Bacon and Shakespeare: An Inquiry Touching Players, Playhouses, and Play-writers in the Days of ElizabethJ. R. Smith, 1857 - 166 من الصفحات |
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... matters of plays increased ; and in the haunt unto them were found many dangers , both for religion , state , honesty of manners , unthriftiness of the poor , danger of infection , & c .; and the preachers daily crying out against them ...
... matters of plays increased ; and in the haunt unto them were found many dangers , both for religion , state , honesty of manners , unthriftiness of the poor , danger of infection , & c .; and the preachers daily crying out against them ...
الصفحة 65
... with Mr. Collier in matters to which he has devoted so much ability , so perseveringly , and with such unusual advantages , " yet it certainly would not be difficult , “ from various authorities , " to controvert 5 PLAYHOUSES . 65.
... with Mr. Collier in matters to which he has devoted so much ability , so perseveringly , and with such unusual advantages , " yet it certainly would not be difficult , “ from various authorities , " to controvert 5 PLAYHOUSES . 65.
الصفحة 74
... matters of state sleep I will en- tertain you with what hath happened this week at the Bankside . " The King's players had a new play , called All is True , representing some principall pieces in the reign of Henry VIII . , which was ...
... matters of state sleep I will en- tertain you with what hath happened this week at the Bankside . " The King's players had a new play , called All is True , representing some principall pieces in the reign of Henry VIII . , which was ...
الصفحة 79
... the curiosity of the public , and attract an audience . It was of the first importance to the actors too , that the authors should be men that would produce matter congenial to the taste , and level with the -Play-Writers 40.
... the curiosity of the public , and attract an audience . It was of the first importance to the actors too , that the authors should be men that would produce matter congenial to the taste , and level with the -Play-Writers 40.
الصفحة 80
... matter congenial to the taste , and level with the understandings , of those who came to hear it . The profound wisdom and the noble language of the writers of that time were ill suited for such a pur- pose . This new demand , therefore ...
... matter congenial to the taste , and level with the understandings , of those who came to hear it . The profound wisdom and the noble language of the writers of that time were ill suited for such a pur- pose . This new demand , therefore ...
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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?