Bacon and ShakspereBrentano Bros., 1885 - 48 pages |
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... / 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.
... / 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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... signature he writes Wm . for William . The second and third autographs have William written above Shakspere . Who but an illiterate per- son would sign his name thus ? In the last two signatures ( being told perhaps that his name ought ...
... signature he writes Wm . for William . The second and third autographs have William written above Shakspere . Who but an illiterate per- son would sign his name thus ? In the last two signatures ( being told perhaps that his name ought ...
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... signatures are all that Shakspere is known to have written ; we ought to add that he prefixed to the last one the following scrawl : зва рия For a long time we puzzled over this . Could it be an attempt to write " 25th of March , " the ...
... signatures are all that Shakspere is known to have written ; we ought to add that he prefixed to the last one the following scrawl : зва рия For a long time we puzzled over this . Could it be an attempt to write " 25th of March , " the ...
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... signatures . The solution of the whole mystery is in the fact that Shakspere was unable to write or even to spell his own name . In 1598 Richard Quiney addressed a letter to him asking for a loan of £ 30 , and the name was written ...
... signatures . The solution of the whole mystery is in the fact that Shakspere was unable to write or even to spell his own name . In 1598 Richard Quiney addressed a letter to him asking for a loan of £ 30 , and the name was written ...
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... ( Signature . ) Shakspear 1614 , ( Cousin's letter . ) Shaksp✶✶✶ 1616 , ( Signatures to Will . ) Shaxper 1616 , ( " Bell and pall for Mr. Shaxpers dawghter , viij . d . " ) If we divide the name between the s and p we have the ...
... ( Signature . ) Shakspear 1614 , ( Cousin's letter . ) Shaksp✶✶✶ 1616 , ( Signatures to Will . ) Shaxper 1616 , ( " Bell and pall for Mr. Shaxpers dawghter , viij . d . " ) If we divide the name between the s and p we have the ...
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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.