Bacon and Shakespeare: An Inquiry Touching Players, Playhouses, and Play-writers in the Days of Elizabeth |
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We merely , to use an expression of Bacon ' s , “ have taken upon us to ring a bell
, to call other wits together , which is the meanest office . " But as , like unready
servants , they stared at the bell instead of answering it , we are compelled to do
...
We merely , to use an expression of Bacon ' s , “ have taken upon us to ring a bell
, to call other wits together , which is the meanest office . " But as , like unready
servants , they stared at the bell instead of answering it , we are compelled to do
...
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Accustomed by the tasts of his age , frequently to connect ideas and expressions
by their most distant relations , he contracted the habit of that learned subtlety
which perceives and assimilates everything , and leaves no point of resemblance
...
Accustomed by the tasts of his age , frequently to connect ideas and expressions
by their most distant relations , he contracted the habit of that learned subtlety
which perceives and assimilates everything , and leaves no point of resemblance
...
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But in eloquence , in sweetness and variety of expression , and in richness of
illustration , his later writings are far superior to those of his youth . We will give
very short specimens of Bacon ' s two styles . In 1597 , he wrote thus : - “ Crafty
men ...
But in eloquence , in sweetness and variety of expression , and in richness of
illustration , his later writings are far superior to those of his youth . We will give
very short specimens of Bacon ' s two styles . In 1597 , he wrote thus : - “ Crafty
men ...
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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 that he should be stopped :
Sufflaminandus ...
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 that he should be stopped :
Sufflaminandus ...
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We do not at all mean to contend that they in any way prove that Bacon was the
author of these plays , but only that they do not afford that direct evidence in
favour of Shakespeare which might be expected ; and that some of the
expressions ...
We do not at all mean to contend that they in any way prove that Bacon was the
author of these plays , but only that they do not afford that direct evidence in
favour of Shakespeare which might be expected ; and that some of the
expressions ...
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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!
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 31 - To whom all Scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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?