44 Metaphors for shakespeare

That serene and radiant faith is the secret, added to matchless gifts of imagination and music, why Shakespeare is the greatest of men.

Furness's Variorum Shakespeare is the best for exhaustive study.

Witness his VENUS and ADONIS; his LUCRECE; his sugared Sonnets, among his private friends; &c. As PLAUTUS and SENECA are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins: so SHAKESPEARE among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage.

We have no space for long extracts; but a short illustration will serve to show that Shakespeare is the best translator of Plutarch into English that we have had.

Shakespeare was never Shakespeare till he fled from miserable Stratford, to become at once the friend of Sidney and Southampton.

Ribet set to work; but we may fancy his surprise as the superficial impasto of Zincke washed off beneath the sponge, and Shakespeare became a female in a lofty headgear adorned with blue ribbons.

Shakespeare was not simply a great genius; he was also a great worker, and he developed in exactly the same way as did all his fellow craftsmen.

Custom has made the visit to Stratford "a property of easiness," and Shakespeare is a safe no less than a rightful object of worship.

Perhaps we should find in this the gospel of a new Covenant in which Shakespeare would be the great teacher and leader.

Shakespeare was his continual study.

Spenser, too, uses the phrase figuratively in another sense, in the following passage,which may be one of those which Chalmers had in his eye, when, according to Lord Campbell, he "first suggested" that Shakespeare was once an attorney's clerk: "She gladly did of that same Babe accept, As of her owne by liverey and seisin; And having over it a litle wept, She bore it thence, and ever as her owne it kept.

of the first-named play, ("The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two Houses of York and Lancaster," to which Shakespeare was doubtless a contributor, the part of Cade being among his contributions,) we find him making Cade declare, (Act iv.

I complain of their forgetting that Shakespeare was a man; that he had moods, that he made mistakes, and, above all, that he knew his art was an art and not an attribute of deity.

His writings tend to show that this was his real conviction, as it was that of many others during the time when Shakespeare was little read.

" Shakespeare is, however, the mightiest master of the English tongue.

Our inimitable Shakespeare is a stumbling-block to the whole tribe of these rigid critics.

Then, his wrath gathering emphasis as he went on: "The longer I live the plainer I see Shakespeare was rightwhat fools these mortals be, and all that.

It is said Shakespeare was a bad actor; why do not his divine plays make our wise judges conclude that he was a good one?

For it would seem as if Shakespeare must have been a publisher, and have known the anxiety attendant upon the delay of an author not in high health to complete a work the first part of which has been put into the printer's hands.

It is quite plain that the freedom that Shakespeare valued was in fact freedom, not any of those ingenious mechanisms to which that name has been applied by political theorists.

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Shakespeare, indeed, was not the only violator of chronology, for in the same age Sidney, who wanted not the advantages of learning, has, in his Arcadia, confounded the pastoral with the feudal times, the days of innocence, quiet, and security, with those of turbulence, violence, and adventure[10].

There is no reason to think that Shakespeare was a philanthropist.

Winstanley absurdly ascribes the piece to William Wager, who flourished (?) when Shakespeare was a child.

Shakespeare is the poet of impulse, of the loves, hates, fears, jealousies, and ambitions that swayed the men of his age.

44 Metaphors for  shakespeare