Studies in ShakespeareDutton, 1904 - 380 pages |
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... First Folio , were due to the poet's own revising hand ; for , this question , as well as the whole question of the relation of the texts of the Quartos to that of the First Folio , would require , even in outline , a xii PREFACE.
... First Folio , were due to the poet's own revising hand ; for , this question , as well as the whole question of the relation of the texts of the Quartos to that of the First Folio , would require , even in outline , a xii PREFACE.
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... it produced by the spontaneous hand of Nature . " 2 Conjectures on Original Composition . Works ( Ed . 1774 ) , vol . iv . 289 . Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare . Farmer's contention was 7 SHAKESPEARE AS A CLASSICAL SCHOLAR.
... it produced by the spontaneous hand of Nature . " 2 Conjectures on Original Composition . Works ( Ed . 1774 ) , vol . iv . 289 . Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare . Farmer's contention was 7 SHAKESPEARE AS A CLASSICAL SCHOLAR.
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... hand information . Farmer certainly , and with much humour too , made havoc of many of the supposed proofs of Shake- speare's classical learning paraded by Upton and Whalley . He showed conclusively that in the Roman plays Shakespeare ...
... hand information . Farmer certainly , and with much humour too , made havoc of many of the supposed proofs of Shake- speare's classical learning paraded by Upton and Whalley . He showed conclusively that in the Roman plays Shakespeare ...
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... hands or in his memory , and had introduced touches from it . But Maginn , who had neither leisure nor taste for minute investigation , went no further . Then , in two articles in Fraser's Magazine , for December , 1879 , and January ...
... hands or in his memory , and had introduced touches from it . But Maginn , who had neither leisure nor taste for minute investigation , went no further . Then , in two articles in Fraser's Magazine , for December , 1879 , and January ...
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... hands of the A- B- C- darius , who would teach him his alphabet , he would at once begin Latin , which he would learn as we now commonly learn , for practical pur- poses , modern languages , that is , colloquially through questions and ...
... hands of the A- B- C- darius , who would teach him his alphabet , he would at once begin Latin , which he would learn as we now commonly learn , for practical pur- poses , modern languages , that is , colloquially through questions and ...
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Page 34 - Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid, Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar; graves at my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth...
Page 224 - Give me leave. Here lies the water ; good : here stands the man ; good : If the man go to this water, and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes; mark you that: but if the water come to him, and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he, that is not guilty of his own death, shortens not his own life. 2 Clo. But is this law ? 1 Clo. Ay, marry is't ; crowner's-quest law. 2 Clo. Will you ha' the truth on't ? If this had not been a gentlewoman, she should have been buried out of Christian...
Page 276 - 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 oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Page 290 - Be absolute for death ; either death, or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with Life : If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep : a breath thou art, Servile to all the skiey influences, That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, Hourly afflict...
Page 281 - That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat. Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery. That aptly is put on.
Page 25 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 132 - Wordsworth finely and truly calls poetry ' the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge : ' our religion, parading evidences such as those on which the popular mind relies now ; our philosophy, pluming itself on its reasonings about causation and finite and infinite being ; what are they but the shadows and dreams and false shows of knowledge? The day will come when we shall wonder at ourselves for having trusted to them, for having taken them seriously; and the more we perceive their hollowness,...
Page 55 - They say miracles are past ; and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors ; ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.
Page 330 - ... idle, unwholesome, and (as I may term them) vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind of quickness and life of spirit, but no soundness of matter or goodness of quality.
Page 205 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come ; the readiness is all ; since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?