University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, Volume 61W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1863 - Ireland |
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... appeared , addressed to the late Lord Ellesmere , by Mr. William Henry Smith , bearing the startling title of " Was Lord Bacon the Author of Shakespeare's Plays ? " This was followed , in 1857 , by a small volume in 12mo , by the same ...
... appeared , addressed to the late Lord Ellesmere , by Mr. William Henry Smith , bearing the startling title of " Was Lord Bacon the Author of Shakespeare's Plays ? " This was followed , in 1857 , by a small volume in 12mo , by the same ...
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... appearance . The usual de- ficiencies are the genuine title - page and portrait engraved by Martin Droeshout , with ... appeared in 1617 , but this is palpably a mis- take . Burton was born in 1576 , and died in 1640. He was , therefore ...
... appearance . The usual de- ficiencies are the genuine title - page and portrait engraved by Martin Droeshout , with ... appeared in 1617 , but this is palpably a mis- take . Burton was born in 1576 , and died in 1640. He was , therefore ...
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... appeared it was felt by many to be a relief ; and we have never heard that efforts were made for a revival . To our positive knowledge of Shakes- peare , little or nothing was added . In 1852 the reading world was tled at the ...
... appeared it was felt by many to be a relief ; and we have never heard that efforts were made for a revival . To our positive knowledge of Shakes- peare , little or nothing was added . In 1852 the reading world was tled at the ...
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... appeared before . Mr. Collier himself draws attention to the latter fact , which , always referring to the assumed antiquity of the notes , im- presses him strongly as verifying many profound conjectures and researches of Pope ...
... appeared before . Mr. Collier himself draws attention to the latter fact , which , always referring to the assumed antiquity of the notes , im- presses him strongly as verifying many profound conjectures and researches of Pope ...
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... appeared in front of a cottage , all the females flut- tered away in trepidation . In a second , the house would be ransacked to find out their hiding - place . Sometimes they would be in the fields , and our gallant author would ...
... appeared in front of a cottage , all the females flut- tered away in trepidation . In a second , the house would be ransacked to find out their hiding - place . Sometimes they would be in the fields , and our gallant author would ...
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Page 7 - 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...
Page 7 - ... (before) you were abused with diverse stolen and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealths of injurious impostors that exposed them: even those are now offered to your view cured, and perfect of their limbs ; and all the rest, absolute in their numbers, as he conceived them.
Page 65 - I can never be yours, for I verily believe I have not long to live — but I have left you every shilling of my fortune ;" — upon that she showed me her will — this generosity overpowered me.
Page 163 - Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ...
Page 8 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Page 160 - This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth...
Page 4 - I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so good a commander with so slight, so drunken, and so indiscreet an officer. Drunk ? and speak parrot ? and squabble ? swagger ? swear ? and discourse fustian with one's own shadow?
Page 7 - His mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 25 - Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators.
Page 160 - This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed, and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, (For Christian service, and true chivalry,) As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry, Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's son...