Bacon and ShakspereBrentano Bros., 1885 - 48 pages |
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... William Gefe / por Sizler ann Экофроза Melian They are all such signatures as an illiterate person , unaccustomed to write , would be likely to scrawl ; and M195646 they are so different that an acquaintance with one is CALIFORNIA.
... William Gefe / por Sizler ann Экофроза Melian They are all such signatures as an illiterate person , unaccustomed to write , would be likely to scrawl ; and M195646 they are so different that an acquaintance with one is CALIFORNIA.
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... illiterate per- son would sign his name thus ? In the last two signatures ( being told perhaps that his name ought to be written on one line ) he puts William before Shakspere ; but the fourth William reads Willin . See now how ...
... illiterate per- son would sign his name thus ? In the last two signatures ( being told perhaps that his name ought to be written on one line ) he puts William before Shakspere ; but the fourth William reads Willin . See now how ...
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... illiterate person would be likely to do . But there are more of these various spellings . All the records of Shakspere's lifetime have been hunted up and printed . From these documents , consisting of deeds , bills of complaint ...
... illiterate person would be likely to do . But there are more of these various spellings . All the records of Shakspere's lifetime have been hunted up and printed . From these documents , consisting of deeds , bills of complaint ...
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... illiteracy . Mr. C. F. Gunther , of Chicago , claims to have ob- tained a 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 ...
... illiteracy . Mr. C. F. Gunther , of Chicago , claims to have ob- tained a 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 ...
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... illiterate man who is obliged often to sign his name , will do it uniformly , so that when you have seen his signature once you will know it again . For example , take the following autographs : Ism . W. Smith John . W. Smith John ...
... illiterate man who is obliged often to sign his name , will do it uniformly , so that when you have seen his signature once you will know it again . For example , take the following autographs : Ism . W. Smith John . W. Smith John ...
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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.