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... question keenly agitated of late years , whether Shakespeare was a clerk in an attorney's office at Stratford before he joined the players in London ? From your indefatigable researches and your critical acumen , which have thrown so ...
... question keenly agitated of late years , whether Shakespeare was a clerk in an attorney's office at Stratford before he joined the players in London ? From your indefatigable researches and your critical acumen , which have thrown so ...
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... question , and as I have a little leisure during this long vacation , I cannot refuse to communicate to you my sentiments upon the subject , and I shall be happy if , from my professional knowledge and experience , I can afford you any ...
... question , and as I have a little leisure during this long vacation , I cannot refuse to communicate to you my sentiments upon the subject , and I shall be happy if , from my professional knowledge and experience , I can afford you any ...
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... question or doubt . We certainly know that he wrote a beautiful and busi- ness - like hand , which he probably acquired early . There was a free grammar school at Stratford , founded in the reign of Edward IV . , and reformed by a ...
... question or doubt . We certainly know that he wrote a beautiful and busi- ness - like hand , which he probably acquired early . There was a free grammar school at Stratford , founded in the reign of Edward IV . , and reformed by a ...
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... question very elaborately . It must be admitted that there is no established fact with which this supposition is not consistent . At Strat- ford there was , by royal charter , a court of record , with jurisdiction over all personal ...
... question very elaborately . It must be admitted that there is no established fact with which this supposition is not consistent . At Strat- ford there was , by royal charter , a court of record , with jurisdiction over all personal ...
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... question to me , " Where do you live ? " I answered , " I have chambers in Lincoln's Inn , my Lord . " " Ah ! ” replied he , " but I mean - when term is over . " 6 players in Hamlet ' and in the Taming of 24 SHAKESPEARE'S LEGAL ...
... question to me , " Where do you live ? " I answered , " I have chambers in Lincoln's Inn , my Lord . " " Ah ! ” replied he , " but I mean - when term is over . " 6 players in Hamlet ' and in the Taming of 24 SHAKESPEARE'S LEGAL ...
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Page 75 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a {grammar-school ; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used ; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Page 88 - 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. Second Clo. But is this law ? First Clo. Ay, marry, is't ; crowner's quest law. Second Clo. Will you ha' the truth on't ? If this had not been a gentlewoman, she should have been buried out...
Page 106 - What years, i' faith? Vio. About your years, my lord. DUKE. Too old, by heaven : let still the woman take An elder than herself : so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart...
Page 27 - Seneca, let blood line by line and page by page, at length must needs die to our stage...
Page 21 - History of Rome. From the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire. With the History of Literature and Art.
Page 51 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent, And many an error by the same example Will rush into the state; it cannot be.
Page 73 - O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words ! I marvel, thy master hath not eaten thee for a word ; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus : thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.
Page 6 - BUNBURY'S (CJF) Journal of a Residence at the Cape of Good Hope; with Excursions into the Interior, and Notes on the Natural History and Native Tribes of the Country.
Page 38 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; And He, that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips. Like man new made.
Page 93 - I will, a round, unvarnished tale deliver, Of my whole course of love; what drugs, what charms, What conjuration, and what mighty magic — For such proceedings I am charged withal — I won his daughter with.