Lee, Shakespeare and a Tertium Quid

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C. Palmer, 1923 - 191 páginas
 

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Página 188 - Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands : so that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought ; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
Página 82 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 34 - Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, His private arbours, and new-planted orchards, On this side Tiber; he hath left them you, And to your heirs for ever; common pleasures, To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves. Here was a Caesar; when comes such another? First Cit. Never, never! Come, away, away! We'll burn his body in the holy place, And with the brands fire the traitors
Página 57 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault; because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil, than he excellent in the quality he professes : besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing, which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his ait.
Página 56 - With neither of them that take offence was I acquainted ; and with one of them, I care not if I never be...
Página 178 - 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...
Página 109 - Love's Martyr, or Rosalin's Complaint, allegorically shadowing the truth of Love in the constant fate of the Phoenix and Turtle.
Página 52 - Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned Chaucer ; and, rare Beaumont, lie A little nearer Spenser ; to make room For Shakespeare in your threefold fourfold tomb...
Página 174 - 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.
Página 56 - About three months since died Mr. Robert Greene, leaving many papers in sundry booksellers' hands : among others, his Groatsworth of Wit, in which a letter, written to divers play-makers, is offensively by one or two of them taken ; and, because on the dead they cannot be avenged, they wilfully forge in their conceits a living author ; and, after tossing it to and fro, no remedy but it must light on me. How...

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