William Shakespeare not an imposter, by an English critic [G.H. Townsend].G. Routledge & Company, 1857 - 122 من الصفحات |
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... LETTER . MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE . HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES . TWICE - TOLD TALES . 2 vols . " Hawthorne is the best writer of fiction yet produced by America , and in style , thought , and the mode of telling a story , thoroughly ...
... LETTER . MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE . HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES . TWICE - TOLD TALES . 2 vols . " Hawthorne is the best writer of fiction yet produced by America , and in style , thought , and the mode of telling a story , thoroughly ...
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... Letter to the Earl of Ellesmere , suggesting whether the plays attributed to Shakespeare were not in reality written by Bacon . The author has overlooked two points : one , the fact that his theory had been anticipated by an American ...
... Letter to the Earl of Ellesmere , suggesting whether the plays attributed to Shakespeare were not in reality written by Bacon . The author has overlooked two points : one , the fact that his theory had been anticipated by an American ...
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... Letters of Junius at his excuse for starting this question . Junius was a writer who did not wish to be known , and the public were , naturally enough , anxious to strip off the mask ; but we have no reason for entertaining the ...
... Letters of Junius at his excuse for starting this question . Junius was a writer who did not wish to be known , and the public were , naturally enough , anxious to strip off the mask ; but we have no reason for entertaining the ...
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... letter , published in the Illustrated London News , of January 10 , under the signature of " John Bull : " - ― " I won't have Bacon . I will have my own cherished ' Will . ' I have borne a great deal , and never changed my faith . I ...
... letter , published in the Illustrated London News , of January 10 , under the signature of " John Bull : " - ― " I won't have Bacon . I will have my own cherished ' Will . ' I have borne a great deal , and never changed my faith . I ...
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... letter moles and grubs at home or abroad ; but what are we to say when we find persons enjoying the reputation in their own country , not only of uni- versal critics , but of original poets , who painfully trans- late , edit , and ...
... letter moles and grubs at home or abroad ; but what are we to say when we find persons enjoying the reputation in their own country , not only of uni- versal critics , but of original poets , who painfully trans- late , edit , and ...
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الصفحة 107 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 56 - Have gloz^d, but superficially ; not much Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought Unfit to hear moral philosophy. The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of...
الصفحة 100 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appeare, And make those flights upon the bankes of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James\ But stay, I see thee in the Hemisphere Advanc'd, and made a Constellation there! Shine forth, thou Starre of Poets, and with rage, Or influence, chide, or cheere the drooping Stage; Which, since thy flight from hence, hath mourn'd like night, And despaires day, but for thy Volumes light.
الصفحة 70 - The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutored 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. Were my worth greater my duty would show greater : meantime, as it is, it is bound to your Lordship, to whom I wish long life, still lengthened with all happiness. Your Lordship's in all duty, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
الصفحة 99 - 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 278 Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
الصفحة 99 - Accius, him of Cordova dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread, And shake a stage; or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.