An Inquiry Into the History, Authenticity, & Characteristics of the Shakspeare Portraits: In which the Criticisms of Malone, Steevens, Boaden, & Others, are Examined, Confirmed, Or Refuted. Embracing the Felton, the Chandos, the Duke of Somerset's Pictures, the Droeshout Print, and the Monument of Shakspeare, at Stratford; Together with an Exposé of the Spurious Pictures and Prints, Volume 1The author, 1827 - 254 pages |
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... thing for a man to defend a true cause by fabulous pretences . " That Shakspeare's family possessed no resem- blance of him , there is sufficient reason to believe . Where then was this fashionable , and , therefore , necessary adjunct ...
... thing for a man to defend a true cause by fabulous pretences . " That Shakspeare's family possessed no resem- blance of him , there is sufficient reason to believe . Where then was this fashionable , and , therefore , necessary adjunct ...
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... thing to have been imitated from another , without allowing that there is some unequivocal and determined similitude between the objects compared . - The truth is , that the first point of objection to this unexpected Portrait was soon ...
... thing to have been imitated from another , without allowing that there is some unequivocal and determined similitude between the objects compared . - The truth is , that the first point of objection to this unexpected Portrait was soon ...
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... thing else ; it is painted with white and black paint , a most sure sign of its having been done by the artist who painted the head , and more especially so , as it is impos- sible to imagine it to have been of " modern innovations ...
... thing else ; it is painted with white and black paint , a most sure sign of its having been done by the artist who painted the head , and more especially so , as it is impos- sible to imagine it to have been of " modern innovations ...
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... thing about the original picture . If , surmises like his are to be considered as valid , it would , also , be equally as much in character , to say it was painted by Taylor . In the advertisement prefixed to edition , 1793 , is stated ...
... thing about the original picture . If , surmises like his are to be considered as valid , it would , also , be equally as much in character , to say it was painted by Taylor . In the advertisement prefixed to edition , 1793 , is stated ...
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... thing else but nature ; as many instances of the kind , have been done , from the earliest period of engraving ; but , the exact time when it was engraved , can- not be told , as its first register is in the folio edition of 1623 . Mr ...
... thing else but nature ; as many instances of the kind , have been done , from the earliest period of engraving ; but , the exact time when it was engraved , can- not be told , as its first register is in the folio edition of 1623 . Mr ...
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admirers appearance artist asserted authenticity bard beard belonging Ben Jonson Boaden Britton Burbage Bust of Shakspeare canvas Castle Street certainly Chandos picture Chandos portrait character coloured copy Cornelius Jansen Ditto doubt drawing dress Droeshout's print Dunford Earlom edition engraved evidence exhibited expression eyes favour Felton picture folio forehead gentleman genuine portrait George Steevens Gerard Johnson give Gopsal hair head of Shakspeare Holder Holl honour immortal bard inscription Ireland Jennens John Jonson letter lines literary London Malone Martin Droeshout mezzotinto miniature Monumental Bust never nose notice observe opinion original picture oval Ozias Humphry painted painter person plate poet poet's portrait of Shakspeare possession pounds proved published purchased remark resemblance residence Richard Burbage sculpt seen Shak Shakspeare portrait Shakspeare's shew Sir Joshua Soest sold speare Steevens Stratford Stratford-upon-Avon supposed Talma taste truth Wivell Zincke Zoust Zucchero
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Page 76 - To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: Attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way.
Page 38 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow ; and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble with too much conceiving ; And, so sepulcher'd, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
Page 22 - Reader THIS Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut; Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life: O, could he but have drawne his wit As well in brasse, as he hath hit His face; the Print would then surpasse All, that was ever writ in brasse. But, since he cannot, Reader, looke Not on his Picture, but his Booke.
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Page 106 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 145 - I can now excuse all his foibles ; impute them to age, and to distress of circumstances; the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having, at least in one production, generally pleased the world, to be plagued and threatened by wretches that are low in every sense ; to be forced to drink himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery.