Shakspere: His Times and ContemporariesG. Kershaw and son, 1852 - 224 pages |
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... shillings , and four- pence . Charles Knight says : - " The grandfather of Mary Arden was groom of the chamber to Henry VII . , and he was the nephew of Sir John Arden . squire of the body to the same monarch . Sir John Arden was a son ...
... shillings , and four- pence . Charles Knight says : - " The grandfather of Mary Arden was groom of the chamber to Henry VII . , and he was the nephew of Sir John Arden . squire of the body to the same monarch . Sir John Arden was a son ...
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... shillings and tenpence ; and these goods included numerous oxen , bullocks , kine , horses , sheep , besides wheat ... shilling , for her life . The Harts have continued at Stratford during the two centuries that have elapsed since the ...
... shillings and tenpence ; and these goods included numerous oxen , bullocks , kine , horses , sheep , besides wheat ... shilling , for her life . The Harts have continued at Stratford during the two centuries that have elapsed since the ...
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... shillings price : a shame it is to be spoken . This stuff hath he occupied instead of grey paper , by the space of more than these ten years , and yet hath he store enough for as many years to come . " And the editor of " Letters ...
... shillings price : a shame it is to be spoken . This stuff hath he occupied instead of grey paper , by the space of more than these ten years , and yet hath he store enough for as many years to come . " And the editor of " Letters ...
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... shillings , - --a goodly sum when a gallon of the best French wine might be had for a shilling , a quarter of veal for two shillings , a loin of mutton for a shilling , a fat goose for eighteen - pence , a gallon of cream for one - and ...
... shillings , - --a goodly sum when a gallon of the best French wine might be had for a shilling , a quarter of veal for two shillings , a loin of mutton for a shilling , a fat goose for eighteen - pence , a gallon of cream for one - and ...
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... shillings a bushel , when it ought only to have been , under ordinary circumstances , about one - third of that But , notwithstanding the ignorant boasting one continually hears of " the roast beef of old England , " and " the merry ...
... shillings a bushel , when it ought only to have been , under ordinary circumstances , about one - third of that But , notwithstanding the ignorant boasting one continually hears of " the roast beef of old England , " and " the merry ...
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Page 11 - His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Page 15 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? revenge : If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute ; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Page 87 - Lawn as white as driven snow ; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses ; Masks for faces and for noses ; Bugle bracelet, necklace amber, Perfume for a lady's chamber ; Golden quoifs and stomachers, For my lads to give their dears: Pins and poking-sticks of steel. What maids lack from head to heel: Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy; Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry : Come buy.
Page 165 - Ah Ben ! Say how or .when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad? And yet each verse of thine Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine.
Page 129 - That would not let me sleep : methought, I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.* Rashly, And prais'd be rashness for it, — Let us know, Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall : and that should teach us. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.* Hor.
Page 213 - King Henry, making a mask at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch...
Page 66 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem...
Page 171 - I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your Lordship, nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burden.
Page 139 - My prime of youth is but a frost of cares; My feast of joy is but a dish of pain; My crop of corn is but a field of tares; And all my good is but vain hope of gain; The day is fled, and yet I saw no sun; And now I live, and now my life is done!
Page 21 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.