The birds of Shakespeare: critically examined, explained, and illustratedJohn Van Voorst, 1871 - 321 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة viii
... History of British Birds . " Since that date , I have collected so much additional information on the subject , that , instead of eighty pages ( the extent of my first publication ) , three hundred have now passed through the printers ...
... History of British Birds . " Since that date , I have collected so much additional information on the subject , that , instead of eighty pages ( the extent of my first publication ) , three hundred have now passed through the printers ...
الصفحة x
... history can be given without one or more missing links in the chain of evidence , There are four portraits which have all more or less claim to be considered authentic . These are " the Jansen portrait , " 1610 ; " the Stratford bust ...
... history can be given without one or more missing links in the chain of evidence , There are four portraits which have all more or less claim to be considered authentic . These are " the Jansen portrait , " 1610 ; " the Stratford bust ...
الصفحة xi
... history of each in detail . I can only briefly . allude to the chief facts in connection with each , and state the reasons which have influenced me in selecting the Chandos portrait . Mr. Boaden , who was the first to examine into the ...
... history of each in detail . I can only briefly . allude to the chief facts in connection with each , and state the reasons which have influenced me in selecting the Chandos portrait . Mr. Boaden , who was the first to examine into the ...
الصفحة xii
... history be more satisfactorily detailed . Many regard as a genuine portrait , the Bust at Strat- ford - on - Avon , which is stated to have been executed by Gerard Johnson , and " probably " under the superinten- dence of Dr. John Hall ...
... history be more satisfactorily detailed . Many regard as a genuine portrait , the Bust at Strat- ford - on - Avon , which is stated to have been executed by Gerard Johnson , and " probably " under the superinten- dence of Dr. John Hall ...
الصفحة xiv
... history of the picture , so far as it can be ascertained , is as follows : - It was originally the property of Taylor , the player * Boaden adds : " Let it be remembered in aid of this inference that tradition has invariably assigned to ...
... history of the picture , so far as it can be ascertained , is as follows : - It was originally the property of Taylor , the player * Boaden adds : " Let it be remembered in aid of this inference that tradition has invariably assigned to ...
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alluded allusion amongst ancient animal appears BARNACLES beak bird British buzzard Cæsar caliver called choughs cock cormorants crow cuckoo curious Cymbeline daye paied doth doubt eagle eggs England falcon falconry Falstaff feathers feed fish flight fowl frequently goose goshawk gull habits Hamlet hath hawk head Henry heron iiij Julius Cæsar King Lear kite lark Lord Love's Labour's Lost Lucrece Macbeth mentioned Merchant of Venice Midsummer Night's Dream naturalist nest nightingale noticed observed Othello partridge passage peacock pece pelican pheasants Philomel pigeons Plays poet portrait prey quails raven referred Richard Richard II Roman Romeo and Juliet s'vñt says Shakespeare Shakespeare's day Shrew sing song sparrow speaking species sport swallow swan Taming Tempest thee thou Titus Andronicus Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night viij vulture wild wild-fowl wind wings Winter's Tale woodcock word wren young
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الصفحة 3 - What have we here ? a man or a fish ? dead or alive ? A fish : he smells like a fish ; a very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of not of the newest Poor-John.
الصفحة 8 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew"d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge when you hear.
الصفحة 10 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
الصفحة 135 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
الصفحة 143 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
الصفحة 95 - When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail And Tom bears logs into the hall And milk comes frozen home in pail...
الصفحة 168 - Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day ; and at his warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine : and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
الصفحة 18 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home ; Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad; Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring...
الصفحة 19 - Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor : Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold ; The civil citizens kneading up the honey ; The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate ; The sad-ey'd justice, with his surly hum, Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone.
الصفحة 132 - Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise: Arise, arise.