Introduction to ShakespeareBlackie & Son, 1893 - 136 Seiten |
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... born at Stratford - upon - Avon - married and had children . there went to London , where he commenced actor , and wrote poems and plays - returned to Stratford , made his will , died and was buried . " So wrote Steevens a century ago ...
... born at Stratford - upon - Avon - married and had children . there went to London , where he commenced actor , and wrote poems and plays - returned to Stratford , made his will , died and was buried . " So wrote Steevens a century ago ...
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... born William Shakespeare , the eldest son of his parents . Two daughters , who died in infancy , had been born before him . On April the 26th the child was baptized ; a tradition of the last century , that Shakespeare died upon his ...
... born William Shakespeare , the eldest son of his parents . Two daughters , who died in infancy , had been born before him . On April the 26th the child was baptized ; a tradition of the last century , that Shakespeare died upon his ...
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... born in 1566 ; Joan , who was married to William Hart , and whose name appears in the great dramatist's will , was born 1569 ; Anne , born in 1571 , died in her eighth year ; Richard , born in March 1573-74 , lived to manhood , dying at ...
... born in 1566 ; Joan , who was married to William Hart , and whose name appears in the great dramatist's will , was born 1569 ; Anne , born in 1571 , died in her eighth year ; Richard , born in March 1573-74 , lived to manhood , dying at ...
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... born in 1580 , became an actor , died in September 1607 , and on the morning of his burial at St. Saviour's , Southwark , a knell of the " great bell " of the church was rung , a mark of respect secured only by the payment of a ...
... born in 1580 , became an actor , died in September 1607 , and on the morning of his burial at St. Saviour's , Southwark , a knell of the " great bell " of the church was rung , a mark of respect secured only by the payment of a ...
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... born in March , 1606 , was re- puted to be Shakespeare's godson . The gossip which named our poet as father of the boy has no real evidence to lend it support . § 14. The playhouse in which Shakespeare first acted , if not " The Theatre ...
... born in March , 1606 , was re- puted to be Shakespeare's godson . The gossip which named our poet as father of the boy has no real evidence to lend it support . § 14. The playhouse in which Shakespeare first acted , if not " The Theatre ...
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Seite 64 - This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Seite 10 - What years, i' faith? Vio. About your years, my lord. DUKE. Too old, by heaven : let still the woman take An elder than herself : so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart...
Seite 31 - Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare, with the English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Seite 19 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Seite 136 - The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster...
Seite 132 - Soul of the age! 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 are a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Seite 97 - This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstacies, by reading human sentiments in human language, by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
Seite 18 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers heart wrapt in a Players hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shakescene in a countrie.
Seite 129 - We have but collected them, and done an office to the dead, to procure his orphans guardians; without ambition either of self-profit or fame ; only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare, by humble ofier of his plays to your most noble patronage.
Seite 74 - But there seems to have been a period of Shakspeare's life when his heart was ill at ease, and ill content with the world or his own conscience ; the memory of hours misspent, the pang of affection mis-placed or unrequited, the experience of man's worser nature, which intercourse with ill-chosen...