Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Works of Shakespeare: His Sources and the Writings of His Principal Contemporaries

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University Press, 1916 - 169 pagine
 

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Pagina 5 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Pagina 115 - Comedy, he determined to see whether it would sort to a happier end for this new actor, then it did for the old player.
Pagina 5 - Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time!
Pagina 34 - This comedy was written at her command, and by her direction, and she was so eager to see it acted, that she commanded it to be finished in fourteen days, and was afterwards, as tradition tells us, very well pleased at the representation.
Pagina 137 - Being a verbal Index to all the passages in the Dramatic Works of the Poet.
Pagina 74 - As the soule of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweete wittie soule of Ovid lives in mellifluous & hony-tongued Shakespeare : witnes his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his private friends, &c.
Pagina 58 - ASTROPHEL A PASTORALL ELEGIE UPON THE DEATH OF THE MOST NOBLE AND VALOROUS KNIGHT SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.
Pagina 25 - Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio: viz.
Pagina 94 - Moneths travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia, commonly called the Grisons country, Helvetia, alias Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands ; Newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the County of Somerset, and now dispersed to the nourishment of the travelling Members of this Kingdome &c.
Pagina ii - To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe, He was not of an age, but for all time; And all the Muses still were in their prime, When, like Apollo, he came forth to warm Our ears, or like a Mercury to charm. Nature herself was proud of his designs, And joy"d to wear the dressing of his lines...

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