New-Shakespeareana, Volumes 1-2Unionist-Gazette Association., 1902 |
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... ( Original in the Royal Archives , Copenhagen . ) In this is an entry in the year 1585 of a disbursement of 4 skill- ing to repair a board fence between the premises of Lauritz , the town clerk and the yard of the Town Hall " which the ...
... ( Original in the Royal Archives , Copenhagen . ) In this is an entry in the year 1585 of a disbursement of 4 skill- ing to repair a board fence between the premises of Lauritz , the town clerk and the yard of the Town Hall " which the ...
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... original by crossing the ocean , it seems to me that Mr. Lee's performances justify me in writing it . New York , April 19 . APPLETON MORGAN , President of The New York Shakespeare Society . TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN - Sir : The ...
... original by crossing the ocean , it seems to me that Mr. Lee's performances justify me in writing it . New York , April 19 . APPLETON MORGAN , President of The New York Shakespeare Society . TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN - Sir : The ...
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... originals . It is pleasant to know , over Mr. Lee's own signature , that his " researches into the Life and work of Shakespeare " have met " so generous a reception in the United States . " As any little favors like that our people are ...
... originals . It is pleasant to know , over Mr. Lee's own signature , that his " researches into the Life and work of Shakespeare " have met " so generous a reception in the United States . " As any little favors like that our people are ...
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... original . ( 5 ) distinction , which betrayeth the dif- ferenced sounds and sorce in letters by some within figure or accent . ( 6 ) enfranchisement , which directeth the right writing of all incorporated foreign words . ( 7 ) ...
... original . ( 5 ) distinction , which betrayeth the dif- ferenced sounds and sorce in letters by some within figure or accent . ( 6 ) enfranchisement , which directeth the right writing of all incorporated foreign words . ( 7 ) ...
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... original calf , and , save for a portion of the outer margin of the title page having been cut off , and fragments of the text from four pages found to be lacking the copy , was perfect , the portrait after Droeshout and Ben Jonson's ...
... original calf , and , save for a portion of the outer margin of the title page having been cut off , and fragments of the text from four pages found to be lacking the copy , was perfect , the portrait after Droeshout and Ben Jonson's ...
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Page 78 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 77 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 77 - If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions...
Page 12 - His mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 24 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs, The cover of the wings of grasshoppers, <*> The traces of the smallest spider's web, The collars of the moonshine's...
Page 91 - ... ordain'd otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envie his friends the office of their care and paine...
Page 79 - 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...
Page 51 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 14 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 14 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, " Would he had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.