Meliora, 7–8. köidePartridge & Company, 1865 |
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... receiving the best education the town afforded , and was engaged in the school - lads ' ordinary tasks and sports . Here what the scho- larly Jonson , trained under Camden at Westminster , called his little Latin and less Greek ' were ...
... receiving the best education the town afforded , and was engaged in the school - lads ' ordinary tasks and sports . Here what the scho- larly Jonson , trained under Camden at Westminster , called his little Latin and less Greek ' were ...
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... received from him a blot in his papers . ' * * * ' His wit can no more lie hid than it could be lost , ' and the purchaser is advised to read him , therefore , again and again . ' On the title there is a portrait by Martin Droeshout , a ...
... received from him a blot in his papers . ' * * * ' His wit can no more lie hid than it could be lost , ' and the purchaser is advised to read him , therefore , again and again . ' On the title there is a portrait by Martin Droeshout , a ...
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... received into the playhouse as a servitor , and by this means he had an opportunity to be what he afterwards proved . He was the best of his family , but the male line is extinguished ; not one for fear of the curse abovesaid dare touch ...
... received into the playhouse as a servitor , and by this means he had an opportunity to be what he afterwards proved . He was the best of his family , but the male line is extinguished ; not one for fear of the curse abovesaid dare touch ...
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... received with open arms on their return . We forge all our chains in the heart , ' he said . The world wondered and ceased its jeering . By degrees the mighty principle of love was convincing these reprobates of the hatefulness and ...
... received with open arms on their return . We forge all our chains in the heart , ' he said . The world wondered and ceased its jeering . By degrees the mighty principle of love was convincing these reprobates of the hatefulness and ...
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... received for encouragement the laconic answer , I rejoice to find thou art in the right way . First of all , vanity must be broken down . ' These These words were the commencement of a new life and What Work may do . 57.
... received for encouragement the laconic answer , I rejoice to find thou art in the right way . First of all , vanity must be broken down . ' These These words were the commencement of a new life and What Work may do . 57.
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Page 69 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Page 74 - Poor stuff! No, sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Page 38 - His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech.
Page 37 - 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.
Page 37 - 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...
Page 113 - All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Page 26 - 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 29 - 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 38 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Page 42 - To leave for nothing all thy sum of good; For nothing this wide universe I call Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all.