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... and fiercest of intellectual aristocrats . The son of a shoemaker , and born in 1564 , his unmistakable genius seems to have gained him friends , who looked after his early education , and 2 ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE . 25.
... and fiercest of intellectual aristocrats . The son of a shoemaker , and born in 1564 , his unmistakable genius seems to have gained him friends , who looked after his early education , and 2 ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE . 25.
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... seems to say , with his truculent hero , " This is my mind , and I will have it so . " This self - asserting intellectual inso- lence is accompanied by an unwearied energy , which half redeems the bombast into which it runs , or rather ...
... seems to say , with his truculent hero , " This is my mind , and I will have it so . " This self - asserting intellectual inso- lence is accompanied by an unwearied energy , which half redeems the bombast into which it runs , or rather ...
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... seems to have served an apprenticeship ; for he altered , amended , and added to the dramas of others before he produced any himself . Between the year 1591 , or thereabouts , and the year 1613 , or thereabouts , he wrote over thirty ...
... seems to have served an apprenticeship ; for he altered , amended , and added to the dramas of others before he produced any himself . Between the year 1591 , or thereabouts , and the year 1613 , or thereabouts , he wrote over thirty ...
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Edwin Percy Whipple. of whose composition it is hardly possible to fix . He seems to have made yearly visits to Stratford , where his wife and children resided , and to have invested money there as he increased in wealth . Mr. Emerson ...
Edwin Percy Whipple. of whose composition it is hardly possible to fix . He seems to have made yearly visits to Stratford , where his wife and children resided , and to have invested money there as he increased in wealth . Mr. Emerson ...
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... seems , they were written to illustrate , or rather from which the plays grow , as from so many roots . But causes are to be measured by effects ; the effects here are marvellous structures of genius ; and these do not shoot up from the ...
... seems , they were written to illustrate , or rather from which the plays grow , as from so many roots . But causes are to be measured by effects ; the effects here are marvellous structures of genius ; and these do not shoot up from the ...
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Page 98 - QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright.
Page 73 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.
Page 361 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 361 - Wherefore, that here we may briefly end : of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 58 - 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.
Page 99 - Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright. Lay thy bow of pearl apart And thy crystal-shining quiver; Give unto the flying hart Space, to breathe, how short soever: Thou that mak'st a day of night, Goddess excellently bright.
Page 275 - Queen ; At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept, And from thenceforth those graces were not seen, For they this Queen attended ; in whose stead Oblivion laid him down on Laura's hearse.
Page 303 - I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years ; but it was the justest censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years.
Page 202 - The more they on it stare. But her sad eyes, still fastened on the ground, Are governed with goodly modesty That suffers not one look to glance away, 'Which may let in a little thought unsound.
Page 355 - There is no learning that this man hath not searched into, nothing too hard for his understanding : this man, indeed, deserves the name of an author : his books will get reverence by age, for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be like this, they shall last till the last fire shall consume all learning.