Airy Nothings: Or, What You WillSturgis & Walton Company, 1917 - 142 páginas |
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... judge of the world . And in like man- ner it is possible to appraise every poet and dramatist since the reign of King James solely by what he has written or said concerning Wil- liam Shakespeare . It has been necessary for me , in ...
... judge of the world . And in like man- ner it is possible to appraise every poet and dramatist since the reign of King James solely by what he has written or said concerning Wil- liam Shakespeare . It has been necessary for me , in ...
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... judge no woman has yet sounded the deeps of Juliet's nature ; Rosalind eludes the cleverest of her imitators ; Viola re- mains the loveliest heroine that ever graced a printed page . VI But what , as Mr. Shaw once remarked anent our ...
... judge no woman has yet sounded the deeps of Juliet's nature ; Rosalind eludes the cleverest of her imitators ; Viola re- mains the loveliest heroine that ever graced a printed page . VI But what , as Mr. Shaw once remarked anent our ...
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... Judge Nathaniel Holmes , with a book of no fewer than 696 pages , filled with denunciations of the vagabond William Shake- speare , who , though he could scarcely write his own name and knew no other ambition than that of money ...
... Judge Nathaniel Holmes , with a book of no fewer than 696 pages , filled with denunciations of the vagabond William Shake- speare , who , though he could scarcely write his own name and knew no other ambition than that of money ...
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... sort of arbitrary pretension , it would be fair to judge of an author's ele- gance by the measurement of his words , and ' the substitution of foreign circumlocutions ( with no precise associations 55 OR WHAT YOU WILL.
... sort of arbitrary pretension , it would be fair to judge of an author's ele- gance by the measurement of his words , and ' the substitution of foreign circumlocutions ( with no precise associations 55 OR WHAT YOU WILL.
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... judge of Shakespeare for himself as he would of a friend , his mind unbefogged by the casual comments of some high - school instructor concerning Hamlet , Othello , Lear or the man himself . Mr. Gouy- erneur Morris knows Conrad and says ...
... judge of Shakespeare for himself as he would of a friend , his mind unbefogged by the casual comments of some high - school instructor concerning Hamlet , Othello , Lear or the man himself . Mr. Gouy- erneur Morris knows Conrad and says ...
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1817 LIBRARIES adventures Anne Hathaway Anon beauty Ben Jonson born Boswell Boswell's Cæsar character CHIGAN Claudius comedy critics cup of sack Dark Lady dedicated dramatist DRAYTON dreams Earl of Pembroke edition EDWARD Elizabethan England eyes fair Falstaff FLETCHER FLORIO fool FRANCIS Hamlet hand hear heart Helen Henry HERBERT honour JONSON Julius Cæsar Kemp King kiss Lear lips literature living Lord Love's Labour's Lost LYLY Macbeth maid Marlowe Marlowe's married Mary Fitton Masefield MICHIGAN Mistress Fitton never Nicholas Rowe night Othello personality phrases play poet praise prithee professor Queen quote RALEIGH SHAKESPEARE to CHETTLE Shaw Shaw's Sir Herbert Tree Sir Sidney Lee Sonnets soul Southampton speak speare speare's style sweet Tamburlaine tell thee Thomas Tyler Thorpe thou art thou hast to-day tragedy twas UNIVE verses VERSITY WILLIAM KEMP William Shakespeare wooed words write young
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Página 21 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Página 39 - I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe; Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain, Oft turning others' leaves, to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburned brain.
Página 27 - The moon shines bright : in such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees And they did make no noise, in such a night Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Página 102 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question}: of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Página 10 - How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Página 129 - Or the nard in the fire ? Or have tasted the bag of the bee ? O so white, O so soft, O so sweet is she!
Página 123 - HENCE, all you vain delights. As short as are the nights, Wherein you spend your folly: There's nought in this life sweet If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy...
Página 17 - I have always maintained, that any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity. Of Mr. Boswell's truth I have not the least suspicion, because I am sure he could invent nothing of this kind. The true title of this part of his work is, A Dialogue between a Green-goose and a Hero.
Página 122 - At cards for kisses; Cupid paid. He stakes his quiver, bow and arrows, His Mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then, down he throws The coral of his lip, the rose Growing...
Página 125 - My Love in her attire doth show her wit, It doth so well become her : For every season she hath dressings fit, For Winter, Spring, and Summer. No beauty she doth miss When all her robes are on : But Beauty's self she is When all her robes are gone.