Shakespeare's Autobiographical Poems: Being His Sonnets Clearly Developed: with His Character Drawn Chiefly from His WorksJ. Bohn, 1838 - 306 páginas |
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... reason to think his mere opinion may be acceptable to many , while it can offend none , unless he dogmatically founds a theory upon it . Were it my wish to act in this manner , I should refrain , well aware of the futility of such a ...
... reason to think his mere opinion may be acceptable to many , while it can offend none , unless he dogmatically founds a theory upon it . Were it my wish to act in this manner , I should refrain , well aware of the futility of such a ...
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... reason is , that Shakespeare , when in London , if he followed his newly adopted profession eagerly , which , besides his studies as an actor , he assuredly did , by his having produced the first sketch of Hamlet at the end of three or ...
... reason is , that Shakespeare , when in London , if he followed his newly adopted profession eagerly , which , besides his studies as an actor , he assuredly did , by his having produced the first sketch of Hamlet at the end of three or ...
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... reason for fixing the first play at a much earlier period than 1591. As it was , he felt compelled to crowd seventeen plays , together with the poems , within the space of eight years . He comments on the fact , that Webbe , in his ...
... reason for fixing the first play at a much earlier period than 1591. As it was , he felt compelled to crowd seventeen plays , together with the poems , within the space of eight years . He comments on the fact , that Webbe , in his ...
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... reason I shall spare no pains in a minute in- vestigation , confiding throughout in the interest of his lovers on such a theme . My explanation will , I hope , be satisfactory , while I allow it , for the most part , to go hand in hand ...
... reason I shall spare no pains in a minute in- vestigation , confiding throughout in the interest of his lovers on such a theme . My explanation will , I hope , be satisfactory , while I allow it , for the most part , to go hand in hand ...
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... reason for disturbing the divisions I then made , which were as follows : - To his friend , FIRST POEM . Stanzas 1 to 26 . persuading him to marry . SECOND POEM . Stanzas 27 to 55. To his friend , who had robbed the poet of his mistress ...
... reason for disturbing the divisions I then made , which were as follows : - To his friend , FIRST POEM . Stanzas 1 to 26 . persuading him to marry . SECOND POEM . Stanzas 27 to 55. To his friend , who had robbed the poet of his mistress ...
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Página 98 - d no sooner but despised straight; Past reason hunted; and no sooner had, Past reason hated, as a swallowed bait, On purpose laid to make the taker mad...
Página 65 - gainst my fury Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further : Go, release them, Ariel ; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, And they shall be themselves.
Página 190 - That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts ; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Página 32 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Página 154 - Dis's waggon! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Página 71 - Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.
Página 266 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Página 74 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
Página 29 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Página 268 - And he, the man whom Nature self had made To mock herself, and Truth to imitate, With kindly counter under mimic shade, Our pleasant Willy, ah! is dead of late: With whom all joy and jolly merriment Is also deaded, and in dolour drent.