An Attempt to Determine the Chronological Order of Shakespeare's Plays: The Harness Essay, 1877

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Macmillan and Company, 1878 - 220 pagine
 

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Pagina 7 - Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crowned King Of France and England, did this King succeed ; [ Whose state so many had the managing, That they lost France and made his England bleed : Which oft our stage hath shown : and, for their sake, In your fair minds let this acceptance take.
Pagina 21 - Take him and cut him into little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world shall be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Pagina 41 - Tell him this tale; and from the mouth of England Add thus much more, that no Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions ; But as we, under heaven, are supreme head, So under Him that great supremacy, Where we do reign, we will alone uphold,
Pagina 5 - a Player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blanke verse as the best of you ; and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his owne conceit the only Shake-scene in a countrie.
Pagina 81 - Were now the general of our gracious empress, (As in good time he may,) from Ireland coming, Bringing rebellion broached on his sword, How many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him !"—Act v.
Pagina 28 - He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass,
Pagina 93 - The argument of his comedy might have been of some other nature, as of a duke to be in love with a countess, and that countess to be in love with the duke's son, and the son to love the lady's waiting-maid ; some such cross wooing, with a clown to
Pagina 135 - With the true Relation of the whole Historic, Adventures, and Fortunes, of the said Prince. As also, the no less strange and worthy accidents, in the Birth and Life of his Daughter Marina. As it hath been divers and sundry times acted by his Majesties Servants at the Globe on the Banck-side. By William Shakespeare. Imprinted for Henry Gosson, 1609.
Pagina 184 - The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, continuing to his Death, and Coronation of Henry the Fift. With the Humors of Sir John Falstaffe, and Swaggering Pistoll. As it hath been sundrie times publikely acted by the Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlaine his servants. Written by William
Pagina 5 - two hundred years in his tomb he should triumph again on the stage, and have his bones embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spectators (at least at several times) who, in the tragedian that represents his person, behold him fresh bleeding.

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