Shakespeare's Autobiographical Poems: Being His Sonnets Clearly Developed: with His Character Drawn Chiefly from His WorksJ. Bohn, 1838 - 306 էջ |
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... brought forward as evidences that it is possible for poets , and poets of a high order , to write nothing in discordance , as far as we are enabled to judge , with their lives . But dramatic writers , however honest they may be , are ...
... brought forward as evidences that it is possible for poets , and poets of a high order , to write nothing in discordance , as far as we are enabled to judge , with their lives . But dramatic writers , however honest they may be , are ...
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... brought to us a single anecdote of his youth in the country , except that of his having been a deer - stealer ; and that has been amply refuted by Malone , as far as Sir Thomas Lucy's deer were concerned . An important question , both ...
... brought to us a single anecdote of his youth in the country , except that of his having been a deer - stealer ; and that has been amply refuted by Malone , as far as Sir Thomas Lucy's deer were concerned . An important question , both ...
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... , can hardly be conceived ; but it was first brought forward as a mere sketch , compared with its after appearance . Is it at all unlikely that the first sketch was popular , and written when Shakespeare was four - and - twenty 12 HIS ...
... , can hardly be conceived ; but it was first brought forward as a mere sketch , compared with its after appearance . Is it at all unlikely that the first sketch was popular , and written when Shakespeare was four - and - twenty 12 HIS ...
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... brought on the stage with applause sufficient to excite envy against the author , when he was about four - and - twenty . This will be found important in the second period of his life . Second , Shakespeare , while in a lawyer's office ...
... brought on the stage with applause sufficient to excite envy against the author , when he was about four - and - twenty . This will be found important in the second period of his life . Second , Shakespeare , while in a lawyer's office ...
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... brought to me , in spite of their numerous passages of beauty and their descrip- tive power , I should certainly conclude they were the works of a youth ; and by no means of so great pro- mise of future excellence as the Endymion of ...
... brought to me , in spite of their numerous passages of beauty and their descrip- tive power , I should certainly conclude they were the works of a youth ; and by no means of so great pro- mise of future excellence as the Endymion of ...
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Shakespeare's Autobiographical Poems: Being His Sonnets Clearly Developed ... Charles Armitage Brown Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1838 |
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Էջ 152 - take The winds of March with beauty; violets, dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength." A hunting squire would by no means despise the conversation about hounds in the
Էջ 86 - O for my sake, do thou 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. Pity me then.
Էջ 174 - Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell I That my keen knife see not the wound it makes; Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold .'" The learned lexicographer first finds fault with the word dun, because
Էջ 264 - and his practical morality took two opposite roads. It is spoken by one of the young lords, while they are canvassing the conduct of Bertram: " The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults
Էջ 63 - Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick, Yet with my nobler reason, 'gainst my fury Do I take part: the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown farther. Go, release them, Ariel.
Էջ 188 - At a fair Vestal, throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon ; And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden-meditation, fancy-free.
Էջ 30 - of Shakespeare as a dramatist, his words are these: " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy, among the Latins; so Shakespeare, among the English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage: for comedy, witness his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Loves
Էջ 149 - Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ?" In addition to what I have said of the great study requisite to the formation of Shakespeare's works, the probability that, when a lad, he attempted to adapt Seneca's tragedies, or that he imitated them
Էջ 61 - O benefit of ill! now I find true That better is by evil still made better; And ruin'd love, when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater. So I return rebuked to my content, And gain by ill, thrice more than I have spent.