William Shakespeare Not an ImpostorG. Routledge & Company, 1857 - 122 من الصفحات |
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... of our mighty Shakespeare , thus wantonly assailed , has indeed been a labour of love ; and if this little volume should have the effect of kindling in any heart a deeper reverence for the memory of William Shakespeare.
... of our mighty Shakespeare , thus wantonly assailed , has indeed been a labour of love ; and if this little volume should have the effect of kindling in any heart a deeper reverence for the memory of William Shakespeare.
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... mighty dead whom he maligns , and the British public which he would delude . Even if he were in possession of proofs to substantiate his grave charges , these ought most decidedly to have been produced , when the charges were made ; and ...
... mighty dead whom he maligns , and the British public which he would delude . Even if he were in possession of proofs to substantiate his grave charges , these ought most decidedly to have been produced , when the charges were made ; and ...
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... mighty dead , now wantonly and wilfully assailed , would have come to the rescue . None have taken up the gauntlet so deliberately thrown down before us ; and he cannot suffer it to be said , that when , in the nineteenth century , dark ...
... mighty dead , now wantonly and wilfully assailed , would have come to the rescue . None have taken up the gauntlet so deliberately thrown down before us ; and he cannot suffer it to be said , that when , in the nineteenth century , dark ...
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... mighty dead to plead the controversy that has arisen respecting the authorship of 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 ...
... mighty dead to plead the controversy that has arisen respecting the authorship of 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 ...
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... mighty were the results . They could not annihilate the man Shakespeare , but they might reduce the poet within reasonable dimen- sions . This was the expedient by which they hoped to gain their ends . To overrate the merits of his ...
... mighty were the results . They could not annihilate the man Shakespeare , but they might reduce the poet within reasonable dimen- sions . This was the expedient by which they hoped to gain their ends . To overrate the merits of his ...
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الصفحة 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.
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 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.