...could hardly say what he had said with so much literal truth some years before — . : . ••!:.: He gave the people of his best : His worst he kept, his best he gave. But his fame was secure. In 1880 appeared the volume containing the fine ballads of ' Rispah ' and...

...shameless ! for he did but sing A song that pleased us from its worth; No public life was his on earth. He gave the people of his best ; His worst he kept, his best b gave. My Shakespeare's curse on clowi and knave Who will not let his ashes rest ! Who make it seem...

...he did but sing A song that pleased us from its worth; No public life was his on earth, No blazon'd statesman he, nor king. He gave the people of his best: His worst he kept, his best he gave. My Shakespeare's curse on l clown and knave Who will not let his ashes rest! Who make it seem more sweet...

...sufficient to him, he had carefully excluded from the definitive edition of his collected writings. He gave the people of his best ; His worst he kept, his best he gave. One can imagine a poet tempted to address some such appeal as this to any possible future publisher...

...present volume that this controversy may not be reopened. Let us bear in mind the words of Tennyson — " He gave the people of his best : His worst he kept : his best he gave : My Shakespeare's curse on clown and knave, Who will not let his ashes rest." As Professor Huxley wrote,...

...he did but sing A song that pleased us from its worth No public life was his on earth, No blazon'd statesman he, nor king. He gave the people of his best : His worst he kept, his best he gave. My Shakespeare's curse on clown and knave Who will not let his ashes rest l Who make it seem more sweet...

...sufficient to him, he had carefully excluded from the definitive edition of his collected writings. He gave the people of his best ; His worst he kept, his best he gave. One can imagine a poet tempted to address some such appeal as this to any possible future publisher...

...he did but sing A song that pleased us from its worth ; No public life was his on earth, No blazon'd statesman he, nor king. He gave the people of his best : His worst he kept, his best he gave. My Shakespeare's curse on clown and knave Who will not let his ashes rest ! Who make it seem more sweet...

...from Shakespeare ("my Shakespeare's curse, " he calls it) in those lines of his about the dead "poet": "He gave the people of his best: * His worst he kept, his best he gave. My Shakespeare's curse on clown and knave Who will not let his ashes rest." We may, however, take heart...

...meant for the public, is printed for the gossiping amusement of people too idle to re-read his books? " He gave the people of his best. His worst he kept, his best he gave " ; but there is a certain set, not a small one, who are titillated by the worst and indifferent to...