The People for Whom Shakespeare WroteHarper & brothers, 1897 - 187 páginas |
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... LITERATURE TO LIFE . Cloth , $ 150 . Post 8vo , THE GOLDEN HOUSE . Illustrated . Post 8vo , Half Leather , $ 200 . A LITTLE JOURNEY IN THE WORLD . A Novel . Post 8vo , Half Leather , $ 1 50 ; Paper , 75 cents . THEIR PILGRIMAGE ...
... LITERATURE TO LIFE . Cloth , $ 150 . Post 8vo , THE GOLDEN HOUSE . Illustrated . Post 8vo , Half Leather , $ 200 . A LITTLE JOURNEY IN THE WORLD . A Novel . Post 8vo , Half Leather , $ 1 50 ; Paper , 75 cents . THEIR PILGRIMAGE ...
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... literature . The last two traverse , therefore , some- thing of the same ground as the first , and the reader may perceive some repe- titions . It is thought best , however , to let them remain , rather than to destroy the structure of ...
... literature . The last two traverse , therefore , some- thing of the same ground as the first , and the reader may perceive some repe- titions . It is thought best , however , to let them remain , rather than to destroy the structure of ...
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... literature of the period reflects lovingly the home - like delights of these comfort- able houses of entertainment . Every little village boasted an excellent inn , and in the towns on the great thorough- fares were sumptuous houses ...
... literature of the period reflects lovingly the home - like delights of these comfort- able houses of entertainment . Every little village boasted an excellent inn , and in the towns on the great thorough- fares were sumptuous houses ...
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... literature that smacks of the soil , that is as varied , as racy , often as rude , as human life itself , and which cannot be adequately appreciated except by a study of the popular mind and the history of the time which pro- duced it ...
... literature that smacks of the soil , that is as varied , as racy , often as rude , as human life itself , and which cannot be adequately appreciated except by a study of the popular mind and the history of the time which pro- duced it ...
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Charles Dudley Warner. the literature of a period for the first time understood , but it is given its just place as an exponent of human life and a monument of human action . The student who takes up Shake- speare's plays for the purpose ...
Charles Dudley Warner. the literature of a period for the first time understood , but it is given its just place as an exponent of human life and a monument of human action . The student who takes up Shake- speare's plays for the purpose ...
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The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote: in large print Charles Dudley Warner Vista previa limitada - 2023 |
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admiration amusement Anne Boleyn apparel attire Bankside banquet beauty bread BREECHES Busino called character Charles CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER chronicler church classic clergy Cloth clowns colors Constable of Castile Coryat's Crudities court dance death devil dinner dishes doublets drama dressed drink EASY CHAIR Elizabeth England English Essex Falstaff fashions feast foreigners four French gallant genius gentlemen GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS Gilt Top glass Globe GLOBE THEATRE gowns guests hair Hamlet hanged herbs horses houses hundred James king kisses knights ladies LAURENCE HUTTON literature lived London lord manner meat ment ness noblemen's nobles plate plays poets pounds queen Radwinter rich rosted Ruffs says Harrison servants Shakespeare Shakespeare wrote silk Sir Richard Baker sort speare stage streets Stubbes supper SWAN THEATRE sweet taste theatres things thought thousand tion velvet Venetian wear WILLIAM KEMP wine women wore
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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.