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... Father — His Mother a Great Woman — Stratford Unconscious of the Immortal Child — Social Position of Shakespeare Of his Personal Peculiarities — Birth , Marriage , and Death — What we Know of Him— No Line written by him to be Found ...
... Father — His Mother a Great Woman — Stratford Unconscious of the Immortal Child — Social Position of Shakespeare Of his Personal Peculiarities — Birth , Marriage , and Death — What we Know of Him— No Line written by him to be Found ...
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... father and mother were both English , and both had the cheerful habit of living in this world . The cradle in which he was rocked was canopied by neither myth nor miracle , and in his veins there was no drop of royal blood . This babe ...
... father and mother were both English , and both had the cheerful habit of living in this world . The cradle in which he was rocked was canopied by neither myth nor miracle , and in his veins there was no drop of royal blood . This babe ...
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... father seems to dinary man of his time and class . have been an or- About the only was officially re- thing we know of him is that he ported for not coming monthly to church . This is good as far as it goes . We can hardly blame him ...
... father seems to dinary man of his time and class . have been an or- About the only was officially re- thing we know of him is that he ported for not coming monthly to church . This is good as far as it goes . We can hardly blame him ...
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... father and grandfather — the idea being that genius is inherited from the father's side . The truth is , that all great men have had great mothers . Great women have had , as a rule , great fathers . The mother of Shakespeare was ...
... father and grandfather — the idea being that genius is inherited from the father's side . The truth is , that all great men have had great mothers . Great women have had , as a rule , great fathers . The mother of Shakespeare was ...
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... father's head and speaks of the night and of the storm , an ordinary poet might have said : " On such a night , a dog Should have stood against my fire . " A very great poet might have gone a step further and exclaimed : " On such a ...
... father's head and speaks of the night and of the storm , an ordinary poet might have said : " On such a night , a dog Should have stood against my fire . " A very great poet might have gone a step further and exclaimed : " On such a ...
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GenerationSlaveryPrinciple Sacrificed to SuccessLincolns | 173 |
stealing ChildrenII The Days of YouthHis EducationChooses | 248 |
The History of Intellectual Progress is written in the Lives | 308 |
MartyrdomThe First to die for Truth without Expectation of | 395 |
BibleEstablishment of the Mosaic CodeMoses not the Author | 519 |
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Page 93 - John Anderson my jo. John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither ; And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi' ane anither : Now we maun totter down, John, But hand in hand we'll go, And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson my jo.
Page 296 - Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome? Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all, I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly. Approach strong...
Page 61 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Page 42 - This castle hath a pleasant seat ; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. Ban. This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his lov'd mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observ'd The air is delicate.
Page 295 - Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading bathing all...
Page 58 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 159 - ... and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Page 67 - I am dying, Egypt, dying ; only I here importune death awhile, until Of many thousand kisses the poor last I lay upon thy lips.— Cleo.