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... Shakspere Sonnets literature , English and German . It is forrowful to confider of how fmall worth the contribution I make to the knowledge of these poems is , in proportion to the time and pains bestowed . To render Shakspere's meaning ...
... Shakspere Sonnets literature , English and German . It is forrowful to confider of how fmall worth the contribution I make to the knowledge of these poems is , in proportion to the time and pains bestowed . To render Shakspere's meaning ...
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... Shakspere's mistress . It remained for the editors and critics of the second half of the century to discover that the greater number were written for a young man . To a careful reader of the original it needed small research to ...
... Shakspere's mistress . It remained for the editors and critics of the second half of the century to discover that the greater number were written for a young man . To a careful reader of the original it needed small research to ...
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... Shakspere's life ( Dyce ) ; the main body of these poems may ftill be regarded as mere exercises of the fancy . Such an explanation of the Sonnets has the merit of fimplicity ; it unties no knots but cuts all at a blow ; if the ...
... Shakspere's life ( Dyce ) ; the main body of these poems may ftill be regarded as mere exercises of the fancy . Such an explanation of the Sonnets has the merit of fimplicity ; it unties no knots but cuts all at a blow ; if the ...
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... Shakspere's life , allow that they form a connected poem , or at most two connected poems , and these , they affure us , are of deeper fignificance than any mere poetical exercises can be . They form a ftupendous allegory ; they exprefs ...
... Shakspere's life , allow that they form a connected poem , or at most two connected poems , and these , they affure us , are of deeper fignificance than any mere poetical exercises can be . They form a ftupendous allegory ; they exprefs ...
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... Shakspere would fo have rendered extravagant homage to a boy patron ? Is it likely that one , who so deeply felt the moral order of the world , would have yielded , as the poems ... Shakspere's thirty - fifth year ; here INTRODUCTION . xix.
... Shakspere would fo have rendered extravagant homage to a boy patron ? Is it likely that one , who so deeply felt the moral order of the world , would have yielded , as the poems ... Shakspere's thirty - fifth year ; here INTRODUCTION . xix.
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abſence againſt Antony & Cleopatra beauty's becauſe beft beſt bleſſed breaſt cloſe Compare Cymbeline dear death defire doft thou doth fair falſe fame fecond feems fhall fince fing firſt fome forrow foul freſh ftill fuch fuggefts fummer glaſs grace hath heart heaven himſelf increaſe itſelf laſt lines live look loſe love's Malone mayſt Meaſure miſtreſs moſt Muſe muſt myſelf night paffion paſt perfons pleaſe pleaſure praiſe preſent propoſes Quarto reaſon Romeo & Juliet roſe ſay ſee ſeem ſeen ſenſe ſhadow Shakſpere Shakſpere's ſhall ſhalt ſhame ſhe ſhould ſhow ſkill ſome Sonnet Sonnet 39 ſpeak ſpirit ſtand ſtars ſtate ſtay ſtill ſtore ſtrong ſuch ſweet thee themſelves theſe thine eye thoſe thou art thou doft thought thy fweet thy love thyſelf Time's treaſure true truth uſe Venus & Adonis verſe waſte Whilft whoſe wilt wiſh worth yourſelf youth
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Page 116 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O no ; it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests, and is never shaken ; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 64 - When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away.
Page 107 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
Page 104 - To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers...
Page 146 - So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.
Page 15 - ... even by the self-same sky, Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease, And wear their brave state out of memory ; Then the conceit of this inconstant stay Sets you most rich in youth before my sight, Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay, To change your day of youth to sullied night ; And all in war with Time for love of you, As he takes from you, I engraft you new.
Page 87 - Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing, And like enough thou know'st thy estimate: The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing; My bonds in thee are all determinate. For how do I hold thee but by thy granting? And for that riches where is my deserving?
Page 18 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd...
Page 130 - Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
Page 110 - These blenches gave my heart another youth, And worse essays proved thee my best of love. Now all is done, have what shall have no end: Mine appetite I never more will grind On newer proof, to try an older friend, A god in love, to whom I am confined. Then give me welcome, next my heaven the best, Even to thy pure and most most loving breast.