Shakspeare's Knowledge and Use of the BibleFrom the author's preface: "I am not aware that the attempt made in this small volume has been anticipated in any other. Even the notes of critics upon Shakespeare, superfluously full in pointing out his obligations, real or supposed, to secular authors, are singularly meagre in the references which they make to the Holy Scriptures. And yet how abundant is the room for such reference, and how much it may conduce to the mutual illustration of the two books, which as Christians and as Britons we should value most, will be seen, I trust, upon every page of the Second Part of the following dissertation." A reprint of the third edition of 1880, by Charles Wordsworth, then the Bishop of St. Andrews and Fellow of Winchester College. |
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Page 190
... observe that anciently the interchange of rings was a custom which belonged to the espousals , rather than to the ... observation which may throw light , perhaps , upon the peculiar circum- stances of Shakspeare's own nuptials , as made ...
... observe that anciently the interchange of rings was a custom which belonged to the espousals , rather than to the ... observation which may throw light , perhaps , upon the peculiar circum- stances of Shakspeare's own nuptials , as made ...
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... observe , by the way , that the expression ' full of bread ' affords a remarkable instance of Shakspeare's intimate ... observation of Mr. M. Mason , that though this speech of Hamlet's , as Johnson observes , is horrible indeed , yet ...
... observe , by the way , that the expression ' full of bread ' affords a remarkable instance of Shakspeare's intimate ... observation of Mr. M. Mason , that though this speech of Hamlet's , as Johnson observes , is horrible indeed , yet ...
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... observed by Mrs. Jameson that ' Margaret of Anjou , as exhibited in the 2nd and 3rd Pts . of K. Henry VI . , is a dramatic portrait of considerable truth and vigour and consistency ; but she is not one of Shakspeare's women . ' Upon the ...
... observed by Mrs. Jameson that ' Margaret of Anjou , as exhibited in the 2nd and 3rd Pts . of K. Henry VI . , is a dramatic portrait of considerable truth and vigour and consistency ; but she is not one of Shakspeare's women . ' Upon the ...
Contents
GENERAL INTRODUCTION | 1 |
CHAPTER I | 9 |
Of PoliticsPeace and | 15 |
Copyright | |
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