A Tour in Quest of Genealogy: Through Several Parts of Wales, Somersetshire, and Wiltshire, in a Series of Letters to a Friend in Dublin; Interspersed with a Description of Stourhead and Stonehenge; Together with Various Anecdotes, and Curious Fragments from a Manuscript Collection Ascribed to Shakespeare

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218 ページ - What, sir! about a ghost ?" JOHNSON, (with solemn vehemence). " Yes, madam : this is a question which, after five thousand years, is yet undecided : a question, whether in theology or philosophy, one of the most important that can come before the human understanding.
135 ページ - Alma quies, optata, veni, nam sic sine vita, Vivere quam suave est ; sic sine morte mori!
150 ページ - Not stirring thoughts, nor yet denying right, Not spying faults, nor in plaine errors blind, Never hard hand, nor ever rayns [reins] too light ; As far from want, as far from vaine expence, Th...
29 ページ - Shakespeare, which was so damaged when discovered at a house of a gentleman in Wales, whose ancestor had married one of the Hatheways, that to rescue it from oblivion a process was made use of, by which the original was sacrificed to the transcript. Bound up with it is another manuscript tract, written...
270 ページ - For within the current of the ditch," he says, " there are erected in manner of a crown, in three ranks or courses, one within another, certain mighty and unwrought stones, whereof some are 28 feet...
30 ページ - I bought it for half-a-crown; and persuading myself that it maybe what it professes, I am very proud of the acquisition. Some of the poetry is very striking, though full of odd conceits, yet much in the manner of our great dramatist. His Journal, recording, like most diaries, the most trifling events, carries you back to the days of Queen Bess, and you are brought acquainted with things that history never informs you of. I know by this description I make your mouth water. Perhaps I may treat you...
197 ページ - Alfred the Great, AD 879, on this summit erected his standard against Danish invaders ; to him we owe the origin of juries, and the creation of a naval force. Alfred, the light of a benighted age, was a philosopher, and a Christian ; the father of his people, and the founder of the English monarchy and liberties.
29 ページ - Halheway whom he married, as well as letters to and from him and others, with a curious journal of Shakespeare, an account of many of his plays, and memoirs of his life by himself, £c.
29 ページ - ... the Catalogue, said to have belonged to a person lately dead, who had left, as I was informed, very little more to pay for his lodgings, which he had occupied for three months only. He was a stranger, had something eccentric and mysterious about him, passed off for an Irishman, but was suspected to have been one from North Wales. I bought two or three printed books, and one manuscript quarto volume, neatly written, importing to be verses and letters that passed between Shakespeare and Anna...
187 ページ - ... manner. But the most interesting portion of it consists of letters that passed between him, Sir Christopher Hatton, Sir Philip Sidney, Lord Southampton, Richard Sadleir, Henry Cuffe, &c. part of a journal, like most journals, carried on for a month together, then suspended during a period of four or five years; and memoirs of his own time, written by himself. Some of the items are uncommonly curious, as they give you not only the costume of the age he lived in, but let you into his private and...

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