Shakspeare and His TimesHarper, 1852 - 360 pages |
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... death -Aubrey represents him to have been the son of a butcher . At such a distance of time , recollections hand- ed down through two or three generations might have be- come somewhat confused in the memory of Shakspeare's fellow ...
... death -Aubrey represents him to have been the son of a butcher . At such a distance of time , recollections hand- ed down through two or three generations might have be- come somewhat confused in the memory of Shakspeare's fellow ...
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... death , even in an animal , and striving to render it imposing or pathetic ? Who can not picture to himself the scholar of thirteen or fourteen years of age , with his head full of his first literary attain- ments , and his mind ...
... death , even in an animal , and striving to render it imposing or pathetic ? Who can not picture to himself the scholar of thirteen or fourteen years of age , with his head full of his first literary attain- ments , and his mind ...
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... death , and were sanctioned by such high authority , that the young king , Edward VI . , himself composed a piece against the Papists , entitled " The Whore of Babylon ; " and Queen Mary , in her turn , commanded the performance , in ...
... death , and were sanctioned by such high authority , that the young king , Edward VI . , himself composed a piece against the Papists , entitled " The Whore of Babylon ; " and Queen Mary , in her turn , commanded the performance , in ...
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... death for the crime of having seduced a young girl whom he intended to marry , him- self attempts to seduce Isabella , the sister of Claudio , by promising her brother's pardon as a recompense for her own dishonor ; and when , by ...
... death for the crime of having seduced a young girl whom he intended to marry , him- self attempts to seduce Isabella , the sister of Claudio , by promising her brother's pardon as a recompense for her own dishonor ; and when , by ...
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... death , and to expose his daughter ; this child , left to perish on the shore of Bohemia , but saved by a shepherd from her cruel fate , becomes , after sixteen years have elapsed , a marvelous beauty , and is beloved by the heir to the ...
... death , and to expose his daughter ; this child , left to perish on the shore of Bohemia , but saved by a shepherd from her cruel fate , becomes , after sixteen years have elapsed , a marvelous beauty , and is beloved by the heir to the ...
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Page 283 - Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that...
Page 274 - O, that the slave had forty thousand lives ! One is too poor, too weak for my revenge. Now do I see 'tis true. Look here, lago ; All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven : 'Tis gone. Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell ! Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne To tyrannous hate ! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, For 'tis of aspics
Page 283 - No more of that ; — I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Page 100 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 38 - Twas Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
Page 322 - The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster...
Page 40 - Come, my Corinna, come; and, coming, mark How each field turns a street, each street a park Made green and trimm'd with trees: see how Devotion gives each house a bough Or branch: each porch, each door, ere this An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of white-thorn neatly interwove; As if here were those cooler shades of love.
Page 109 - Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones And cursed be he that moves my bones.
Page 40 - CORINNA'S GOING A-MAYING Get up, get up for shame! The blooming morn Upon her wings presents the god unshorn. See how Aurora throws her fair, Fresh-quilted colors through the air. Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see The dew bespangling herb and tree!
Page 163 - O my love! my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.