In Re Shakespeare's "legal Acquirements": Notes by an Unbeliever ThereinShakespeare Press, 1899 - 51 Seiten |
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In Re Shakespeare's "legal Acquirements": Notes by an Unbeliever Therein William C. Devecmon Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2005 |
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actions ex apparent APPLETON MORGAN attorney's attorneys Bankside Shakespeare believe Ben Jonson Castle Castle's clerk collateral condition Comedy of Errors common law deed of gift DEVECMON dower dramatic dramatists England English fee tail Francis Bacon Francis Beaumont frequently Gray's Inn heirs forever Henry Inner Temple Inns of Court John Jonson judgment knowledge of law labor Law of Venice law terms lawyer legal expressions LEGAL TERMINOLOGY legal terms legal training litigation Lord Campbell masques means ment Merchant of Venice Mermaid Middle Temple Nash Nash's oath offi peare peare's plays pleading poets Portia pound of flesh profession prove real estate reference says scene sealed instruments Senator Davis Seneca Shakespeare Society SHAKESPEARE'S LEGAL ACQUIREMENTS shifting companion single bond statutes Stratford successive title taverns technical testament Thomas THOMAS NASH thou tion trade of Noverint tragical speeches trivial translator whole Hamlets word color written
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Seite 6 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Seite 50 - The slaves are ours : So do I answer you : The pound of flesh, which I demand of him, Is dearly bought, is mine, and I will have it: If you deny me, fie upon your law ! There is no force in the decrees of Venice : I stand for judgment : answer ; shall I have it ? Duke.
Seite 44 - Tarry a little ; there is something else. This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood ; The words expressly are ' a pound of flesh : ' Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh ; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice.
Seite 16 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger's heart -wrapped in a Player's hide, supposes he is as well able to" bombast out a blank verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Seite 34 - Then to the well-trod stage anon If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Seite 45 - Shed thou no blood ; nor cut thou less, nor more, But just a pound of flesh ; if thou tak'st more, Or less, than a just pound, — be it but so much As makes it light, or heavy, in the substance, Or the division of the twentieth part Of one poor scruple ; nay, if the scale do turn But in the estimation of a hair, — Thou diest, and all thy good's are confiscate.
Seite 6 - Souls of Poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?
Seite 15 - I will turn back to my first text of studies of delight, and talk a little in friendship with a few of our trivial translators.
Seite 41 - This kindness will I show:— Go with me to a notary, seal me there Your single bond...
Seite 15 - It is a common practice nowadays amongst a sort of shifting companions, that run through every art and thrive by none, to leave the trade of Noverint, whereto they were born, and busy themselves with the endeavours of art, that could scarcely latinize their neck-verse if they should have need. Yet English Seneca read by candle-light yields many good sentences, as 'Blood is a beggar...