Bacon and ShakspereBrentano Bros., 1885 - 48 pages |
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... appears to have been a customary one as early as 1598. ( See examples of that year below . ) Shakspere's first attempt to form the crooked letter is a failure , but the second passably good . So again in 1616 , when he has a different ...
... appears to have been a customary one as early as 1598. ( See examples of that year below . ) Shakspere's first attempt to form the crooked letter is a failure , but the second passably good . So again in 1616 , when he has a different ...
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... appear to have been penned with ordinary firmness . " Presuming that the signatures were made in a sick . bed , the author concedes that the words " By me " were penned with ordinary firmness . Very good ; but could not almost any five ...
... appear to have been penned with ordinary firmness . " Presuming that the signatures were made in a sick . bed , the author concedes that the words " By me " were penned with ordinary firmness . Very good ; but could not almost any five ...
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... appear till The latter poem has 154 stanzas of 14 lines each ; the first 126 are addressed to a beautiful and ardently beloved youth ; the remainder to the young man's betrothed . As to the merits of the composition , the American ...
... appear till The latter poem has 154 stanzas of 14 lines each ; the first 126 are addressed to a beautiful and ardently beloved youth ; the remainder to the young man's betrothed . As to the merits of the composition , the American ...
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... appears at the time : " Oh , how I faint when I of you do write , Knowing a better spirit doth use your name , And ... appear ; Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat , Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride ; Or being wrecked ...
... appears at the time : " Oh , how I faint when I of you do write , Knowing a better spirit doth use your name , And ... appear ; Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat , Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride ; Or being wrecked ...
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... appears that the young Earl had won the heart of the widow Sidney : " That thou hast her , it is not all my grief , And yet it may be said I loved her dearly ; That she hath thee , is of my wailing chief , A loss in love that touches me ...
... appears that the young Earl had won the heart of the widow Sidney : " That thou hast her , it is not all my grief , And yet it may be said I loved her dearly ; That she hath thee , is of my wailing chief , A loss in love that touches me ...
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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.