William Shakespeare not an imposter, by an English critic [G.H. Townsend].G. Routledge & Company, 1857 - 122 oldal |
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... idea of his extraordinary superiority over all other poets , ancient as well as modern , the author will not have written in vain . LONDON , January 26th , 1857 . " TRUTH may perhaps come to the price of a vi PREFACE .
... idea of his extraordinary superiority over all other poets , ancient as well as modern , the author will not have written in vain . LONDON , January 26th , 1857 . " TRUTH may perhaps come to the price of a vi PREFACE .
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... idea of either the one or the other , can plead nothing save wilful blindness , or hopeless obtuseness , in extenuation of his extraordinary ignorance . No inducement should lead such a one to set himself up as a teacher ; and many ...
... idea of either the one or the other , can plead nothing save wilful blindness , or hopeless obtuseness , in extenuation of his extraordinary ignorance . No inducement should lead such a one to set himself up as a teacher ; and many ...
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... idea must have occurred to many . If , in our schools and colleges , pupils were made to read Shake- speare or Milton , in short passages at a time , just as Homer and Sophocles , or Virgil and Horace , are read ; if each word of the ...
... idea must have occurred to many . If , in our schools and colleges , pupils were made to read Shake- speare or Milton , in short passages at a time , just as Homer and Sophocles , or Virgil and Horace , are read ; if each word of the ...
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... idea , he had become famous by accident , and grew a poet in his own despite . Schlegel in Germany , and Coleridge in this country , first instituted a more genial kind of criticism , and suc ceeded in restoring Shakespeare to the ...
... idea , he had become famous by accident , and grew a poet in his own despite . Schlegel in Germany , and Coleridge in this country , first instituted a more genial kind of criticism , and suc ceeded in restoring Shakespeare to the ...
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... idea of a great dramatic author , and is at once advanced to the throne from which poor William , or what M. Ponsard would call " ' poor Williams , ' " * has been ruthlessly ejected . Lord Bacon was of noble extrac- tion , and had ...
... idea of a great dramatic author , and is at once advanced to the throne from which poor William , or what M. Ponsard would call " ' poor Williams , ' " * has been ruthlessly ejected . Lord Bacon was of noble extrac- tion , and had ...
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admiration Advancement of Learning amongst appeared assailed assertion authorship Bacon and Shakespeare Baconian theory bard Ben Jonson Cæsar careless of fame character comedy composition contemporaries critics CYCLOPÆDIA dead delight doth dramas of Shakespeare Earl of Southampton endeavoured English Essays established Euphorbus evidence fact favour folio edition Francis Bacon friendship genius gentle hath HENRIE CONDELL honour impostor JOHN HEMINGE John Shakespeare Jonson JULIUS CÆSAR King labour letter literary literature Lord Bacon Lordship Lucrece manner memory merits mighty mind Muses NATIONAL nature never noble Notes and Queries pamphlet passages person plays poems poet poet's possessed Price 18 Price One Shilling productions proofs prove published readers reference regarded reputation says scenes Shake Sonnets speare Stratford-upon-Avon testimony thou tion Tobie Matthew Troilus and Cressida truth Twelfth Night Venus and Adonis verses William Henry Smith William Shakespeare word worthy writings written wrote
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107. oldal - I loved the man, and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped.
1. oldal - Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights.
79. oldal - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
96. oldal - ... 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...
106. oldal - 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.
56. oldal - Have gloz^d, but superficially ; not much Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought Unfit to hear moral philosophy. The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of...
100. oldal - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appeare, And make those flights upon the bankes of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James\ But stay, I see thee in the Hemisphere Advanc'd, and made a Constellation there! Shine forth, thou Starre of Poets, and with rage, Or influence, chide, or cheere the drooping Stage; Which, since thy flight from hence, hath mourn'd like night, And despaires day, but for thy Volumes light.
70. oldal - The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutored lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I have done is yours, what I have to do is yours ; being part in all I have, devoted yours. Were my worth greater my duty would show greater : meantime, as it is, it is bound to your Lordship, to whom I wish long life, still lengthened with all happiness. Your Lordship's in all duty, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
99. oldal - Yet must I not give nature all ; thy art, My gentle SHAKESPEARE, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion : and, that he 278 Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
99. oldal - Accius, him of Cordova dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread, And shake a stage; or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.