthews . 155 TO HIS READERS ...
... Knowledge of Shakespeare . · XIV . - An Epitome of what has gone before 121 • • 143 APPENDIX . - A Brief Description of a curious MS . , entitled A True Historicall Relation of the Con- version of Sir Tobie Matthews . 155 TO HIS READERS ...
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... knowledge , that " He that delivereth knowledge , desireth to de- liver it in such form as may be soonest believed , and not as may easiliest be examined . " He that receiveth knowledge , desireth rather present satisfaction than ...
... knowledge , that " He that delivereth knowledge , desireth to de- liver it in such form as may be soonest believed , and not as may easiliest be examined . " He that receiveth knowledge , desireth rather present satisfaction than ...
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... knowledge of the period at which they were written , that we should in that case have attributed them to William Shakespeare , is in the highest degree doubtful . To consider the probability of these plays having been written by William ...
... knowledge of the period at which they were written , that we should in that case have attributed them to William Shakespeare , is in the highest degree doubtful . To consider the probability of these plays having been written by William ...
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... knowledge , whether he has it from one language or another . Nothing is more evident than that he had a taste of natural history , mechanics , ancient and modern history , poetical learning , and mythology . We find him very knowing in ...
... knowledge , whether he has it from one language or another . Nothing is more evident than that he had a taste of natural history , mechanics , ancient and modern history , poetical learning , and mythology . We find him very knowing in ...
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... knowledge : his de- scriptions are still exact , all his metaphors appro- priated , and remarkably drawn from the true nature and inherent qualities of each subject . When he treats of ethics or politics , we may constantly observe a ...
... knowledge : his de- scriptions are still exact , all his metaphors appro- priated , and remarkably drawn from the true nature and inherent qualities of each subject . When he treats of ethics or politics , we may constantly observe a ...
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Bacon and Shakespeare: An Inquiry Touching Players, Playhouses, and Play ... William Henry Smith Volledige weergave - 1857 |
Bacon and Shakespeare: An Inquiry Touching Players, Playhouses, and Play ... William Henry Smith Volledige weergave - 1857 |
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Pagina 30 - The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Pagina 72 - 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...
Pagina 20 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Pagina 32 - 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!
Pagina 31 - Yet must I not give nature all: thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be. His art doth give the fashion ; and that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat...
Pagina 27 - His wit was in his own power, would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter: as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, 'Caesar, thou dost me wrong.
Pagina 76 - Lady in generall termes, telling him what shee liked best in him, and prescribing his gesture in smiling, his apparaile, &c., and then when he came to practise making him believe they tooke him to be mad.
Pagina 31 - To whom all Scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time...
Pagina 26 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
Pagina 70 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the mean time two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?