Memorials of Shakspeare: Or Sketches of His Character and Genius (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Memorials of Shakspeare: Or Sketches of His Character and Genius

Which philology; and; philosophy can afford; especially since we know that the bard, partly from extrinsic Circumstances, and partly from the innate modesty of his nature, which? Led him to a very humble' estimate of his own merits, was prevented paying that attention to his productions which is now almost universally extended to every publication, however trivial in its subject, and insignificant in its style.

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Excerpt from Memorials of Shakspeare: Or Sketches of His Character and Genius

No Author has, perhaps, given rise to more extensive commentary, criticism, and persevering literary research than Shakspeare; and none

The very orthography and orthoepy of his name have become a subject of doubt, and have given rise to no slight controversy; though I am persuaded not only from the third signature to his will, which is indisputably written William Shakspeare, but from the following very curious document which has been communicated to me by Captain James Saunders, of Stratford-upon-Avon, who has with indefatigable industry collected a large mass of very valuable materials relative to the poet and his family, that the intermediate was very seldom written, and yet more rarely pronounced.

"Notices of the Shakspeare's taken from the Entries of the Common Council of the Corporation of Stratford, from their book A.

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