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... Malone has , in most instances , demonstrated to be foreign to the style and character of our author's writings . The publi- cation , however , is so close to the time , and some persons have attached so much importance to it , that ...
... Malone has , in most instances , demonstrated to be foreign to the style and character of our author's writings . The publi- cation , however , is so close to the time , and some persons have attached so much importance to it , that ...
Page xi
... his signatures to his will and a mortgage deed , fac - similes of which are given from Mr. Malone in Reed's edition , that the modern alteration of his name to Shakspeare is founded . But in one out of these four signatures the last xi.
... his signatures to his will and a mortgage deed , fac - similes of which are given from Mr. Malone in Reed's edition , that the modern alteration of his name to Shakspeare is founded . But in one out of these four signatures the last xi.
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... of their fraud , if such had not been his use , and the just and true orthography of their day at least . main подвежать Shortypow Shabsze w ZBy Mr Misham Shjalprze But in the first note on Mr. Malone's posthumous Life xiii.
... of their fraud , if such had not been his use , and the just and true orthography of their day at least . main подвежать Shortypow Shabsze w ZBy Mr Misham Shjalprze But in the first note on Mr. Malone's posthumous Life xiii.
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... Malone's posthumous Life of Shakespeare 1821 , it is said , that the fact of " illiterate persons , who spelt by the ear , having written Shakspere or Shackspere is decisive proof of his name having been so pronounced . " We would on ...
... Malone's posthumous Life of Shakespeare 1821 , it is said , that the fact of " illiterate persons , who spelt by the ear , having written Shakspere or Shackspere is decisive proof of his name having been so pronounced . " We would on ...
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... Malone suppresses this fact ; but tells us the principal authors associated with Shakspeare are B. Jonson , & c . Supplem . to Johns . and Steev . Shaksp . 8vo . 1780. II . 733. It is also so given in the epistle prefixed to Poems by a ...
... Malone suppresses this fact ; but tells us the principal authors associated with Shakspeare are B. Jonson , & c . Supplem . to Johns . and Steev . Shaksp . 8vo . 1780. II . 733. It is also so given in the epistle prefixed to Poems by a ...
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Page 86 - Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will. My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Page 65 - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry : be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
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Page 39 - My liege, and madam, — to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief...
Page 26 - If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not; Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest.
Page 34 - Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors, he comes before me.
Page 23 - Ham. Alas, poor ghost ! Ghost. Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing To what I shall unfold. Ham. Speak ; I am bound to hear.
Page 34 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.
Page 73 - But these are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Page 8 - Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth ! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman! A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she follow'd my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason...