University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, Volume 61W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1863 - Ireland |
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... least forty - five years after the poet's death . His diary bespeaks a common- place mind , and a limited power of observation . The paragraph alluded to runs thus : - Shakespeare , Dray- ton , and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting , and ...
... least forty - five years after the poet's death . His diary bespeaks a common- place mind , and a limited power of observation . The paragraph alluded to runs thus : - Shakespeare , Dray- ton , and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting , and ...
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... least is certain and not disputed ; the plays apparently rise , if we may use the expression , as the series goes on ; all at once Shakespeare leaves London , and the supply ceases . Is this compatible with such a genius thus ...
... least is certain and not disputed ; the plays apparently rise , if we may use the expression , as the series goes on ; all at once Shakespeare leaves London , and the supply ceases . Is this compatible with such a genius thus ...
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... least £ 1,000 . Another may be inspected in the library of Eton College , bequeathed thereto , with the rest of his valuable collection , by Anthony Storer . * Malone has lately found an elaborate biographer . As Steevens has been less ...
... least £ 1,000 . Another may be inspected in the library of Eton College , bequeathed thereto , with the rest of his valuable collection , by Anthony Storer . * Malone has lately found an elaborate biographer . As Steevens has been less ...
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... criticism ; or , at least , of such criticisms as were utter- ed by Steevens , which were remem- bered by all who heard , and repeated by all who remembered them . Burke says , " 18 [ Jan. Shakespeare - his Biographers and Critics .
... criticism ; or , at least , of such criticisms as were utter- ed by Steevens , which were remem- bered by all who heard , and repeated by all who remembered them . Burke says , " 18 [ Jan. Shakespeare - his Biographers and Critics .
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... least a person who acted in that capacity , and whose duty it was when the men were at an unusually hard pull in some rapid , to run before them , turn innumerable somersaults , display indescribable antics , kneel down and piteously ...
... least a person who acted in that capacity , and whose duty it was when the men were at an unusually hard pull in some rapid , to run before them , turn innumerable somersaults , display indescribable antics , kneel down and piteously ...
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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...