Stratford on Avon

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J.M. Dent & Company, 1904 - 68 páginas
 

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Página 49 - Here Hoitt, all his sports and labours past. Joins his loved master Somervile at last ; Together went they echoing fields to try, Together now in silent dust they lie. Servant and lord, when once we yield our breath, Huntsman and poet, are alike in death.
Página 20 - Stranger, to whom this monument is shown, Invoke the poet's curse upon Malone ; Whose meddling zeal his barbarous taste betrays, And daubs his tombstone, as he mars his plays.
Página 19 - To the Memory of the deceased Author, Master William Shakspeare. Shakspeare, at length thy pious fellows give The world thy works ; thy works, by which outlive Thy tomb, thy name must : when that stone is rent, And time dissolves thy Stratford monument, Here we alive shall view thee still ; this book, When brass and marble fade, shall make thee look Fresh to all ages...
Página 12 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was indeed honest, and of an. open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Página 13 - This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, ... This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land...
Página 49 - Of different casts, to fill its changeful scene ; But all the merit that we justly prize, • Not in the part, but in the acting lies. And as the lyre, so may the huntsman's horn Fame's trumpet rival, and his name adorn.
Página 9 - Shakspeare stole the buck was not that which surrounds Charlecote, but belonged to a mansion at some distance, where Sir Thomas Lucy resided at the time of the trespass. The tradition went, that they hid the buck in a barn, part of which was standing a few years ago, but now totally decayed.
Página 37 - Hangs menacing, crops his delicious bane, Nor knows the price is life; with envious eye His labouring yoke-fellow beholds his plight, And deems him blest, while on his languid neck In solemn sloth he tugs...
Página 12 - A CONTEMPLATIVE MAN Is a scholar in this great university the world; and the same his book and study. He cloisters not his meditations in the narrow darkness of a room, but sends them abroad with his eyes, and his brain travels with his feet. He looks upon man from a high tower, and sees him trulier at this distance in his infirmities and poorness. He scorns to mix himself in men's actions...
Página 28 - OF THE UNATTAINABLE The Books I cannot hope to buy, Their phantoms round me waltz and wheel, They pass before the dreaming eye, Ere Sleep the dreaming eye can seal. A kind of literary reel They dance; how fair the bindings shine!

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