William Shakespeare Not an ImpostorG. Routledge & Company, 1857 - 122 pages |
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... Advancement of Learning , ' which future ages shall render in different languages . But be the faith of other nations what it will in this point , the matter I report is so well understood in England , that every man knows and ...
... Advancement of Learning , ' which future ages shall render in different languages . But be the faith of other nations what it will in this point , the matter I report is so well understood in England , that every man knows and ...
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... Advancement of Learning , that of Henry VII . , that of the Essays , being retractate , and made more perfect , well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens , which forsake me not . For these modern languages will , at one ...
... Advancement of Learning , that of Henry VII . , that of the Essays , being retractate , and made more perfect , well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens , which forsake me not . For these modern languages will , at one ...
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... ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING : Poetry is nothing else but feigned history . TWELFTH NIGHT , Act i . Sc . ii . : Viola .- ' Tis poetical . Olivia . - It is more likely to be feigned . AS YOU LIKE IT , Act iii . Sc . vii . : The truest poetry ...
... ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING : Poetry is nothing else but feigned history . TWELFTH NIGHT , Act i . Sc . ii . : Viola .- ' Tis poetical . Olivia . - It is more likely to be feigned . AS YOU LIKE IT , Act iii . Sc . vii . : The truest poetry ...
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... ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING : Behaviour seemeth to me a garment of the mind , and to have the conditions of a garment . For it ought to be made in fashion , it ought not to be too curious . HAMLET , Act i . Sc . iii . : Costly thy habit as ...
... ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING : Behaviour seemeth to me a garment of the mind , and to have the conditions of a garment . For it ought to be made in fashion , it ought not to be too curious . HAMLET , Act i . Sc . iii . : Costly thy habit as ...
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... Advancement of Learning , " and the comedy of " Twelfth Night . " Bacon's treatise was first published in 1605 , whereas " Twelfth Night " had been acted as early as 1602 , if not before . In No. 6 on the list , we find a sentiment in ...
... Advancement of Learning , " and the comedy of " Twelfth Night . " Bacon's treatise was first published in 1605 , whereas " Twelfth Night " had been acted as early as 1602 , if not before . In No. 6 on the list , we find a sentiment in ...
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Page 100 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James!
Page 67 - ... stolne and surreptitious copies, maimed, and deformed by the frauds and stealthes of injurious impostors, that expos'd them: even those are now offer'd to your view cur'd, and perfect of their limbes; and all the rest, absolute in their numbers, as he conceived them.
Page 1 - Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights.
Page 79 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 56 - Have gloz^d, but superficially ; not much Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought Unfit to hear moral philosophy. The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of...
Page 99 - Accius, him of Cordova dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread, And shake a stage; or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.
Page 95 - Reade him, therefore; and againe, and againe: And if then you doe not like him, surely you are in some manifest danger, not to understand him.
Page 85 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare, for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 1 - But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before.
Page 44 - Henry VII." that of the " Essays," being retractate, and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens, which forsake me not, for these modern languages will, at one time or other, play the bankrupts with books; and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad, as God shall give me leave, to recover it with posterity.