"Shakspere" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... be a flagrant presumption and a specimen of magnificent audacity for any man, but myself, to attempt, to give anything new about the personal and literary character of William Shakspere! ...
— Shakspere, Personal Recollections • John A. Joyce
... was not this a proof of heredity? Aunt Annie flattered herself on the Good Conduct prize. Mrs. Knight exulted in everything, but principally in the prospective sight of her son at large on the platform delivering Shakspere to a hushed, attentive audience of other boys' parents. It was to be the apotheosis of ...
— A Great Man - A Frolic • Arnold Bennett
... another evening they tried Shakspere. Miss Alicia felt that a foundation of Shakspere would be "improving" indeed. They ...
— T. Tembarom • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... Rolls of this period. It is to be wished he had published his book in two volumes, one of facts and one of opinions. He says that the earliest record of the Court Rolls of Wroxall[26] is one dated 5 Henry V. (1418). It is a grant by one Elizabeth Shakspere to John Lone and William Prins of a messuage with three crofts. (The same Rolls tell us that in 22 Henry VIII. Alice Love surrendered to William Shakespeare and Agnes his wife a property apparently ...
— Shakespeare's Family • Mrs. C. C. Stopes
... out, to uncover, one's true style; to lay bare one's self: how is this to be set about? Primarily, by experiment in the way of imitation, which is the commencement of all art. Every great artist—Shakspere, Beethoven, Velasquez, Inigo Jones—has started by imitating the models which he admired and to which he felt drawn. You must do the same. It is the surest and indeed the only way of arriving at one's ...
— Journalism for Women - A Practical Guide • E.A. Bennett
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