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Page vii
... only children of a larger growth in this imperfect and progressive state of being . Individuals of every age must be delighted with the exquisite delineation of the successive periods of life by our immortal Bard ; DEDICATION . vii.
... only children of a larger growth in this imperfect and progressive state of being . Individuals of every age must be delighted with the exquisite delineation of the successive periods of life by our immortal Bard ; DEDICATION . vii.
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Or, The Progress of Human Life John Evans. the successive periods of life by our immortal Bard ; while it is presumed the candid reader will find in the annexed illustrations , both of prose and poetry , ( upon the plan of my Juvenile ...
Or, The Progress of Human Life John Evans. the successive periods of life by our immortal Bard ; while it is presumed the candid reader will find in the annexed illustrations , both of prose and poetry , ( upon the plan of my Juvenile ...
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... , which raged in his native town with a destructive fury . As to his education , he attended for a short period the free - school at Stratford , where he acquired the little Latin and less Greek , MEMOIR OF SHAK SPEARE . XV.
... , which raged in his native town with a destructive fury . As to his education , he attended for a short period the free - school at Stratford , where he acquired the little Latin and less Greek , MEMOIR OF SHAK SPEARE . XV.
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... period of life . But the well - known story of his stealing deer , along with others , from the park of Sir Thomas Lucy , which has been usually assigned as a cause of his flight to the metropolis , is now discredited . Nor is the tale ...
... period of life . But the well - known story of his stealing deer , along with others , from the park of Sir Thomas Lucy , which has been usually assigned as a cause of his flight to the metropolis , is now discredited . Nor is the tale ...
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... These are subdivided into chapters , illuminating the Age and Period of THE BARD , by concentrating into one focus every thing of interest in his history . The writer remarks in the conclusion of his preface : " xxvi MEMOIR OF SHAKSPEARE .
... These are subdivided into chapters , illuminating the Age and Period of THE BARD , by concentrating into one focus every thing of interest in his history . The writer remarks in the conclusion of his preface : " xxvi MEMOIR OF SHAKSPEARE .
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Page 207 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor...
Page 159 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple. Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
Page 244 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Page 195 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice
Page 159 - She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
Page 159 - She looketh well to the ways of her household, And eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed ; Her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Page 59 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances, And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Page 59 - And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Page 64 - I could discover nothing in it : but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Page 238 - For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years. But wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.