The Poems of ShakespeareBell and Daldy York Street, 1878 - 288 pages |
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... heavens . The stage was generally strewed with rushes , but on extraordinary occasions was matted . There is reason to believe , that when tragedies were performed , it was hung with black . Moveable painted scenery there was assuredly ...
... heavens . The stage was generally strewed with rushes , but on extraordinary occasions was matted . There is reason to believe , that when tragedies were performed , it was hung with black . Moveable painted scenery there was assuredly ...
Page xxxi
... heaven's just decree , That riot's child must needs be beggary . Are these the virtues that his youth did promise ? Dice and voluptuous meetings , midnight revels , Taking his bed with surfeits ; ill beseeming ' The ancient honour of ...
... heaven's just decree , That riot's child must needs be beggary . Are these the virtues that his youth did promise ? Dice and voluptuous meetings , midnight revels , Taking his bed with surfeits ; ill beseeming ' The ancient honour of ...
Page xxxii
... heaven , looks downward ; which makes him Appear so dreadful that he frights my heart : Walks heavily , as if his soul were earth ; Not penitent for those his sins are past , But vex'd his money cannot make them last : A fearful ...
... heaven , looks downward ; which makes him Appear so dreadful that he frights my heart : Walks heavily , as if his soul were earth ; Not penitent for those his sins are past , But vex'd his money cannot make them last : A fearful ...
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... heaven . " This epitaph ( as Malone observes ) must have been com- posed after 1600 , as Venetia Stanley , afterwards wife of Sir Kenelm Digby , was born in that year . 78 It appears to have been drawn up on the 25th of Fe- bruary ...
... heaven . " This epitaph ( as Malone observes ) must have been com- posed after 1600 , as Venetia Stanley , afterwards wife of Sir Kenelm Digby , was born in that year . 78 It appears to have been drawn up on the 25th of Fe- bruary ...
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... heavens did pierce , Where Homer's sprite did tremble all for grief , And curs'd th ' access of that celestial thief . " Sir Philip Sidney , who died in 1586 , was the wonder of his own age , and his laurels as a war- rior and a poet ...
... heavens did pierce , Where Homer's sprite did tremble all for grief , And curs'd th ' access of that celestial thief . " Sir Philip Sidney , who died in 1586 , was the wonder of his own age , and his laurels as a war- rior and a poet ...
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Adonis bear beauty beauty's behold Ben Jonson bequeath blood Boswell breast breath cheeks Collatine daughter dead dear death delight desire doth dramas face fair false fault fear fire flower foul Francis Collins gentle give grace grief Hamnet hand hate hath hear heart heaven honour John Shakespeare Jonson king kiss lips live looks Lord love's Lucrece lust MALONE may'st Memoir mind never night pale pity plays Poems poet poison'd poor praise Priam proud queen quoth Rape of Lucrece Richard Barnefield Shak Shakespeare shame sighs sight sing Sonnets sorrow soul Stratford Susanna Hall swear sweet Tarquin tears theatre thee thine eye thing Thomas Lucy thou art thou dost thou shalt thou wilt thought thyself time's tongue true truth unto Venus and Adonis verse weep Welcombe William William Shakespeare wind WITCH words wound Yorkshire Tragedy youth