Shakspere: Personal RecollectionsBroadway Publishing Company, 1904 - 306 pages |
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... Theatrical Drudgery . Compositions Growing Literary Renown . Royal Patrons 53 CHAPTER VIII . 61 CHAPTER IX . Bohemian Hours . Westminster Abbey . " Love's Labor's Lost " 73 CHAPTER X. Queen Elizabeth . War . Shakspere in Ireland ...
... Theatrical Drudgery . Compositions Growing Literary Renown . Royal Patrons 53 CHAPTER VIII . 61 CHAPTER IX . Bohemian Hours . Westminster Abbey . " Love's Labor's Lost " 73 CHAPTER X. Queen Elizabeth . War . Shakspere in Ireland ...
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... theatrical bakers . With the pen of pleasure and brush of fancy he painted human life in everlasting colors , that will not fade or tarnish with age or wither with the winds of adversity . The celestial sun- light of his genius ...
... theatrical bakers . With the pen of pleasure and brush of fancy he painted human life in everlasting colors , that will not fade or tarnish with age or wither with the winds of adversity . The celestial sun- light of his genius ...
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... theatrical performance . It was on the first of April , 1573 , when we were about nine years of age . A strolling band of comic , and Punch and Judy players had made a sudden invasion of Stratford and established themselves in the big ...
... theatrical performance . It was on the first of April , 1573 , when we were about nine years of age . A strolling band of comic , and Punch and Judy players had made a sudden invasion of Stratford and established themselves in the big ...
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... theatrical artists , from London and other towns were brought down to the heart of Old Albion to swell the pleas- ure of the reigning Queen . Continual plays were going on , while horn , fife , bugle and drum lent music to the ...
... theatrical artists , from London and other towns were brought down to the heart of Old Albion to swell the pleas- ure of the reigning Queen . Continual plays were going on , while horn , fife , bugle and drum lent music to the ...
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... theatrical performances , and at the conclusion of one of the plays " Virtue Vic- torious , " Queen Elizabeth called up William and a purple page named Francis Bacon , patted them on the head with her royal digits , and said they would ...
... theatrical performances , and at the conclusion of one of the plays " Virtue Vic- torious , " Queen Elizabeth called up William and a purple page named Francis Bacon , patted them on the head with her royal digits , and said they would ...
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Page 268 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : And thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, — when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble...
Page 126 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts ; I am no orator, as Brutus is: But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend : and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him.
Page 182 - Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears you need my help: Go to, then; you come to me, and you say "Shylock, we would have moneys...
Page 171 - More strange than true : I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact...
Page 180 - Let me play the Fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster ? Sleep when he wakes?
Page 123 - Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his country? If any, speak: for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.
Page 99 - But, soft ! what light through yonder window breaks ! It is the east, and Juliet is the sun ! — [Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she...
Page 121 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers ! Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times.
Page 252 - Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience, I will a round...
Page 217 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!