The Quarterly Review, Volume 131John Murray, 1871 - English literature |
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... means , as he expresses it , to write blank verse , and imitate the rules of dramatic composition , to which Greene and his friends had contributed so much popularity . That a country lad like Shakspeare , not of the craft , without ...
... means , as he expresses it , to write blank verse , and imitate the rules of dramatic composition , to which Greene and his friends had contributed so much popularity . That a country lad like Shakspeare , not of the craft , without ...
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... means the fool that posterity represents him to have been , showed his discrimination by No account is to be made of the document which professes to describe Shak- speare as holding a share in the theatre as early as 1596. With that ...
... means the fool that posterity represents him to have been , showed his discrimination by No account is to be made of the document which professes to describe Shak- speare as holding a share in the theatre as early as 1596. With that ...
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... means easy to decipher . If we may speak dogmatically upon such slender proofs as we now possess , he learnt to write after the old German text - hand then in use at the grammar school of Stratford . It was in this respect fifty years ...
... means easy to decipher . If we may speak dogmatically upon such slender proofs as we now possess , he learnt to write after the old German text - hand then in use at the grammar school of Stratford . It was in this respect fifty years ...
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... mean poet , for the heroical and trans- cendental in poetry , constitutes the ablest defence of such writers as Spenser , and the best apology for the popular approbation of the stilted drama of Marlowe and Kyd , it is also the best ...
... mean poet , for the heroical and trans- cendental in poetry , constitutes the ablest defence of such writers as Spenser , and the best apology for the popular approbation of the stilted drama of Marlowe and Kyd , it is also the best ...
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... mean , the noble and ignoble - this is the warp and woof - the tangled web of good and evil composing what men call the world , and set forth by Shakspeare to his contemporaries . With so broad and varied a theme as this- so terrible ...
... mean , the noble and ignoble - this is the warp and woof - the tangled web of good and evil composing what men call the world , and set forth by Shakspeare to his contemporaries . With so broad and varied a theme as this- so terrible ...
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Page 26 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he ' had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.
Page 372 - There is given Unto the things of earth, which Time hath bent, A spirit's feeling, and where he hath leant His hand, but broke his scythe, there is a power And magic in the ruin'd battlement, For which the palace of the present hour Must yield its pomp, and wait till ages are its dower.
Page 378 - Vere, You pine among your halls and towers : The languid light of your proud eyes Is wearied of the rolling hours. In glowing health, with boundless wealth, But sickening of a vague disease, You know so ill to deal with time, You needs must play such pranks as these. Clara, Clara Vere de Vere, If time be heavy on your hands, Are there no beggars at your gate, Nor any poor about your lands ? Oh! teach the orphan-boy to read, Or teach the orphan-girl to sew, Pray Heaven for a human heart, And let the...
Page 379 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.
Page 388 - I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.
Page 376 - There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind. There the passions cramp'd no longer shall have scope and breathing space: I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.
Page 388 - I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King To break the heathen and uphold the Christ...
Page 26 - It had been a thing, we confess, worthy to have been wished, that the author himself had lived to have set forth and overseen his own writings ; but since it hath been ordained otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envy his friends the office of their care and pain to have collected and published them...
Page 369 - Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription: then, let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man.
Page 371 - t was a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.