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... centuries before the Norman Conquest ; " or how a Saxon mo- nastery came to be there , which was destroyed ; and how the Bishops of Worcester became possessed of the place , and who followed them . These matters we leave for those whom ...
... centuries before the Norman Conquest ; " or how a Saxon mo- nastery came to be there , which was destroyed ; and how the Bishops of Worcester became possessed of the place , and who followed them . These matters we leave for those whom ...
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... may be seen from humbler ancient dwellings yet remaining in Stratford , there was usually only an apartment with attic windows above the ground floor . Loftier houses only became general in the sixteenth century . HAUNTS OF SHAKESPEARE .
... may be seen from humbler ancient dwellings yet remaining in Stratford , there was usually only an apartment with attic windows above the ground floor . Loftier houses only became general in the sixteenth century . HAUNTS OF SHAKESPEARE .
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... century . Yet this house , lowly as it seems , is con- structed with a ponderosity that will yet resist time's efforts for centuries . Looking curiously yet reverentially at the old tim- bered house , with its open butcher's window ...
... century . Yet this house , lowly as it seems , is con- structed with a ponderosity that will yet resist time's efforts for centuries . Looking curiously yet reverentially at the old tim- bered house , with its open butcher's window ...
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... century the old font was discarded and a new one ! put up . Thus all old associations were dried up , and the sacred stone at which so many had been christened , was thrown into the charnel house . Here among skulls and bones it lay ...
... century the old font was discarded and a new one ! put up . Thus all old associations were dried up , and the sacred stone at which so many had been christened , was thrown into the charnel house . Here among skulls and bones it lay ...
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... century , almost entirely by his exertions . At the south end of the room is a whole - length picture of Garrick , in a thoughtful attitude , but in the attire of the day , one arm embracing a bust of Shakespeare . This is well painted ...
... century , almost entirely by his exertions . At the south end of the room is a whole - length picture of Garrick , in a thoughtful attitude , but in the attire of the day , one arm embracing a bust of Shakespeare . This is well painted ...
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Page 23 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 11 - When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight...
Page 18 - ... t were, the mirror up to Nature ; to show virtue her own feature ; scorn, her own image ; and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure. Now, this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 18 - Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Page 32 - Triumph, my Britain! Thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time...
Page 61 - Upon his leaving school, he seems to have given entirely into that way of living which his father -proposed to him; and in order to settle in the world after a ..family manner, he thought fit to marry while he was yet very young.
Page 61 - In this kind of settlement he continued for some time, till an extravagance that he was guilty of, forced him both out of his country, and that way of living which he had taken up : and though it seemed at first to be a blemish upon his good manners, and a misfortune...
Page 17 - I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions ; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Page 62 - ... GREAT MAINTAINER OF HOSPITALITY ; GREATLY ESTEEMED OF HER BETTERS ; MISLIKED OF NONE UNLESS OF THE ENVIOUS. WHEN ALL IS SPOKEN THAT CAN BE SAID, A WOMAN SO FURNISHED AND GARNISHED WITH VIRTUE, AS NOT TO BE BETTERED, AND HARDLY TO BE EQUALLED BY ANY. AS SHE LIVED MOST VIRTUOUSLY, SO SHE DYED MOST GODLY. SET DOWN BY HIM THAT BEST DID KNOW WHAT HATH BEEN WRITTEN TO BE TRUE. THOMAS LUCY.
Page 19 - Howie, — came, on Shakespeare's death, to Mrs. Hall, and, on her decease, to her only child, Elizabeth Nash, afterwards Lady Barnard. In this mansion, while it belonged to Mr.