Shakespeare's Autobiographical Poems: Being His Sonnets Clearly Developed: with His Character Drawn Chiefly from His WorksJ. Bohn, 1838 - 306 pages |
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... truth , falsehood , or error , of his printers and editors . Such must inevitably be the fate , when coexisting witnesses are no more , of all works , unless edited by the author himself , or irrefragably acknow- ledged by him . In ...
... truth , falsehood , or error , of his printers and editors . Such must inevitably be the fate , when coexisting witnesses are no more , of all works , unless edited by the author himself , or irrefragably acknow- ledged by him . In ...
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... Truth is , the commentators either neglected the Sonnets , defamed them , or otherwise misunderstood them . My brain has been , at all times , more puzzled by those gentlemen than by the subject under discus- sion ; owing , possibly ...
... Truth is , the commentators either neglected the Sonnets , defamed them , or otherwise misunderstood them . My brain has been , at all times , more puzzled by those gentlemen than by the subject under discus- sion ; owing , possibly ...
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... truth ; while , throughout the poems , he contends that he speaks nothing but what is freely acknow- ledged by all the world , without a thought of flattery . We are bound to believe in Shakespeare's sincerity ; for , in the course of ...
... truth ; while , throughout the poems , he contends that he speaks nothing but what is freely acknow- ledged by all the world , without a thought of flattery . We are bound to believe in Shakespeare's sincerity ; for , in the course of ...
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... truth of which could be denied . Just praise is farther removed from flattery than the payment of a debt is from making a gift ; for the gift may be serviceable and innocent , while flattery can be neither . Besides , without reference ...
... truth of which could be denied . Just praise is farther removed from flattery than the payment of a debt is from making a gift ; for the gift may be serviceable and innocent , while flattery can be neither . Besides , without reference ...
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... truth above his fellows , to make him deservedly eminent , he celebrated him for the beauty of his person , which he contended no one could gainsay . The lovers of Shakespeare may safely conclude that whatever he did on principle was ...
... truth above his fellows , to make him deservedly eminent , he celebrated him for the beauty of his person , which he contended no one could gainsay . The lovers of Shakespeare may safely conclude that whatever he did on principle was ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 188 - Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix Her ashes new create another heir As great in admiration as herself, So shall she leave her blessedness to one...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 2 - 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.
Page 80 - How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose, Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name...
Page 295 - The greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual : the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano ; they are storms turning up and disclosing to the bottom that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches.