John Heminge and Henry Condell, Friends and Fellow-actors of Shakespeare, and what the World Owes to Them

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C.J. Clay & Sons, 1896 - 26 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 16 - ... who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easinesse that wee have scarse received from him a blot in his papers.
Pàgina 16 - ... where (before) you were abus'd with diverse stolne and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealthes of injurious impostors that expos'd them ; even those are now offer'd to your view cur'd and perfect of their limbes, and all the rest absolute in their numbers as he conceived them; who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it.
Pàgina 15 - We have but collected them, and done an office to the dead to procure his orphanes guardians; without ambition either of selfe-profit or fame, onely to keepe the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive, as was our Shakespeare, by humble offer of his playes to your most noble patronage.
Pàgina 10 - That struts and frets his houre upon the Stage, And then is heard no more. It is a Tale Told by an Ideot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing.
Pàgina 10 - There would haue beene a time for such a word: To morrow, and to morrow, and to morrow, Creepes in this petty pace from day to day, To the last Syllable of Recorded time: And all our yesterdayes, haue lighted Fooles The way to dusty death. Out, out, breefe Candle, Life's but a walking Shadow, a poore Player, That struts and frets his houre vpon the Stage, And then is heard no more.
Pàgina 18 - If they had not volunteered in affectionate remembrance of their colleague to gather together the works of Shakespeare, some of the noblest monuments of his genius might, and probably would, have been for ever lost.
Pàgina 17 - Printed at the Charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smith weeke, and W. Aspley, 1623.
Pàgina 17 - Aldermanbury ; for wherever the manuscript plays were kept, the collectors would most probably arrange them for publication at their homes, as they lived so near each other.

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