An Inquiry Into the Authenticity of Various Pictures and Prints, which from the Decease of the Poet to Our Own Times, Have Been Offered to the Public as Portraits of Shakespeare: Containing a Careful Examination of the Evidence on which They Claim to be Received |
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Pagina 48 - Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire ? I have no precious time at all to spend, Nor services to do, till you require. Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour When you have bid your servant once adieu...
Pagina 11 - TO THE READER. This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life: O, could he but have drawne his wit As well in brasse, as he hath hit His face ; the print would then surpasse All that was ever writ in brasse. But, since he cannot, Reader, looke Not on his Picture, but his Booke.
Pagina 47 - I chide the world-without-end hour, Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour, When you have bid your servant once adieu: Nor dare I question with my jealous thought, Where you may be , or your affairs suppose...
Pagina 137 - 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.
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Pagina 31 - Shakespeare, thy gift, I place before my sight ; With awe, I ask his blessing ere I write ; With reverence look on his majestic face; Proud to be less, but of his godlike race.
Pagina 113 - Make kings his subjects; by exchanging verse Enlive their pale trunks, that the present age Joys in their joy, and trembles at their rage : Yet so to temper passion, that our ears Take pleasure in their pain, and eyes in tears Both weep and smile...
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Pagina 55 - The fire having continued all this night (if I may call that night which was light as day for ten miles round about, after a dreadful manner) when conspiring with a fierce...
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| Titolo | An Inquiry Into the Authenticity of Various Pictures and Prints, which from the Decease of the Poet to Our Own Times, Have Been Offered to the Public as Portraits of Shakespeare: Containing a Careful Examination of the Evidence on which They Claim to be Received |
| Autore | James Boaden |
| Editore | R. Triphook, 1824 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | Harvard University |
| Digitalizzato | 8 feb 2006 |
| Lunghezza | 143 pagine |
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