Lowell Shakespeare Memorial Exercises on the Tercentenary Celebration of the Birth of William Shakespeare, Apr. 23, 1864Courier Office, 1864 - 51 страница |
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... centuries ago , has not yet yielded to the exhaustive research of even the minds of our day . Centuries may still further roll on , and his works will be as fruitful of the instruction and entertainment in which we delight , as they are ...
... centuries ago , has not yet yielded to the exhaustive research of even the minds of our day . Centuries may still further roll on , and his works will be as fruitful of the instruction and entertainment in which we delight , as they are ...
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... centuries has settled , and in a land where the remote ances- tors of most of us have been gathered to their final earthly rest . The commencement of this period will be at a time when the foot of no white man had ever trod the shores ...
... centuries has settled , and in a land where the remote ances- tors of most of us have been gathered to their final earthly rest . The commencement of this period will be at a time when the foot of no white man had ever trod the shores ...
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... century ? No : the springs of sorrow and of mirth lie close together . If we read the works of an author who excites in us a natural and healthy grief , we may be sure in most cases that he has a keen sense of the ludicrous . Dryden has ...
... century ? No : the springs of sorrow and of mirth lie close together . If we read the works of an author who excites in us a natural and healthy grief , we may be sure in most cases that he has a keen sense of the ludicrous . Dryden has ...
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... century , this large company is assembled to do honor to the memory of one who was born three hundred years ago in a land thousands of miles away . Although there are no peculiarities about Shakspeare which should give him any ...
... century , this large company is assembled to do honor to the memory of one who was born three hundred years ago in a land thousands of miles away . Although there are no peculiarities about Shakspeare which should give him any ...
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... century , since which time the glory of his fame and achievements has increased in brightness , and will do so for a thousand years to come . Mr. President , I congratulate the Committee on the entertainment of the day , which , in ...
... century , since which time the glory of his fame and achievements has increased in brightness , and will do so for a thousand years to come . Mr. President , I congratulate the Committee on the entertainment of the day , which , in ...
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Alderman appreciated BARTLET beautiful Ben Jonson Birth of Shakspeare called celebration character CITIZENS OF LOWELL classical Cleopatra clowns Committee common delight drama earthly England English entertainment ex-Mayor ex-State Senator exercises fame father favorable feel genius gentlemen H. G. F. CORLISS Hamlet honor Huntington immortal bard indecency J. F. McEvoy James JAMES DEAN JOHN justice King Lear labor ladies language literary Macbeth Massachusetts Measure for Measure memory Merchant of Venice Midsummer Night's Dream mind monuments nature Night's Dream noble occasion Oration ORIGINAL ODE Othello Otto Club perhaps person plays poem Poet present President productions Queen Elizabeth reader ROBERT PRINCE Romeo and Juliet Scene SENTIMENT Shaks Shakspeare wrote Shakspeare's words suit Singing spoken sublime suit every station taste Theatre thought Three Hundredth Anniversary Timon of Athens tion true valley Venus and Adonis virtue WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE wondrous writer
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Страница 27 - Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall: and that should teach us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will — Hor.: That is most certain.