New Illustrations of the Life, Studies, and Writings of Shakespeare, 1. köideJ. B. Nichols and Son, 1845 |
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... occur in many copious lists of surnames of Englishmen of the period be- fore that reign ; and it does occur in the reign of King Henry the Fourth . During the fifteenth century our means of arriving at genealogical knowledge are very ...
... occur in many copious lists of surnames of Englishmen of the period be- fore that reign ; and it does occur in the reign of King Henry the Fourth . During the fifteenth century our means of arriving at genealogical knowledge are very ...
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... occurs not unfrequently as the surname of persons in the counties of Warwick and Worcester . A Walter de Shakenshaft was Sheriff of Worcestershire under the Earl of Warwick , in the 15th of Edward the Third . A Maurice Drawsword appears ...
... occurs not unfrequently as the surname of persons in the counties of Warwick and Worcester . A Walter de Shakenshaft was Sheriff of Worcestershire under the Earl of Warwick , in the 15th of Edward the Third . A Maurice Drawsword appears ...
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... occurs in the Valor Ecclesias- ticus of the 26th of King Henry the Eighth , as bailiff to the nuns of the neighbouring priory of Wroxhall , and collec- tor of their rents , with a fee of 40 shillings a year . This answers to the year ...
... occurs in the Valor Ecclesias- ticus of the 26th of King Henry the Eighth , as bailiff to the nuns of the neighbouring priory of Wroxhall , and collec- tor of their rents , with a fee of 40 shillings a year . This answers to the year ...
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... occur in the Rowington branch as well as in that which was planted at Wroxhall . Mr. Malone was unquestionably right when he delivered his opinion , founded on the examination of many documents , C that there was no Shakespeare at ...
... occur in the Rowington branch as well as in that which was planted at Wroxhall . Mr. Malone was unquestionably right when he delivered his opinion , founded on the examination of many documents , C that there was no Shakespeare at ...
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... occurs , it will be seen , before his marriage . Possibly this may have been the occupation in which he was at first en- gaged , and which may have brought him to Stratford . After his marriage he is not found engaged in any branch of ...
... occurs , it will be seen , before his marriage . Possibly this may have been the occupation in which he was at first en- gaged , and which may have brought him to Stratford . After his marriage he is not found engaged in any branch of ...
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Page 288 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Page 143 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or ou : No occupation ; all men idle, all, — And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Page 129 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 238 - FROM fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory : But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament, And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content, And, tender churl, mak'st...
Page 403 - 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.
Page 59 - Hugh, persuade me not ; I will make a Star-chamber matter of it : if he were twenty sir John Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, esquire. Slen. In the county of Gloster, justice of peace, and coram.
Page 339 - They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 175 - O, it is monstrous! monstrous! Methought, the billows spoke, and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Prosper; it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i" the ooze is bedded ; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded.
Page 238 - Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest, Now is the time that face should form another, Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest, Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother. For where is she so fair whose uneared womb Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
Page 317 - Touching musical harmony, whether by instrument or by voice, it being but of high and low in sounds a due proportionable disposition ; such notwithstanding is the force thereof, and so pleasing effects it hath in that very part of man which is most divine, that some have been thereby induced to think that the soul itself by nature is or hath in it harmony.