Shakspere: His Times and ContemporariesG. Kershaw and son, 1852 - 224 pages |
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... never purchase books without sacrificing some other of the few comforts of life which a poor man enjoys , —the men who love Literature as a benignant goddess , whose coun- tenance is surrounded by a holy halo , like the Christ of some ...
... never purchase books without sacrificing some other of the few comforts of life which a poor man enjoys , —the men who love Literature as a benignant goddess , whose coun- tenance is surrounded by a holy halo , like the Christ of some ...
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... never to write a book unless we have first found the want of such a one ourselves . I have acted upon this maxim , having often found the want of a book like the present ; and the memorandums from which the present volume is compiled ...
... never to write a book unless we have first found the want of such a one ourselves . I have acted upon this maxim , having often found the want of a book like the present ; and the memorandums from which the present volume is compiled ...
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... Never , perhaps , did man possess so deep an insight into the workings of the human heart ; never had man a finer perception of the good , the beautiful , and the true , than the player Shakspere . Most assuredly we possess no land ...
... Never , perhaps , did man possess so deep an insight into the workings of the human heart ; never had man a finer perception of the good , the beautiful , and the true , than the player Shakspere . Most assuredly we possess no land ...
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... never be the true critics of the inspired Shakspere : he never wrote for such as them . But ages after these poor earthworms have gone to their last account ; when enfranchised Labour shall sing his holy peans where now the night ...
... never be the true critics of the inspired Shakspere : he never wrote for such as them . But ages after these poor earthworms have gone to their last account ; when enfranchised Labour shall sing his holy peans where now the night ...
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... Superstition - in retribution of an imaginary crime , which never did or can exist ! - Then again , the Ghost , in " Hamlet " -performed by the " " immortal bard himself - how true an embodiment of the INTRODUCTION . 15.
... Superstition - in retribution of an imaginary crime , which never did or can exist ! - Then again , the Ghost , in " Hamlet " -performed by the " " immortal bard himself - how true an embodiment of the INTRODUCTION . 15.
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Page 11 - His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Page 15 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? revenge : If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute ; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Page 87 - Lawn as white as driven snow ; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses ; Masks for faces and for noses ; Bugle bracelet, necklace amber, Perfume for a lady's chamber ; Golden quoifs and stomachers, For my lads to give their dears: Pins and poking-sticks of steel. What maids lack from head to heel: Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy; Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry : Come buy.
Page 165 - Ah Ben ! Say how or .when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad? And yet each verse of thine Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine.
Page 129 - That would not let me sleep : methought, I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.* Rashly, And prais'd be rashness for it, — Let us know, Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall : and that should teach us. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.* Hor.
Page 213 - King Henry, making a mask at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch...
Page 66 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem...
Page 171 - I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your Lordship, nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burden.
Page 139 - My prime of youth is but a frost of cares; My feast of joy is but a dish of pain; My crop of corn is but a field of tares; And all my good is but vain hope of gain; The day is fled, and yet I saw no sun; And now I live, and now my life is done!
Page 21 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.