One Touch of Shakespeare: Letters of Joseph Crosby to Joseph Parker Norris, 1875-1878Associated University Presses, 1986 - 359 oldal A collection of excerpts from 251 letters written by a shy widower and grocer in Zanesville. Ohio, who, in his time, was one of three Americans who could be called learned and eminent Shakespeareans. They are concerned with book collection, stage production, stage history, the state of the English language in Shakespeare's time, criticism, and interpretation of the text. |
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26. oldal
... told Norris half seriously , he would realize at a cost of some five or six thousand dollars if he inherited money from his father.50 He describes it in detail in letter 69 and elsewhere : . . . The text shall be my own — based chiefly ...
... told Norris half seriously , he would realize at a cost of some five or six thousand dollars if he inherited money from his father.50 He describes it in detail in letter 69 and elsewhere : . . . The text shall be my own — based chiefly ...
29. oldal
... told Crosby in a private letter ( see letter 248 ) that he was the " godfather " of the 900 - page book that grew out of Snider's essays on moral patterns in Shakespeare's plays , but Crosby is not mentioned in the book . Norris's ...
... told Crosby in a private letter ( see letter 248 ) that he was the " godfather " of the 900 - page book that grew out of Snider's essays on moral patterns in Shakespeare's plays , but Crosby is not mentioned in the book . Norris's ...
35. oldal
... told him he could get them for 60 or 75 cents apiece of Macmillan & Co. N. Y. , & that they were sine qua non to an editor . He had no Camb . Edn . , no Heath , nor manya others of the commonest works on Sh . , until he got them from ...
... told him he could get them for 60 or 75 cents apiece of Macmillan & Co. N. Y. , & that they were sine qua non to an editor . He had no Camb . Edn . , no Heath , nor manya others of the commonest works on Sh . , until he got them from ...
38. oldal
... told you , & you wonder how you have come not to see it before , & why so simple a sentence should have worried you so long . I merely name this as a sample : there are lots more just as good : and he not only gives illustrations and ...
... told you , & you wonder how you have come not to see it before , & why so simple a sentence should have worried you so long . I merely name this as a sample : there are lots more just as good : and he not only gives illustrations and ...
40. oldal
... told him plainly that I had something else to do just now . -I am glad you had so enjoyable a visit from Prof. Hart . 13 He sent me his photograph — a most excellent one by the by , made in Canada —- and he looks like a very gentlemanly ...
... told him plainly that I had something else to do just now . -I am glad you had so enjoyable a visit from Prof. Hart . 13 He sent me his photograph — a most excellent one by the by , made in Canada —- and he looks like a very gentlemanly ...
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admirable æsthetic Baconian theory beautiful Bibliopolist Brae C. M. Ingleby Capell character Club Collier conjecture copy course criticism Crosby's Cymbeline dear Norris delighted Dictionary Dr Ingleby Dyce edition editor emendation England English essay F. G. Fleay F. J. Furnivall Falstaff fancy fear Fleay Folger Shakespeare Library Folio Furness Furnivall Furnivall's gentleman give glad Grant White Halliwell Halliwell's Hamlet Henry Clay Folger Hudson Ingleby's interest Joseph Crosby Julius Cæsar kind Knight lady letter look Macbeth meaning never nice Noble Kinsmen notice paper passage play Poet Poet's poor portraits printed pubd published reader recd remember says scholar seems sense sent Sh's Shak Shake Shakespearian Shakspere Shakspere Society Snider speaks speare Steevens tell textual thing thou thought tion told Variorum vols volumes word write written wrote Zanesville
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115. oldal - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
222. oldal - You would have thought the very windows spake, So many greedy looks of young and old Through casements darted their desiring eyes Upon his visage ; and that all the walls With painted imagery had said at once, — " Jesu preserve thee ! welcome, Bolingbroke ! " Whilst he, from one side to the other turning, Bare-headed, lower than his proud steed's neck, Bespake them thus, — " I thank you, countrymen :" And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along.
107. oldal - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
141. oldal - I cannot reconcile my heart to Bertram — a man noble without generosity, and young without truth ; who marries Helen as a coward, and leaves her as a profligate ; when she is dead by his unkindness, sneaks home to a second marriage, is accused by a woman he has wronged, defends himself by falsehood, and is dismissed to happiness.
222. oldal - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas, poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As, in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious ; Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard; no man cried, God save him...
222. oldal - God save him!' No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
200. oldal - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.