Bacon and Shakespeare: An Inquiry Touching Players, Playhouses, and Play-writers in the Days of Elizabeth |
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His characters are so much Nature herself , that ' tis a sort of injury to call them by
so distant a name as copies of her . The power over our passions was never
possessed in a more eminent degree , or displayed in so different instances ; yet
all ...
His characters are so much Nature herself , that ' tis a sort of injury to call them by
so distant a name as copies of her . The power over our passions was never
possessed in a more eminent degree , or displayed in so different instances ; yet
all ...
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In the following extracts from that able essayist Mr. Macaulay , anatomising and
describing the genius and character of Bacon , the reader will recognise
peculiarities bearing a strong affinity to those which characterise these plays .
The extent ...
In the following extracts from that able essayist Mr. Macaulay , anatomising and
describing the genius and character of Bacon , the reader will recognise
peculiarities bearing a strong affinity to those which characterise these plays .
The extent ...
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... exactly of that peculiar character which we find exhibited in these plays .
CHAPTER V. BACON'S POWERS OF MIND , IN YOUTH AND 18 WIT AND
POETIC FACULTY , ETC.
... exactly of that peculiar character which we find exhibited in these plays .
CHAPTER V. BACON'S POWERS OF MIND , IN YOUTH AND 18 WIT AND
POETIC FACULTY , ETC.
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We attribute , then , the gravity of Bacon's early style , to the nature of his position
and the character of the age . The times of Elizabeth and James are often
mentioned together , as though they were identical , yet few proximate periods
are ...
We attribute , then , the gravity of Bacon's early style , to the nature of his position
and the character of the age . The times of Elizabeth and James are often
mentioned together , as though they were identical , yet few proximate periods
are ...
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... licentious lives , depraved habits , and ruined characters - pests of society ,
shunned by all the respectable portion of the community . CHAPTER VI .
EVIDENCE IN FAVOUR OF SHAKESPEARE . The 24 ETC. BACON'S POWERS
OF MIND ,
... licentious lives , depraved habits , and ruined characters - pests of society ,
shunned by all the respectable portion of the community . CHAPTER VI .
EVIDENCE IN FAVOUR OF SHAKESPEARE . The 24 ETC. BACON'S POWERS
OF MIND ,
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الصفحة 27 - Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius. 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 130 - And worse I may be yet : the worst is not So long as we can say,
الصفحة 32 - ... and that he Who casts to write a living line must sweat (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
الصفحة 74 - 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 43 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely...
الصفحة 31 - 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.
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 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 72 - 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?
الصفحة 32 - Muses' anvil, turn the same (And himself with it) that he thinks to frame, Or for the laurel he may gain a scorn, For a good poet's made as well as born; And such wert thou. Look how the father's face Lives in his issue; even so, the race Of Shakespeare's mind and manners brightly shines In his well-turned and true-filed lines, In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.