William Shakspere: A BiographyCollier, 1860 - 553 páginas |
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... learning in those days to make goodman Whetely , and goodman Cardre , and their fellows , somewhat shy of writing and Latin . They were not quite safe in reading . Some of the readers had openly looked upon Tyndale's Bible and ...
... learning in those days to make goodman Whetely , and goodman Cardre , and their fellows , somewhat shy of writing and Latin . They were not quite safe in reading . Some of the readers had openly looked upon Tyndale's Bible and ...
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... Learning , however , was not slow then to put on its solemn aspects to the " tender babes ; and so we have some grammars with a wooden cut of an awful man sitting on high chair , pointing to a book with his right hand , but with a ...
... Learning , however , was not slow then to put on its solemn aspects to the " tender babes ; and so we have some grammars with a wooden cut of an awful man sitting on high chair , pointing to a book with his right hand , but with a ...
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... learning was to be reached , a new life would be opening upon him . The humble minister of religion who was his first in- structor has left no memorials of his talents or his acquirements ; and in a few years another master came after ...
... learning was to be reached , a new life would be opening upon him . The humble minister of religion who was his first in- structor has left no memorials of his talents or his acquirements ; and in a few years another master came after ...
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... learning , and sweet in their sermons , but somewhat too sour in preaching away their pastime . " The description by Laneham is the only precise account which remains to us of the " old storial show , " the " sport presented in an ...
... learning , and sweet in their sermons , but somewhat too sour in preaching away their pastime . " The description by Laneham is the only precise account which remains to us of the " old storial show , " the " sport presented in an ...
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... learning that manifests itself in them , whilst it offers the best proof of his familiarity with the ancient writers , is a circumstance which has misled those who never attempted to dispute the existence of the learning which was ...
... learning that manifests itself in them , whilst it offers the best proof of his familiarity with the ancient writers , is a circumstance which has misled those who never attempted to dispute the existence of the learning which was ...
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Página 226 - I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear Such gallant chiding; for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
Página 308 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Página 523 - Some heavenly music, (which even now I do,) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Página 264 - Hear him but reason in divinity, And, all-admiring, with an inward wish You would desire the king were made a prelate...
Página 175 - So went to bed : where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still ; and, three nights after this, About the hour of eight, (which he himself Foretold should be his last,) full of repentance, Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows, He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace.
Página 378 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...
Página 408 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons' difference : as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say, This is no flattery : these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Página 241 - tis he: why, he was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn.
Página 240 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Página 529 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.