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Poetry, plays, history of Shakespeare.
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OT - Found on facebook - a Joshua Bell experiment
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A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the
violin; it... was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces
for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was
calculated that thousands of people went through the station, most of
them on their way to work.... more »
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into a TU[B] of water
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Larry Sterne (1713-1768) "author" of
_TristRAM Shandy_ & _The Sermons of Mr. Yorick_.
Hermes Trismegistus => Tristram-gistus => TristRAM.
Like Greene, Marlowe & Shakspeare Larry died suddenly
after a big meal. "In the end, he put up his hand,... more »
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Favorite "Shakespeare, Co-Author" Bloopers Part 6 ("praise")
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"Shakespeare: Co-Author" p175 compares these
lines from Titus 1.1.167-68:
...outlive thy father's days,
And fame's eternal date, for virtue's praise!
with these from Peele's Edward 1:
...worthie men at armes,
For chivalrie and worthie wisdoms praise."
Shakespeare often refers to the praise of... more »
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how high thy glory *TOWERS*
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Faustus: Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships,
. And burnt the *TOPLESS TOWERS* of Ilium?
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That these great *TOWERS*, trophies and schools Timon of Athens: V,iv
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TOPLESS TOWERS of Ilium
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Faustus: Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships,
. And burnt the *TOPLESS TOWERS* of Ilium?
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That these great *TOWERS*, trophies and schools Timon of Athens: V,iv
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"he never blotted out a line"
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"I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line."
"He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent fancy, brave notions, and gentle expressions..."
"His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him: 'Caesar, thou dost me wrong.' He replied: 'Caesar did never wrong but with just cause;' and such like, which were ridiculous. But he redeemed his vices with his virtues. There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned."... more »
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Child rowland to the *DARK TOWER*
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____ Sonnet 5
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For nEUER resting time leads Summer on,
To hidious winter and confounds him there,
Sap checkt with frost and lus[T]ie leau's quite g[O]n.
Beauty ore-sno[W]'d and barenes eu[E]ry where,
Then we[R]e not summers di[S]tillation left... more »
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