Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements ConsideredJ. Murray, 1859 - 117 Seiten |
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... acquaintance with some of the actors , and being first employed as prompter , although he had hardly learned to read , he was allowed to play some very inferior parts himself ; —and that without any further training he produced Richard ...
... acquaintance with some of the actors , and being first employed as prompter , although he had hardly learned to read , he was allowed to play some very inferior parts himself ; —and that without any further training he produced Richard ...
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... from being so essential to the plot ) , Shakespeare's acquaintance with this author was pro- claimed by the panegyric of Polonius upon the new company , for whom " SENECA could not be too INTROD . ] 31 ELABORATION OF HIS PLAYS .
... from being so essential to the plot ) , Shakespeare's acquaintance with this author was pro- claimed by the panegyric of Polonius upon the new company , for whom " SENECA could not be too INTROD . ] 31 ELABORATION OF HIS PLAYS .
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... acquainted with the whole of his career . I must likewise admit that this assertion is strongly corroborated by internal evidence to be found in Shakespeare's writings . I have once more perused the whole of his dramas , that I might ...
... acquainted with the whole of his career . I must likewise admit that this assertion is strongly corroborated by internal evidence to be found in Shakespeare's writings . I have once more perused the whole of his dramas , that I might ...
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... acquainted with lawyers them- selves and the vicissitudes of their lives . Rosalind having told " who Time ambles withal , who Time trots withal , who Time gallops withal , " being asked , " Who Time stands still withal ? " answers ...
... acquainted with lawyers them- selves and the vicissitudes of their lives . Rosalind having told " who Time ambles withal , who Time trots withal , who Time gallops withal , " being asked , " Who Time stands still withal ? " answers ...
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... acquainted at Warwick and elsewhere . 66 " There never has been a law or custom in England to ' give a charge " to constables ; but from time immemo- rial there has been " a charge to grand juries " by the presiding judge . This charge ...
... acquainted at Warwick and elsewhere . 66 " There never has been a law or custom in England to ' give a charge " to constables ; but from time immemo- rial there has been " a charge to grand juries " by the presiding judge . This charge ...
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Seite 100 - No rightful plea might plead for justice there." " Hath served a dumb arrest upon his tongue." From the SONNETS. " When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past," " So should that beauty which you hold in lease." ' And summer's lease hath all too short a date." " And 'gainst thyself a lawful plea commence.
Seite 72 - Come, Pistol, utter more to me ; and withal devise something to do thyself good.—Boot, boot, master Shallow: I know the young King is sick for me. Let us take any man's horses; the laws of England are at my commandment. Happy are they which have been my friends, and woe unto my Lord Chief Justice
Seite 88 - vouchers, his recoveries: is this the fine of his fines, and the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt? will his vouchers vouch him no more of his purchases, and double ones too, than the length and breadth of a pair of indentures ?
Seite 41 - thou mak'st a testament As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more To that which hath too much." And again where the careless herd, jumping by him without greeting him, are compared to " fat and greasy citizens," who look " Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there,"— without pitying
Seite 43 - Bos. No, faith, die by attorney. The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause.* * So in 'Eichard III.,
Seite 38 - (Act ii. Sc. 2.) The following is part of the dialogue between Antipholus of Syracuse and his man Dromio, in Act n. Sc. 2:— Dro. S. There's no time for a man to recover his hair, that grows bald by nature. Ant. S. May he not do it
Seite 76 - she shall pay me her maidenhead ere they have it. Men shall hold of me in capite; and we charge and command that their wives be as free as heart can wish, or tongue can tell." He thus declares a great forthcoming change in the tenure of land and in the liability
Seite 94 - being made to talk like an English lawyer; but in ' Antony and Cleopatra' (Act I. Sc. 4) Lepidus, in trying to palliate the bad qualities and misdeeds of Antony, uses the language of a conveyancer's chambers in Lincoln's Inn:— " His faults, in him, seem as the spots of heaven, More fiery by night's blackness ; hereditary Rather than purchas'd."\
Seite 38 - fine and recovery ? Dro. S. Yes, to pay a fine for a periwig, and recover the lost hair of another man. .These jests cannot be supposed to arise from anything in the laws or customs of Syracuse; but they show the author to be very familiar with some of the most abstruse proceedings in English jurisprudence.
Seite 54 - Tra. Sir, I shall not be slack: in sign whereof, Please ye, we may contrive this afternoon, And quaff carouses to our mistress' health; And do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. This