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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... look at people , & imagine them perfectly happy . Yet who knows but God , how they feel , or where the skeleton is concealed ? " At all events , as late as the spring of 1884 Crosby's handwriting was as bold and his mind as lucid as in ...
... look at people , & imagine them perfectly happy . Yet who knows but God , how they feel , or where the skeleton is concealed ? " At all events , as late as the spring of 1884 Crosby's handwriting was as bold and his mind as lucid as in ...
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... looks very æsthetical , as German books on Sh . gener- ally are . It would be a hard book to review properly ; I don't mean by * 11 : Letter no . eleven from the Folger MS . Y.c. 1372. The boldface number preceding the date of each ...
... looks very æsthetical , as German books on Sh . gener- ally are . It would be a hard book to review properly ; I don't mean by * 11 : Letter no . eleven from the Folger MS . Y.c. 1372. The boldface number preceding the date of each ...
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... look on the result of my 10 years work of collecting with a good degree of self - complacency . I have nearly , now , 100 editions of the Com- plete Works , and not a scrabby one among them , except that 1773 copy . Even the old 1733 ...
... look on the result of my 10 years work of collecting with a good degree of self - complacency . I have nearly , now , 100 editions of the Com- plete Works , and not a scrabby one among them , except that 1773 copy . Even the old 1733 ...
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... looks like a very gentlemanly & well - informed person . As you say , a great many of these Professors think they know " all about Shakespeare , " when if you come to pin them down to any particular point , they are often fishy14 in ...
... looks like a very gentlemanly & well - informed person . As you say , a great many of these Professors think they know " all about Shakespeare , " when if you come to pin them down to any particular point , they are often fishy14 in ...
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... look like either one ; ergo , the Geo . Washington may be Shakespeare . The way you want to state your argument , I think , is ; that no fair argument can be drawn against the authenticity of the Becker Mask , because it bears no ...
... look like either one ; ergo , the Geo . Washington may be Shakespeare . The way you want to state your argument , I think , is ; that no fair argument can be drawn against the authenticity of the Becker Mask , because it bears no ...
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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.