Shakspere: His Times and ContemporariesG. Kershaw and son, 1852 - 224 pages |
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... Hand- somely bound ; coloured frontispiece , 3s . Shamrock Leaves : Tales and Sketches of Ireland . Full gilt 2s . 6d . The Holly Wreath ; handsomely bound and illustrated . 2s . 6d . The Poetic Rosary by J. Critchley Prince . Dedicated ...
... Hand- somely bound ; coloured frontispiece , 3s . Shamrock Leaves : Tales and Sketches of Ireland . Full gilt 2s . 6d . The Holly Wreath ; handsomely bound and illustrated . 2s . 6d . The Poetic Rosary by J. Critchley Prince . Dedicated ...
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... hand , Instructed him in all she knew , And gave him absolute command " DAVID GARRICK . PRE - EMINENT amongst all the writers in our English literature , and towering over the classic authors of anti- quity , like an Egyptian pyramid ...
... hand , Instructed him in all she knew , And gave him absolute command " DAVID GARRICK . PRE - EMINENT amongst all the writers in our English literature , and towering over the classic authors of anti- quity , like an Egyptian pyramid ...
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... hands the stage indeed accomplishes " the purpose of playing , " which his own " Hamlet " ( act iii . , scene 2nd , ) so judiciously tells us , " both at first , and now , was , and is , to hold , as ' twere , the mirror up to Nature ...
... hands the stage indeed accomplishes " the purpose of playing , " which his own " Hamlet " ( act iii . , scene 2nd , ) so judiciously tells us , " both at first , and now , was , and is , to hold , as ' twere , the mirror up to Nature ...
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... hands , organs , dimensions , senses , affections , passions ? fed with the same food , hurt with the same weapons , subject to the same diseases , healed by the same means , warmed and cooled by the same Winter and Summer , as a ...
... hands , organs , dimensions , senses , affections , passions ? fed with the same food , hurt with the same weapons , subject to the same diseases , healed by the same means , warmed and cooled by the same Winter and Summer , as a ...
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... hands of our All - Wise Creator , for accomplishing the most important objects in the civilisation of the whole family of man . " It was not possible to write the history of Shakspere till now , " says Waldo Emerson ; " for he is the ...
... hands of our All - Wise Creator , for accomplishing the most important objects in the civilisation of the whole family of man . " It was not possible to write the history of Shakspere till now , " says Waldo Emerson ; " for he is the ...
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A.D. SHAKSPERE'S admirable afterwards amongst Ann Hathaway archbishop bard Ben Jonson Bible bishop Blackfriars theatre born brother called Cambridge celebrated Charles Knight church College comedy court death died drama dramatist Duke Earl edition Edmund Edmund Spenser England English Essex father France gentle George George Peele Hamlet hath Henry Chettle Heywood historian honour hundred James John Heywood John Stow Jonson King labours land learned London Lord Lucy Mary Master John Shakspere merry Michael Drayton native never Oxford persecution play players poem poet poor popish pounds priest printed prison publishes puritans Queen Elizabeth Queen of Scots reader reign Robert Robert Chambers Romish says Scottish Shak Sir Henry Sir John Sir Richard Baker Sir Thomas soul Spanish Spenser Stratford Stratford-upon-Avon supposed theatre Thomas Nash thou thousand tion tragedy translation verse Walter Raleigh whilst wife William Camden William Shakspere writings