Das Shakespeare-Problem kritisch erläutert

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Weiss, 1912 - 113 pages
 

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Page 75 - The charm dissolves apace; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Page 94 - ... when thou feelest thy purse well lined, buy thee some place of lordship in the country; that, growing weary of playing, thy money may there bring thee to dignity and reputation: then thou needest care for no man; no, not for them that before made thee proud with speaking their [thy] words on the stage.
Page 40 - My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Page 69 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Page 89 - And if your lordship will not carry me on, I will not do as Anaxagoras did, who reduced himself with contemplation unto voluntary poverty : but this I will do, I will sell the inheritance that I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue, or some office of gain, that shall be executed by deputy, and so give over all care of service, and become some sorry book-maker, or a true pioneer in that mine of truth, which, he said, lay so deep.
Page 64 - C'est l'échafaud avec lequel on a bâti la nouvelle philosophie; et quand cet édifice a été élevé au moins en partie, l'échafaud n'a plus été d'aucun usage. Le chancelier Bacon ne connaissait pas encore la nature ; mais il savait et indiquait tous les chemins qui mènent à elle.
Page 103 - Homo, naturae minister et interpres, tantum facit et intelligit, quantum de naturae ordine re vel mente observaverit ; nee amplius scit aut potest.
Page 8 - There is a Book of Poems, publish'd in 1640, under the Name of Mr. William Shakespear, but as I have but very lately seen it, without an Opportunity of making any Judgment upon it, I won't pretend to determine, whether it be his or no.
Page 95 - Eternall reader, you haue heere a new play, neuer stal'd with the Stage, neuer clapper-clawd with the palmes of the vulgar, and yet passing full of the palme comicall...
Page 90 - ... you to a more absolute, the other to a more gracious government, I assure your Excellency their lessons were so cumbersome, as if they would make you a king in a play, who, when one would think he standeth in great majesty and felicity, he is troubled to say his part. What ! nothing but tasks, nothing but working-days? No feasting, no music, no dancing, no triumphs, no comedies, no love, no ladies? Let other men's lives be as pilgrimages, because they are tied to divers necessities and duties;...

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