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... friend and patron the Earl of Southampton . The Venus and Adonis Shakespeare himself called " the first heir of his invention . " Collier tells us that " it was quite new of its class , being founded on no model either ancient or modern ...
... friend and patron the Earl of Southampton . The Venus and Adonis Shakespeare himself called " the first heir of his invention . " Collier tells us that " it was quite new of its class , being founded on no model either ancient or modern ...
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... friends . " He died on the 23rd April 1616 , at the age of fifty - three , on the same day of the same month that he was born . Of the cause and manner of his death but little is known . The legend that he died of hard drinking may be ...
... friends . " He died on the 23rd April 1616 , at the age of fifty - three , on the same day of the same month that he was born . Of the cause and manner of his death but little is known . The legend that he died of hard drinking may be ...
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... friend and fellow genius , Ben Jonson , thrice refers to him as the ' gentle Shakespeare " : and another author with whom Shakespeare may or may not have been acquainted , the great romantic poet , Edmund Spenser , confers on him the ...
... friend and fellow genius , Ben Jonson , thrice refers to him as the ' gentle Shakespeare " : and another author with whom Shakespeare may or may not have been acquainted , the great romantic poet , Edmund Spenser , confers on him the ...
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... friend . " But more than that he won the friendship and admiration of Ben Jonson , a very great dramatic writer indeed , and who if Shakespeare had not existed might fairly have laid claim to his dramatic throne . It was Ben Jonson who ...
... friend . " But more than that he won the friendship and admiration of Ben Jonson , a very great dramatic writer indeed , and who if Shakespeare had not existed might fairly have laid claim to his dramatic throne . It was Ben Jonson who ...
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... friendship , for perfect love he may , without reluctance , be pronounced incapable . The following verses on the late celebrated Professor Jowett of Balliol were written not many years back by some Oxford wag : - " A little garden ...
... friendship , for perfect love he may , without reluctance , be pronounced incapable . The following verses on the late celebrated Professor Jowett of Balliol were written not many years back by some Oxford wag : - " A little garden ...
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Page 95 - That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of...
Page 36 - O ! there be players, that I have seen play — and heard others praise, and that highly— not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made them, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 94 - Get thee to a nunnery ; Why would'st thou be a breeder of sinners ? I am myself indifferent honest ; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me : I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious ; with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in...
Page 133 - Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied : for though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears.
Page 202 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility. But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Page 93 - 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...
Page 228 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them. The oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 195 - 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.
Page 12 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 66 - Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony to drink small beer...