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Page 16
... taken by his father to see the performance . Mr. Halliwell says , that he was " in all likelihood a spec- tator of the performances . " In 1573 , Lord Leicester's 1 players visited the town , and in 1576 when 16 STRATFORD , AND THE.
... taken by his father to see the performance . Mr. Halliwell says , that he was " in all likelihood a spec- tator of the performances . " In 1573 , Lord Leicester's 1 players visited the town , and in 1576 when 16 STRATFORD , AND THE.
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... taken by the parish clerk to be used as a watering trough . The late Captain Saunders purchased it of the clerk , and it now stands in the garden of Mr. Heritage , a builder . Such are the transitions we are subjected to in this ...
... taken by the parish clerk to be used as a watering trough . The late Captain Saunders purchased it of the clerk , and it now stands in the garden of Mr. Heritage , a builder . Such are the transitions we are subjected to in this ...
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... taken from the " Midsummer Night's Dream . " " The Poet's eye , in a fine frenzy rolling , Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven , And , as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen Turns ...
... taken from the " Midsummer Night's Dream . " " The Poet's eye , in a fine frenzy rolling , Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven , And , as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen Turns ...
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... formerly belonged to the College , and was purchased and placed here at the sale which took place a short time before that building was taken down . T.G.Flowers Edin THE CHURCH , AND SHAKESPEARE'S TOMB . SLOWLY 26 STRATFORD , AND THE.
... formerly belonged to the College , and was purchased and placed here at the sale which took place a short time before that building was taken down . T.G.Flowers Edin THE CHURCH , AND SHAKESPEARE'S TOMB . SLOWLY 26 STRATFORD , AND THE.
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... taken down in 1763 , when the present stone spire was erected . The height of the tower and spire is 163 feet . A curious thickly arched avenue of lime trees con- ducts to the entrance of the sacred place , where we pause for a moment ...
... taken down in 1763 , when the present stone spire was erected . The height of the tower and spire is 163 feet . A curious thickly arched avenue of lime trees con- ducts to the entrance of the sacred place , where we pause for a moment ...
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Page 16 - ... 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 16 - 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 62 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree that he was...
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 44 - There is a willow grows ascaunt the brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream ; Therewith fantastick garlands did she make Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples§, That liberal || shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them...
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 16 - 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.