Bacon and ShakspereBrentano Bros., 1885 - 48 pages |
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... same year among thirteen names of holders of corn in Stratford the last but one is Shakesper : одкварал . The form of the letter a in both these fac - similes was peculiar to that time . It occurs in Shakspere's COULD NOT WRITE .
... same year among thirteen names of holders of corn in Stratford the last but one is Shakesper : одкварал . The form of the letter a in both these fac - similes was peculiar to that time . It occurs in Shakspere's COULD NOT WRITE .
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... Stratford - upon - Avon from 1648 to 1679 . The book is said to have been owned by a Mormon , and is supposed to have been brought from England by an emigrant to Utah . Aside from the impossibility of such an autograph escaping from ...
... Stratford - upon - Avon from 1648 to 1679 . The book is said to have been owned by a Mormon , and is supposed to have been brought from England by an emigrant to Utah . Aside from the impossibility of such an autograph escaping from ...
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... Stratford was first noticed in 1623. It was not taken from life , and is unlike any picture of Shakspere . It presents him in the act of composition , and " the vis comica , " says Boaden , " so broadens his countenance , that it is ...
... Stratford was first noticed in 1623. It was not taken from life , and is unlike any picture of Shakspere . It presents him in the act of composition , and " the vis comica , " says Boaden , " so broadens his countenance , that it is ...
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... Stratford , the father of three children - two of them twins . His father is said to have been a butcher as well as a dealer in wool ; and gossiping John Aubrey says he was told by some of the neighbors that when the boy William " kill ...
... Stratford , the father of three children - two of them twins . His father is said to have been a butcher as well as a dealer in wool ; and gossiping John Aubrey says he was told by some of the neighbors that when the boy William " kill ...
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... Stratford , though Mr. White presumes he has become connected with the London stage this year , or perhaps a little- later . To be continued to the end of both lives , making a book of 300 pages or more , including this pamphlet as an ...
... Stratford , though Mr. White presumes he has become connected with the London stage this year , or perhaps a little- later . To be continued to the end of both lives , making a book of 300 pages or more , including this pamphlet as an ...
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addressed appears autograph Bacon and Shakspere Bacon wrote Barnfield birds sing madrigals Burleigh Chandos portrait Charles Mackay conceit copy Corydon couplet dedicated deed doth Dowland Earl of Essex edition of 1614 editor England's Helicon Faery Queen falls Melodious birds father Finis flocks feed FRANCIS BACON Greville Halliwell-Phillipps hath heavenly touch HENRY BURR honor illiterate John Joseph Taylor King James letter lines Lord Love's man-at-arms Marlowe Melodious birds sing merry mortgage never noto Nymph's Reply omits parallels Passionate Pilgrim person pieces play poem portrait praise published Richard Barnfield Richard Grant White says secret authorship Shakespeare Shakesper shallow rivers Shaxberd Shaxper Shepherd sign his name signature signed Ig signed Ignoto Sir Walter Raleigh song Sonnets spelling Spenser stanza Stratford subscribed Ignoto supposed sweet thee thou art thousand fragrant posies thy love verse William Shakspere wilt write WRITTEN BY FRANCIS xviii young younger youth
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Page 35 - A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten ; In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw, and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps, and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and be thy love.
Page 18 - When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate. Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope.
Page 24 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 32 - As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made...
Page 24 - tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Page 34 - With coral clasps and amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love.
Page 32 - now would she cry; " Ter u, Teru ! " by and by ; That to hear her so complain Scarce I could from tears refrain; For her griefs, so lively shown, Made me think upon mine own. Ah, thought I, thou mourn'st in...
Page 15 - To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers...
Page 35 - If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy Love.
Page 33 - Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle. A gown made of the finest wool Which from our pretty lambs we pull; Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold.