Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
In Remembrance OF JOSEPH BROOKS YATES ESQUIRE, OF WEST DINGLE, LIVERPOOL, WHOSE RARE AND EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF BOOKS OF EMBLEMS FIRST ENABLED THE AUTHOR TO STUDY THEIR LITERATURE, THESE _Shakespeare-Illustrations_ ARE GRATEFULLY DEDICATED.
“I am the king, and thou a false-heart traitor. Call hither to the stake my two brave bears, That with the very shaking of their chains They may astonish these fell-lurking curs...
34. i. 1), made golden figures of the Basilisk, with its tail covered by therest of its body; so Otho Vænius presents the device to us. But Shakespeare, without symbol, names the desire, the feeling, the fact itself; he makes Cleopatra exclaim (_Antony...
9. CHAPTER II.IN the use of the word Emblem there is seldom a strict adherence observed to an exact definition,—so, when Emblem Literature is spoken of, considerable latitude is taken and all...
24. act ii. sc. 3, l. 189, vol. vi. p. 175), Ulysses declares,—If it be demanded why we do not give a fuller account of these constellations, we may almost remark as the fool does in _King Lear_ (act i. sc. 5, l. 33, vol. viii. p. 295)—“The...
22. CHAPTER VI.HAVING established the facts that Shakespeare invented and described Emblems of his own, and that he plainly and palpably adopted several which had been designed by earlier auth...
8. CHAPTER I.WHAT Emblems are, in the general acceptation of the word in modern times, is well set forth in Cotgrave’s _Dictionary_, Art. EMBLEMA, where he defines an emblem to be, “a pictur...
13. CHAPTER IV.MONUMENTS, or memorial stones, with emblematical figures and characters carved upon them, are of ancient date in Britain as elsewhere—probably antecedent even to Christianity it...
31. Act ii. sc. 2, l. 177There is an Emblem by Whitney (p. 131), which, though in some respects similar to one at p. 178 of the “PEGMA” by Costalius, 1555, entitled “Iron,” “on the misery of the human l...
33. act iv. sc. 2, l. 53, vol. i. p. 437),—“_Dro. S._ ’Tis time that I were gone: It was two ere I left him, and now the clock strikes one. _Adr._ The hours come back! that did I never hear. _Dro. S._ O, yes; if any hour...
21. Act ii. sc. 2, lines 32–35.“The wax here within nourishes the flames And the wax stifles them; how many names Who after a large gift and kindness shown, Get from the giver harm and scorn alone.”
28. Act iv. sc. 3, l. 475That epitaph as given by Shakespeare, from North’s _Plutarch_ (edition 1579, p. 1003), is almost a literal rendering from the real epitaph recorded in the Greek Anthology (Jacob...
32. CHAPTER VII.Emblems Miscellaneous will include some which have been omitted, or which remain unclassified from not belonging to any of the foregoing divisions. They are placed here without...
20. Act ii. sc. 2, lines 19–21.A motto almost identical belongs to an old family of Worcestershire, the Blounts, of Soddington, of which Sir Edward Blount, Bart., is, or was the representative; their motto is...
11. act ii. sc. 4, lines 68–74, 81–85, 87–91, vol. ix. pp. 207, 208, where“It was hang’d With tapestry of silk and silver; the story Proud Cleopatra, when she met her Roman, And Cydnus swell’d above the banks, or for The press of boats, or pride: a pi...
10. CHAPTER III.AMONG some warm admirers of Shakespeare it has not been unusual to depreciate his learning for the purpose of exalting his genius. It is thought that intuition and inborn power...
18. Act ii. sc. 9, lines 79–81.The opening of the third of the caskets (act. iii. sc. 2, l. 115, vol. ii. p. 328), that made of lead, is also as much an Emblem delineation as the other two, excelling them, in...
19. CHAPTER V.SHAKESPEARE’S name, in three quarto editions, published during his lifetime, appears as author of the play of _Pericles, Prince of Tyre_; and if a decision be made that the auth...
14. act v. sc. 2, l. 48, vol. iv. p. 596) to war, are also to be attributed“The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness; and nothing teem...
17. Act ii. sc. 9, lines 63–72.And Giles Corrozet in his “HECATOMGRAPHIE, C’est à dire, les descriptions de cent figures, &c.,”[91] adopting the motto, _War is sweet only to the inexperienced_, presents, in i...
7. CHAPTER VII.In Remembrance OF JOSEPH BROOKS YATES ESQUIRE, OF WEST DINGLE, LIVERPOOL, WHOSE RARE AND EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF BOOKS OF EMBLEMS FIRST ENABLED THE AUTHOR TO STUDY THEIR LITERAT...
12. Act v. sc. 3, lines 14–84, Cambridge edition, vol iii. pp. 422–25.“Sæpe manus operi tentantes admovet, an sit Corpus, an illud ebur: nec ebur tamen esse fatetur. Oscula dat, reddique putat; loquiturque, tenetque; Et credit tactis digitos insid...
2. CHAPTER II.15. Act ii. sc. 7, lines 4–9.And when the caskets are opened, the drawings and the inscriptions on the written scrolls, which are then taken out, examined and read, are exactly like the engravings and the v...
16. Act ii. sc. 7, lines 62–73.The Prince of Arragon, also, on opening the silver casket, receives not merely a written scroll, as is represented in Symeoni’s “DISTICHI MORALI,”—_Moral Stanzas_,—but what corr...
6. CHAPTER VI.29. Act ii. sc. 2, l. 158.“What’s this, what’s this? Is this her fault or mine? The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Ha! Not she; nor doth she tempt: but it is I That, lying by the violet in the su...
30. Act ii. sc. 2, l. 162.“What, do I love her, That I desire to hear her speak again, And feast upon her eyes? What is’t I dream on? O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy ho...
25. Act iv. sc. 1, l. 35.26. Act iv. sc. 3, l. 185. CHAPTER V.27. Act iv. sc. 3, l. 514. CHAPTER IV.3. CHAPTER III.1. CHAPTER I.