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" A gentler Shepherd may nowhere be found ; Whose Muse, full of high thought's invention, Doth, like himself, heroically sound. "
Shakspere - Page 23
by Edward Dowden - 1882 - 167 pages
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Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...again, which has these lines : "And there, though last not least, is A gentler Shepherd may nowhere be found ; Whose Muse, full of high thought's invention, Doth, like himself, heroically sound." This was Spenser's delicate way of suggesting the Poet's name. Ben Jonson has a like allusion in his...
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William Shakspere: A Biography, Book 2

Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...unless there had been born, eighty years after this battle-day, a direct descendant from him — " Whose muse, full of high thought's invention, Doth like himself heroically sound ;" § — a Shakspere, of whom it was also said — " He seems to shake a lance As brandish'd at the...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pages
...inn, the author of "Colin Clout" meant Shakespeare. " And there, though last not least, is jEtion ; A gentler shepherd may no where be found, Whose Muse,...invention, Doth, like himself, heroically sound." Malone takes unnecessary pains to establish that this passage applies to Shakespeare, although he pertinaciously...
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The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an Intirely ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 pages
...time away we drive, As children in a pageant play." " And there, though last not least, is JEt\on ; A gentler shepherd may no where be found, Whose Muse,...invention, Doth, like himself, heroically sound." Malone takes unnecessary pains to establish that this passage applies to Shakespeare, although he pertinaciously...
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Spenser: And His Poetry, Volume 3

George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 260 pages
...quill : Both did he other, which could pipe, maintain, And eke could pipe himself with passing skill. And there, though last not least, is Aetion ; A gentler...thought's invention, Doth like himself heroically sound. All these, and many others mo remain, Now, after Astrophel is dead and gone : But, while as Astrophel...
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Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies, Volumes 4-6

1845 - 410 pages
...1460 to 1527; and the names are spelt with the diversity here given, Shakspere being the latest. " Whose muse, full of high thought's invention, Doth like himself heroically sound ;"* — a Shakspere of whom it was also said — " He seems to shake a lance As brandish'd at the eyes...
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The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies, Volumes 5-8

Great Britain - 1845 - 570 pages
...about 1460 to 1527; and the names are spelt with the diversity here given, Shakspere being the latest " Whose muse, full of high thought's invention, Doth like himself heroically sound ;"* — a Shakspere of whom it was also said — " He seems to shake a lance As brandish'd at the eyes...
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 736 pages
...that RICHARD II. had been composed before RICHARD III., and to either or both of them the lines — " am — will abundantly apply. The difference in the character of Spenser's tributes to Shakespeare, in...
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The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently Discovered ...

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 1158 pages
...Malone refers the following lines to Arthur Golding ; i{ And there, though last not least, is JEtion 5 Leon. A call at 3 , Paul. It is yours; And, might...the old proverb to your charge, So like you. 't is Malone takes unnecessary pains to establish, that this passage applies to Shakespeare, although he...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Lays and Poems ...

William Shakespeare - 1855 - 1088 pages
...Richard II." had been composed before " Richard III.,'* and to either or both of them the lines, " * will abundantly npply. The difference in the character of Spenser's tributes to Shakespeare in 1591...
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