William Shakespeare Not an ImpostorG. Routledge & Company, 1857 - Всего страниц: 122 |
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... readers who have not investigated the matter will wonder how it could ever have been called in question . They must not forget that the province of some critics is to scatter doubts broad - cast over the literature of a country ; and ...
... readers who have not investigated the matter will wonder how it could ever have been called in question . They must not forget that the province of some critics is to scatter doubts broad - cast over the literature of a country ; and ...
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... reader a fairer idea of his extraordinary superiority over all other poets , ancient as well as modern , the author will not have written in vain . LONDON , January 26th , 1857 . " TRUTH may perhaps come to the price of a vi PREFACE .
... reader a fairer idea of his extraordinary superiority over all other poets , ancient as well as modern , the author will not have written in vain . LONDON , January 26th , 1857 . " TRUTH may perhaps come to the price of a vi PREFACE .
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... readers that may be misled by such vagaries . Even the acute and sagacious editor of that deservedly popular periodical , Notes and Queries , falls into the snare , and , apparently without reflecting upon the infamy that must for ever ...
... readers that may be misled by such vagaries . Even the acute and sagacious editor of that deservedly popular periodical , Notes and Queries , falls into the snare , and , apparently without reflecting upon the infamy that must for ever ...
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... readers may decide for themselves . The former get entangled in the cobwebs which they weave from their own brains ; the latter vent their rage upon everything calculated to give grace and dignity to our fallen nature . We cannot ...
... readers may decide for themselves . The former get entangled in the cobwebs which they weave from their own brains ; the latter vent their rage upon everything calculated to give grace and dignity to our fallen nature . We cannot ...
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... reader or student may always test the merits of any composition by careful analysis . Anything in literature which will not bear inspection , which can- not be weighed and examined , which may not be differently expressed , is mere ...
... reader or student may always test the merits of any composition by careful analysis . Anything in literature which will not bear inspection , which can- not be weighed and examined , which may not be differently expressed , is mere ...
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Стр. 119 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Стр. 1 - Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights.
Стр. 79 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Стр. 96 - ... ordain'd otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envie his friends the office of their care and paine...
Стр. 106 - 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.
Стр. 99 - ... and that he Who casts to write a living line must sweat (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Стр. 91 - EPITAPH. ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE. UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse, Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother : Death, ere thou hast slain another, Fair, and learned, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Стр. 94 - ... where [before] you were abus'd with diverse stolne, and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealthes of injurious impostors, that expos' d them : even those, are now offer'd to your view cur'd, and perfect of their limbes ; and all the rest, absolute in their numbers, as he conceived them.
Стр. 89 - ... one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration that had been in many ages : in his adversity, I ever prayed that God would give him strength, for greatness he could not want...
Стр. 103 - What things have we seen Done at the ' Mermaid ? ' Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.