University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, Volume 61W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1863 - Ireland |
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... respect able Vicar of Stratford wrote between February , 1661 , and April , 1663 , at 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 ...
... respect able Vicar of Stratford wrote between February , 1661 , and April , 1663 , at 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 ...
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... all the really reliable information at present pro- curable respecting the revolution which impends over China . 3 ABOUT a quarter of an hour before this Mr. Paul 1863. ] 33 The Yang - Tsze River , and the Taepings in China .
... all the really reliable information at present pro- curable respecting the revolution which impends over China . 3 ABOUT a quarter of an hour before this Mr. Paul 1863. ] 33 The Yang - Tsze River , and the Taepings in China .
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... respect- able witnesses to a formal document , can prove it ; dead and rotten - dust , sir . And in your stupid arrogance , you blundering Irishman , you dare to libel me- your superior in every- thing -- with his villainous name , and ...
... respect- able witnesses to a formal document , can prove it ; dead and rotten - dust , sir . And in your stupid arrogance , you blundering Irishman , you dare to libel me- your superior in every- thing -- with his villainous name , and ...
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... respects your advice and opinion highly -- to induce her to submit without further annoyance ; and I tell you , in confi- dence , she has run herself already into a very sarious predicament . " " Well , sir , I'll be happy to hear you ...
... respects your advice and opinion highly -- to induce her to submit without further annoyance ; and I tell you , in confi- dence , she has run herself already into a very sarious predicament . " " Well , sir , I'll be happy to hear you ...
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... respect than I had imagined . " This was owing " to a greater prospect of hay and other fodder than there was any expecta- tion of about five weeks ago . It is with the uttermost difficulty and a whole morning's waste of my lungs , that ...
... respect than I had imagined . " This was owing " to a greater prospect of hay and other fodder than there was any expecta- tion of about five weeks ago . It is with the uttermost difficulty and a whole morning's waste of my lungs , that ...
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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...