William Shakspere: A Biography, Libro 2C. Knight and Company, 1843 - 542 páginas |
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... scene , if not truth ; and it is easy to comprehend how the playful friendship of a handsome maiden for an interesting boy , some seven years younger , might grow into a dangerous affection . Assuredly , with neigh- bourly intercourse ...
... scene , if not truth ; and it is easy to comprehend how the playful friendship of a handsome maiden for an interesting boy , some seven years younger , might grow into a dangerous affection . Assuredly , with neigh- bourly intercourse ...
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... scene of a Whitsun - Ale at Bidford . Aubrey has given a sensible account of such a festivity : - " There were no rates for the poor in my grandfather's days ; but for Kingston St. Michael ( no small parish ) the Church - Ale of ...
... scene of a Whitsun - Ale at Bidford . Aubrey has given a sensible account of such a festivity : - " There were no rates for the poor in my grandfather's days ; but for Kingston St. Michael ( no small parish ) the Church - Ale of ...
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... the people * Winter's Tale , Act Iv . , Scene 111 . Two Gentlemen of Verona , Act Iv . , Sc . III , Pericles , Act 1 . would be struggling to give utterance to its thoughts ,. [ Bidford Bridge . ] [ Clopton House . ] 70.
... the people * Winter's Tale , Act Iv . , Scene 111 . Two Gentlemen of Verona , Act Iv . , Sc . III , Pericles , Act 1 . would be struggling to give utterance to its thoughts ,. [ Bidford Bridge . ] [ Clopton House . ] 70.
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... scenes of the Winter's Tale is that of the sheep - shearing , in which we have the more poetical shepherd - queen . There is a minuteness of circum- stance amidst the exquisite poetry of this scene which shows that it must have been ...
... scenes of the Winter's Tale is that of the sheep - shearing , in which we have the more poetical shepherd - queen . There is a minuteness of circum- stance amidst the exquisite poetry of this scene which shows that it must have been ...
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... nor witch hath power to charm : So hallow'd and so gracious is the time . " * Winter's Tale . + William Hone's Ancient Mysteries , ' p . 92 . Hamlet , Act 1. , Scene 1 . Surely it is the poet himself who adds , in 73 A BIOGRAPHY .
... nor witch hath power to charm : So hallow'd and so gracious is the time . " * Winter's Tale . + William Hone's Ancient Mysteries , ' p . 92 . Hamlet , Act 1. , Scene 1 . Surely it is the poet himself who adds , in 73 A BIOGRAPHY .
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Página 523 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Página 376 - Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, — and then my state (Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate ; For thy sweet love remembered, such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Página 304 - 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.
Página 240 - Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Página 203 - O fellow, come, the song we had last night: Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain: The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Página 197 - The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait...
Página 264 - Hear him but reason in divinity, And, all-admiring, with an inward wish You would desire the king were made a prelate...
Página 263 - And hereabouts he dwells, which late I noted In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows, Culling of simples; meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones: And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator...
Página 224 - I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear With hounds of Sparta : never did I hear Such gallant chiding ; for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry : I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
Página 425 - This castle hath a pleasant seat ; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. Ban. This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze.