One Touch of Shakespeare: Letters of Joseph Crosby to Joseph Parker Norris, 1875-1878Associated University Presses, 1986 - 359 páginas A collection of excerpts from 251 letters written by a shy widower and grocer in Zanesville. Ohio, who, in his time, was one of three Americans who could be called learned and eminent Shakespeareans. They are concerned with book collection, stage production, stage history, the state of the English language in Shakespeare's time, criticism, and interpretation of the text. |
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... Hamlet ( 1877 ) , and he revised the proofs of John S. Hart's life of Shakespeare after Hart's death ( see letter 246 ) . He made an important contribution to Henry N. Hudson's second Shakespeare edition , the Harvard ( 1880-81 ) , by ...
... Hamlet ( 1877 ) , and he revised the proofs of John S. Hart's life of Shakespeare after Hart's death ( see letter 246 ) . He made an important contribution to Henry N. Hudson's second Shakespeare edition , the Harvard ( 1880-81 ) , by ...
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... Hamlet to H. N. Hudson , who therefore had a prior right in them ( 42 ) . Crosby did some hunting up of references for Furness and some searching out of actors ' interpretations ( 146 ) . Furness later disparaged Crosby's work in a ...
... Hamlet to H. N. Hudson , who therefore had a prior right in them ( 42 ) . Crosby did some hunting up of references for Furness and some searching out of actors ' interpretations ( 146 ) . Furness later disparaged Crosby's work in a ...
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... Hamlet , & c . — I told him he could get them for 60 or 75 cents apiece of Macmillan & Co. N. Y. , & that they were sine qua non to an editor . He had no Camb . Edn . , no Heath , nor manya others of the commonest works on Sh . , until ...
... Hamlet , & c . — I told him he could get them for 60 or 75 cents apiece of Macmillan & Co. N. Y. , & that they were sine qua non to an editor . He had no Camb . Edn . , no Heath , nor manya others of the commonest works on Sh . , until ...
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... Hamlet says , " Words , Words , Words " ; but when you attempt to fish out the " matter , my lord , which you are reading , " you find it " Vox , et præterea nihil . " — I am delighted with the 3 Quarto vols . from the New Sh . Soc . Mr ...
... Hamlet says , " Words , Words , Words " ; but when you attempt to fish out the " matter , my lord , which you are reading , " you find it " Vox , et præterea nihil . " — I am delighted with the 3 Quarto vols . from the New Sh . Soc . Mr ...
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... Hamlet " by E. R. Russell ; the other O'Carroll's Address to a Debating Society of a College in Ireland.2 You probably have these also : and I think you will be pleased with Russell's tract . His analysis of the character of Hamlet is ...
... Hamlet " by E. R. Russell ; the other O'Carroll's Address to a Debating Society of a College in Ireland.2 You probably have these also : and I think you will be pleased with Russell's tract . His analysis of the character of Hamlet is ...
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Página 115 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Página 222 - You would have thought the very windows spake, So many greedy looks of young and old Through casements darted their desiring eyes Upon his visage ; and that all the walls With painted imagery had said at once, — " Jesu preserve thee ! welcome, Bolingbroke ! " Whilst he, from one side to the other turning, Bare-headed, lower than his proud steed's neck, Bespake them thus, — " I thank you, countrymen :" And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along.
Página 107 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Página 141 - I cannot reconcile my heart to Bertram — a man noble without generosity, and young without truth ; who marries Helen as a coward, and leaves her as a profligate ; when she is dead by his unkindness, sneaks home to a second marriage, is accused by a woman he has wronged, defends himself by falsehood, and is dismissed to happiness.
Página 222 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas, poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As, in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious ; Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard; no man cried, God save him...
Página 222 - God save him!' No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Página 200 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.