The Shakespearean Myth: William Shakespeare and Circumstantial EvidenceR. Clarke, 1888 - 334 pages |
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... Bacon , was one of the most versatile men who ever lived . It is not safe to judge of his poetical powers by his Paraphrase of the Psalms , which was written - just as John Milton's par- aphrase was written - in what is to us , to - day ...
... Bacon , was one of the most versatile men who ever lived . It is not safe to judge of his poetical powers by his Paraphrase of the Psalms , which was written - just as John Milton's par- aphrase was written - in what is to us , to - day ...
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... Bacon to that vicinity , and cries " sacrilege " and " lunacy ! " For my part I have never been able to decide whether the Baconian Theory were the greater com- pliment to Bacon or to Shakespeare himself . Cer- tainly William ...
... Bacon to that vicinity , and cries " sacrilege " and " lunacy ! " For my part I have never been able to decide whether the Baconian Theory were the greater com- pliment to Bacon or to Shakespeare himself . Cer- tainly William ...
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... Bacon's " madness , " indeed , has been rapidly contagious . Now - a - days , men make books to prove , not that William Shakespeare did not write these works , but that Francis Bacon , Walter Raleigh , or some other Elizabethan , did ...
... Bacon's " madness , " indeed , has been rapidly contagious . Now - a - days , men make books to prove , not that William Shakespeare did not write these works , but that Francis Bacon , Walter Raleigh , or some other Elizabethan , did ...
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... a slur on one who would read " Shakespeare . " 3 The " play " he did make out of it is to be found in W. H. Smith's " Bacon and Shakespeare , " p . 129 . so meanly written that the comedy neither caused your mirth PART I. THE MYSTERY . 21.
... a slur on one who would read " Shakespeare . " 3 The " play " he did make out of it is to be found in W. H. Smith's " Bacon and Shakespeare , " p . 129 . so meanly written that the comedy neither caused your mirth PART I. THE MYSTERY . 21.
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... Bacon and Shakespeare showed " a want of simplicity and purity of diction with defective taste and elegance , " and that " a reasonable propriety of · thoughts he ( Shakespeare ) can not at any 3 PART I. THE MYSTERY . 25 deputy recorder ...
... Bacon and Shakespeare showed " a want of simplicity and purity of diction with defective taste and elegance , " and that " a reasonable propriety of · thoughts he ( Shakespeare ) can not at any 3 PART I. THE MYSTERY . 25 deputy recorder ...
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Page 136 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Page 182 - I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun: The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears: the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement: each thing's a thief; The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power Have uncheck'd theft.
Page 33 - Alas ! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio ; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy ; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.
Page 130 - And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines ! Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit, As, since, she will vouchsafe no other wit. The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please ; But antiquated and deserted lie, As they were not of nature's family. Yet must I not give nature all ; thy art, My gentle SHAKESPEARE, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion : and, that he 278 Who casts to write a living line, must sweat,...
Page 215 - But see, his face is black and full of blood; His eyeballs further out than when he lived, Staring full ghastly like a strangled man: His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretch'd with struggling ; His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd And tugg'd for life, and was by strength subdued.
Page 82 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers...
Page 129 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou are a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Page 239 - Sir, the year growing ancient, Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth Of trembling winter, — the fairest flowers o...
Page 141 - To draw no envy, SHAKESPEARE, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame ; While I confess thy writings to be such, As neither man, nor muse, can praise too much.
Page 258 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the mean time two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?