The People for Whom Shakespeare WroteHarper & brothers, 1897 - 187 páginas |
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... Horse was not fuller of Heroick Grecians , than King James his Reign was full of men excellent in all kindes of Learning . " Among these was an old university acquaintance of Baker's , " Mr. John Dunne , who leav- ing Oxford , lived at ...
... Horse was not fuller of Heroick Grecians , than King James his Reign was full of men excellent in all kindes of Learning . " Among these was an old university acquaintance of Baker's , " Mr. John Dunne , who leav- ing Oxford , lived at ...
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... horses could draw ; the Oyl being boyled out of his head was Parmacit- tee . " Nor the monstrous fish cast ashore in Lincolnshire in 1564 , which measured six yards between the eyes and had a tail fifteen feet broad ; " twelve men stood ...
... horses could draw ; the Oyl being boyled out of his head was Parmacit- tee . " Nor the monstrous fish cast ashore in Lincolnshire in 1564 , which measured six yards between the eyes and had a tail fifteen feet broad ; " twelve men stood ...
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... horse . It was a time of idleness , and if a farmer at an ale - house , in a bravery to show what he had , slapped down his purse with six shillings in it , all the rest together could not match it . But now , says Harrison , though the ...
... horse . It was a time of idleness , and if a farmer at an ale - house , in a bravery to show what he had , slapped down his purse with six shillings in it , all the rest together could not match it . But now , says Harrison , though the ...
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... horses . When Elizabeth rode into the city from her residence at Greenwich , she placed her- self behind her lord chancellor , on a pillion . The first improvement made was in the construction of a rude wagon- a cart without springs ...
... horses . When Elizabeth rode into the city from her residence at Greenwich , she placed her- self behind her lord chancellor , on a pillion . The first improvement made was in the construction of a rude wagon- a cart without springs ...
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... . who landed at Dover was drawn up to London in a wagon with six horses in a line , one after the other . Our Venetian , Busino , who went to Oxford in the coach with the ambassador in 1617 , was six days in 86 THE PEOPLE FOR WHOM.
... . who landed at Dover was drawn up to London in a wagon with six horses in a line , one after the other . Our Venetian , Busino , who went to Oxford in the coach with the ambassador in 1617 , was six days in 86 THE PEOPLE FOR WHOM.
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Página 165 - I am that merry wanderer of the night. I jest to Oberon, and make him smile When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile, Neighing in likeness of a filly foal : And...
Página 59 - Day she was dressed in white Silk, bordered with Pearls of the Size of Beans, and over it a Mantle of black Silk, shot with Silver Threads; her Train was very long, the End of it borne by a Marchioness; instead of a Chain, she had an oblong Collar of Gold and Jewels.
Página 35 - One is the multitude of chimneys lately erected, whereas in their young days there were not above two or three, if so many, in most uplandish towns of the realm (the religious houses and manor places of their lords always excepted, and peradventure some great personages), but each one made his fire against a reredos in the hall, where he dined and dressed his meat.
Página 63 - At the end of all this ceremonial a number of unmarried ladies appeared, who, with particular solemnity, lifted the meat off the, table, and conveyed it into the queen's inner and more private chamber, where, after she had chosen for herself, the rest goes to the ladies of the court.
Página 116 - Slavery ; vastly fond of great Noises that fill the Ear, such as the firing of Cannon, Drums, and the ringing of Bells, so that it is common for a number of them, that have got a Glass in their Heads, to go up into some Belfry, and ring the Bells for Hours together, for the sake of Exercise.
Página 62 - ... had prostrated herself three times, in the most graceful manner approached the table and rubbed the plates with bread and salt with as much awe as if the Queen had been present. When they had waited there a little while, the yeomen of the guard...
Página 59 - ... next came the queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic ; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant; her nose a little hooked; her lips narrow, and her teeth black (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar) ; she had in her ears two pearls, with very rich drops ; she wore false hair, and that red...
Página 175 - Sophocles and Euripides; but they are to be followed in making the drama, or any literature, expressive of its own time, while it is faithful to the emotions and feeling of universal human nature. And herein, it seems to me, lies the broad distinction between most of the English and French literature of the latter part of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries. Perhaps I may be indulged in another observation on this topic, touching a later time. Notwithstanding the prevalent...
Página 181 - Staple, wherein the age may see her own folly, or hunger and thirst after published pamphlets of news, set out every Saturday, but made all at home, and no syllable of truth in them : than which there cannot be a greater disease in nature, or a fouler scorn put upon the times.
Página 116 - They excel in dancing and music, for they are active and lively, though of a thicker make than the French ; they cut their hair close on the middle of the head, letting it grow on either side; they are good sailors, and better pirates, cunning, treacherous, and thievish ; above 300 are said to be hanged annually at London.