Bacon and ShakspereBrentano Bros., 1885 - 48 pages |
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... copy , his first attempt is futile , the second is passable , and the third quite successful . But in attempting the next letter he makes it worse every time : 91 رہا ج With the letter a he is more successful , making it legible three ...
... copy , his first attempt is futile , the second is passable , and the third quite successful . But in attempting the next letter he makes it worse every time : 91 رہا ج With the letter a he is more successful , making it legible three ...
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... copy of the deed from Henry Walker is signed by William Shakspere . This duplicate is in the Library of the city of London ; the mortgage is in the British Museum . The duplicate deed we suspect was signed after the mortgage . Hence the ...
... copy of the deed from Henry Walker is signed by William Shakspere . This duplicate is in the Library of the city of London ; the mortgage is in the British Museum . The duplicate deed we suspect was signed after the mortgage . Hence the ...
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... copy set for him . Note now the various spellings of his name : In 1582 , as a bridegroom , Shagsper . In 1593 and 1594 , as a poet , Shakespeare ; and the same uniformly as a playwright from 1598 to 1623 , but sometimes with a hyphen ...
... copy set for him . Note now the various spellings of his name : In 1582 , as a bridegroom , Shagsper . In 1593 and 1594 , as a poet , Shakespeare ; and the same uniformly as a playwright from 1598 to 1623 , but sometimes with a hyphen ...
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... copy of the Shakspere Folio of 1632 , ( i.e. , the second Folio , ) containing the author's autograph pasted on a fly - leaf , underneath which is written : " The works of William Shakespeare . Born in April , 1564 , and died in April ...
... copy of the Shakspere Folio of 1632 , ( i.e. , the second Folio , ) containing the author's autograph pasted on a fly - leaf , underneath which is written : " The works of William Shakespeare . Born in April , 1564 , and died in April ...
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... copies of what is called the Chandos portrait , but are not much like it . The Chandos pic- ture was painted by an unknown artist , and has been altered by a later hand . It is said to have been owned by Sir William Davenant , who died ...
... copies of what is called the Chandos portrait , but are not much like it . The Chandos pic- ture was painted by an unknown artist , and has been altered by a later hand . It is said to have been owned by Sir William Davenant , who died ...
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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.