Shakspeare and His TimesR. Bentley, 1852 - 424 pages |
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... theatre to resound with transports of delight . Religion has , therefore , universally been the source and furnished the primitive materials of dramatic art ; at its origin , it celebrated , among the Greeks , the adventures of Bacchus ...
... theatre to resound with transports of delight . Religion has , therefore , universally been the source and furnished the primitive materials of dramatic art ; at its origin , it celebrated , among the Greeks , the adventures of Bacchus ...
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... theatres which had been erected , the Puritan , in his solitary meditations , burned with indignation against these pomps of Belial , and this sacrilegious employment of man , the image of God upon earth . Poetic ardour and religious ...
... theatres which had been erected , the Puritan , in his solitary meditations , burned with indignation against these pomps of Belial , and this sacrilegious employment of man , the image of God upon earth . Poetic ardour and religious ...
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... the care of holding horses at the door of the theatre was his first connexion with the stage - his first step towards dramatic life . But the extraordinary man is always revealed by some outward sign : such 34 SHAKSPEARE AND HIS TIMES .
... the care of holding horses at the door of the theatre was his first connexion with the stage - his first step towards dramatic life . But the extraordinary man is always revealed by some outward sign : such 34 SHAKSPEARE AND HIS TIMES .
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... theatres . Such is the anecdote related by Johnson , who had it , he said , from Pope , to whom it was communicated by Rowe . Nevertheless Rowe , Shakspeare's first biogra- pher , has not mentioned it in his own narrative , and ...
... theatres . Such is the anecdote related by Johnson , who had it , he said , from Pope , to whom it was communicated by Rowe . Nevertheless Rowe , Shakspeare's first biogra- pher , has not mentioned it in his own narrative , and ...
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... Theatre ; for Greene , his townsman , and probably his relative , figured there as an actor of some reputation , and also as the author of several comedies . According to Aubrey , it was with a positive intention to devote himself to ...
... Theatre ; for Greene , his townsman , and probably his relative , figured there as an actor of some reputation , and also as the author of several comedies . According to Aubrey , it was with a positive intention to devote himself to ...
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Page 122 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 387 - The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster...
Page 331 - O, that the slave had forty thousand lives ! One is too poor, too weak for my revenge. Now do I see 'tis true. Look here, lago ; All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven : 'Tis gone. Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell ! Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne To tyrannous hate ! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, For 'tis of aspics
Page 49 - Come, my Corinna, come; and, coming, mark How each field turns a street, each street a park Made green and trimm'd with trees: see how Devotion gives each house a bough Or branch: each porch, each door, ere this An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of white-thorn neatly interwove; As if here were those cooler shades of love.
Page 332 - The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Page 46 - Ceremony doffed his pride. The heir, with roses in his shoes, That night might village partner choose ; The lord, underogating, share The vulgar game of
Page 197 - O my love! my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 341 - Here is my journey's end, here is my butt, And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.
Page 382 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot (the terror of the French) to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his 180 tomb, he should triumph again on the stage, and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spectators at least (at several times), who in the tragedian that represents his person imagine they behold him fresh bleeding.
Page 49 - Above an hour since ; yet you not drest, Nay ! not so much as out of bed ? When all the birds have matins said, And sung their thankful hymns : 'tis sin, Nay, profanation, to keep in, — Whenas a thousand virgins on this day, Spring, sooner than the lark, to fetch in May.