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... periods . With its nave , transepts , chancel , tower , and spire , it forms a noble whole , while its construction in the yellow oolitic stone , gives it a beautiful and enduring aspect of- ten wanting in more extensive buildings . The ...
... periods . With its nave , transepts , chancel , tower , and spire , it forms a noble whole , while its construction in the yellow oolitic stone , gives it a beautiful and enduring aspect of- ten wanting in more extensive buildings . The ...
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... period of Henry VII . , though there is no actual record respecting them . Perhaps Sir Hugh Clopton may have contributed to their erection . His executors are mentioned to have repaired the transepts , but the transepts themselves are ...
... period of Henry VII . , though there is no actual record respecting them . Perhaps Sir Hugh Clopton may have contributed to their erection . His executors are mentioned to have repaired the transepts , but the transepts themselves are ...
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... period the usual practice , but it is now white . The colours are thus stated to have appeared at first - The eyes were a light hazel ; the hair and beard auburn ; the dress a scarlet doublet , slashed on the breast , over which was a ...
... period the usual practice , but it is now white . The colours are thus stated to have appeared at first - The eyes were a light hazel ; the hair and beard auburn ; the dress a scarlet doublet , slashed on the breast , over which was a ...
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... period in his life . As we saunter along the footpath which the future " Immortal " trod , and note the verdant elms and distant Ilmington hills , it may be well to descant a moment on the intervening period . It is admitted on all ...
... period in his life . As we saunter along the footpath which the future " Immortal " trod , and note the verdant elms and distant Ilmington hills , it may be well to descant a moment on the intervening period . It is admitted on all ...
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... period than Shakespeare's visita- tions . A " courting - chair " said to have been used by the poet , and large enough for two , used to be shown here ; but we strongly opine that old Hathaway had a piece of oak of another description ...
... period than Shakespeare's visita- tions . A " courting - chair " said to have been used by the poet , and large enough for two , used to be shown here ; but we strongly opine that old Hathaway had a piece of oak of another description ...
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Alveston ancient Anne Hathaway appears Avon bard beautiful Bishop of Worcester bust chancel chapel Charlecote Park chimney clerestory CONNECTED WITH SHAKESPEARE daughter deer-stealing doubtless dramatist Elizabethan elms flowers ford gilthed glades of Charlecote Grammar School Guild hairy fool Halliwell says Halliwell's hamlet hath Hatton Rock HAUNTS OF SHAKESPEARE Henley-street Henry VII Ilmington imagine inscription John Shakespeare Knight lofty look lord Luddington mansion meadows melancholy Jaques monument native nave oriel window oxlips perhaps pike pikerell pilgrim players plays poet present probably purchased remains resided river Robert de Stratford roof scene scenery Shake Shakespeare was born Shakespeare's father Shallow Shottery side Sir Hugh Clopton Sir Thomas Lucy soft-flowing Avon speare spire Squire Lucy stone bridge strag Strat Stratford Church Stratford-upon-Avon stream Susanna thatched thought timber tomb town transept trees trodden ture turrets Warwickshire Weir Brake white luces wife William Shakespeare willows wood youthful
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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.