Use shakespeare in a sentence
Sentences starting with shakespeare
- Shakespeare knew it well. [4]
- Shakespeare of Stratford was the author of the Plays and Poems, but the author of the Plays and Poems could not have been a butcher's apprentice. [5]
- Shakespeare of Stratford was reared in a house which had no use for books, since its owners, his parents, were without education. [5]
- Shakespeare died young--he was only fifty-two. [5]
- Shakespeare is drawn on more largely than any other, no less than eighty-eight selections being made from him. [6]
- Shakespeare was born in 1564, when Elizabeth had been six years on the throne, and he died in 1616, nine years before James I., of the faulty spleen, was carried to the royal chapel in Westminster, "with great solemnity, but with greater lamentation. [4]
- Shakespeare has put everything into his plays and poems, swept the whole range of human sympathies and passions, and at times is inspired by the sweetest spirit that ever man had. [4]
- Shakespeare could not create. [5]
- Shakespeare pronounced "Venus and Adonis" "the first heir of his invention," apparently implying that it was his first effort at literary composition. [5]
- Shakespeare sends him a poem just made, and as good a poem as the man could write himself. [4]
Sentences ending with shakespeare
- Howells wrote: "I wish you could understand how unshaken you are, you old tower, in every way; your foundations are struck so deep that you will catch the sunshine of immortal years, and bask in the same light as Cervantes and Shakespeare. [5]
- Then of Stratfordians who had seen people who had known or seen people who had seen Shakespeare? [5]
- The London to which Smith returned was the London of Shakespeare. [4]
- It delights me to speak of him in the words which I have just found in a memoir not yet a century old, as "the Warwickshire bard," "the inestimable Shakespeare. [6]
- The exigencies of the theatre account for much that is, as it were, accidental in the writings of Shakespeare. [6]
- But there was Shakespeare. [11]
- And that was Shakespeare! [4]
- He was a prime chess-player and an idolater of Shakespeare. [5]
- There has been only one Shakespeare. [5]
- Yes, sir, Adam himself has to walk behind Shakespeare. [5]
Short sentences using shakespeare
- On the Shakespeare side. [5]
- Shakespeare, or the Poet, 204-206. [6]
- William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway. [5]
- Shakespeare created nothing. [5]
- Read Shakespeare ourselves! [5]
More example sentences with the word shakespeare in them
- I say, "Boys, who was this man Shakespeare, people talk so much about? [6]
- The house in which Shakespeare was born is the Santa Casa of England. [6]
- Please read again what Lord Campbell and the other great authorities have said about Bacon when they thought they were saying it about Shakespeare of Stratford. [5]
- I am afraid we should get a good deal confused even in reading our Shakespeare if we did not look back now and then at the dramatis personae. [6]
- There is, as we have seen, a very old tradition that Shakespeare was a butcher's apprentice. [5]
- At Stratford there was by royal charter a Court of Record sitting every fortnight, with six attorneys, besides the town clerk, belonging to it, and it is certainly not straining probability to suppose that the young Shakespeare may have had employment in one of them. [5]
- I suppose Shakespeare was a sentimentalist! [11]
- The world still wants its poet-priest, who shall not trifle with Shakespeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act with equal inspiration. [6]
- And besides, Shakespeare uses his law just as freely in his first plays, written in his first London years, as in those produced at a later period. [5]
- He did not use the book, and did not need to; he knew his Shakespeare as well as Euclid ever knew his multiplication table. [5]
- When Shakespeare came up to London with his first poems in his pocket, the town was so great and full of marvels, and luxury, and entertainment, as to excite the astonishment of continental visitors. [4]
- During the past two years I have been reading through a group of writers who seem to me to represent about the best we have--Sir Thomas Malory, Spenser, Shakespeare, Boswell, Carlyle, Le Sage. [5]
- You have to turn back to Shakespeare for any talk of peasants and clowns and shepherds to compare with the conversations in this novel, so racy are they of the soil, and yet so touched with the finest art, the enduring art. [4]
- This is supremely true of Shakespeare, and almost equally true of Jonson and many of the other stars of that marvelous epoch. [4]
- I've heard it told by old Shearton at King's House, who speaks as if he'd stepped out of Shakespeare, and somehow I seem to hear him talking, and I tell it as he told it last year to the governor of the Company. [11]
- It takes ages to bring forth a Shakespeare, and some more ages to match him. [5]
- Plato comes nearest to being his idol, Shakespeare next. [6]
- I say not this to cry him clown; I find my Shakespeare in his clown, His rogues the self-same parent own; Nay! [6]
- The historians find themselves "justified in believing" that the young Shakespeare poached upon Sir Thomas Lucy's deer preserves and got haled before that magistrate for it. [5]
- I wondered if the youthful swains quoted Shakespeare to their ladyloves. [6]
- But Shakespeare and the rest have to walk behind a common tailor from Tennessee, by the name of Billings; and behind a horse-doctor named Sakka, from Afghanistan. [5]
- Among those in the party were Shakespeare, at that time 37 years old; Ben Jonson, 27; and Sir Walter Raleigh, 49. [5]
- The condition of the old house in which Shakespeare was born was very different from that in which we see it to-day. [6]
- The Baconians claim that the Stratford Shakespeare was not qualified to write the Works, and that Francis Bacon was. [5]
- Yet I apprehend that no person living has any personal regard for Shakespeare, or that his personality affects many,--except they stand in Stratford church and feel a sort of awe at the thought that the bones of the greatest poet are so near them. [4]
- Hence it came that Asquith, before the house-warming, knew as little about Farquhar Fenelon Cooke, the man, as the nineteenth century knows about William Shakespeare, and was every whit as curious. [9]
- Mandeville said further, that as to poetry, he did not know much about that, and there was not much he cared to read except parts of Shakespeare and Homer, and passages of Milton. [4]
- The reader can test this by taking up his Shakespeare after a thorough investigation of the customs, manners, and popular life of the Elizabethan period. [4]
- Also, he has synopsized Bacon's history--a thing which cannot be done for the Stratford Shakespeare, for he hasn't any history to synopsize. [5]
- It was long supposed that the autograph of Shakespeare in a copy of Florio's translation showed his study of the Essays. [5]
- Therefore, Shakespeare of Stratford must have been an attorney's clerk! [5]
- Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I am not feeling very well myself. [5]
- Shakespeare, I believe, speaks of royal ingratitude--he knew not commonwealths. [9]
- Its quite plain significance--to any but those thugs (I do not use the term unkindly) is, that Shakespeare had no prominence while he lived, and none until he had been dead two or three generations. [5]
- The plays of Shakespeare, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, and of all the dramatists, are a perfect commentary on the fashions of the day, but a knowledge of the fashions is necessary to a perfect enjoyment of the plays. [4]
- Enthusiastic admirer of Shakespeare, Byron, Goethe, he used to spice his conversation abundantly with quotations from these his favorite authors. [6]
- Next day William Shakespeare took out a license to marry Anne Hathaway. [5]
- After seeing the Shakespeare shrines, we drove over to Shottery, and visited the Anne Hathaway cottage. [6]
- She won't let Shakespeare or Milton be standards much longer. [11]
- When I read Shakespeare now I can hear them as plainly as I did in that long-departed time--fifty-one years ago. [5]
- The genius of Shakespeare lay in his power to so use the real and individual facts of life as to raise in the minds of his readers a broader and nobler conception of human life than they had conceived before. [4]
- By similar reasoning Shakespeare has been made a country schoolmaster, a soldier, a physician, a printer, and a good many other things besides, according to the inclination and the exigencies of the commentator. [5]
- The plays of Shakespeare did not escape the most bitter animadversions of the moral reformers. [4]
- Since the Stratford Shakespeare couldn't have written the Works, we infer that somebody did. [5]
- I bought books, sets of Wordsworth and Keats, of Milton and Shelley and Shakespeare, and hid them away in my bureau drawers lest Tom and my friends should see them. [9]
- Did he perhaps see Shakespeare himself at the Globe? [4]
- Comparisons, as Shakespeare said, are odorous. [9]
- It might be said of Motley, as it was said of Shakespeare by Ben Jonson, "aliquando sufflaminandus erat. [6]
- That is, he said he was a sea-captain; but he talked French like a Parisian, and quoted Shakespeare like Mr. Burke or Dr. Johnson. [9]
- It may be safely said that the English-speaking world and almost every individual of it are different from what they would have been if Shakespeare had never lived. [4]
- He never became rich, as Shakespeare did. [6]
- If Shakespeare had really been celebrated, like me, Stratford could have told things about him; and if my experience goes for anything, they'd have done it. [5]
- Also--quite uninvited--he would read Shakespeare to me; not just casually, but by the hour, when it was his watch and I was steering. [5]
- Which would you rather have been, I say, William Shakespeare or Sir Francis? [9]
- Stratford-on-Avon is not prouder of Shakespeare than Brampton of Miss Lucretia, and now she was come back, unheralded, to her birthplace. [9]
- If, as seems probable, the anthropological section of society manages to get round the curse that protects the bones of Shakespeare, I should like to see the dome which rounded itself over his imperial brain. [6]
- Byron made a poor business of it, and could not think of anything to say, at the last moment but, "Augusta--sister--Lady Byron--tell Harriet Beecher Stowe"--etc., etc.,--but Shakespeare was ready and said, "England expects every man to do his duty! [5]
- The standards of poetry are Shakespeare, Homer, Isaiah, and David. [4]
- For Writers of Playes, and such as have been players themselves, William Shakespeare and Benjamin Johnson have especially left their Names recommended to posterity. [4]
- A series of photographs taken in different years shows its gradual transformation since the time when the old projecting angular sign-board told all who approached "The immortal Shakespeare was born in this House. [6]
- I have a past that stinks to heaven, as Shakespeare says, and I am an outlaw of the one land which has all my soul and name and heritage. [11]
- He was in particular partial to the poets, could quote at will from Gay and Thomson and Goldsmith and Gray, and even from Shakespeare, much to my own astonishment and humiliation. [9]
- The ordinary price paid for a new play was less than seven pounds; Oldys, on what authority is not known, says that Shakespeare received only five pounds for "Hamlet. [4]
- If Shakespeare had owned a dog--but we not go into that: we know he would have mentioned it in his will. [5]
- There is but one Homer, there is but one Shakespeare, there is but one McClintock--and his immortal book is before you. [5]
- When we put on a play of Shakespeare they fall to studying it diligently; so that they may be qualified to enjoy it to the limit when the piece is staged. [5]
- The question is often asked, but I consider it an idle one, whether Shakespeare was appreciated in his own day as he is now. [4]
- We ran short of plaster of Paris, or we'd have built a brontosaur that could sit down beside the Stratford Shakespeare and none but an expert could tell which was biggest or contained the most plaster. [5]
- On the 27th of November (1582) William Shakespeare took out a license to marry Anne Whateley. [5]
- We the fashion of an hour, but France is a fact as stubborn as the natures of you English; for beyond stubbornness and your Shakespeare you have little. [11]
- If Shakespeare did not respect the laws of his imaginary country, and the creatures of his fancy, if Dumas were not true to the characters he conceived, and the achievements possible to them, such works would fall into confusion. [4]
- She knew nothing more about such things than her hostess did about Shakespeare and the musical glasses. [6]
- Nowadays, when a mood comes which only Shakespeare can set to music, what must we do? [5]
- I had my misgivings when I gave you the letter from Humboldt, asking that the post route from Indian Gulch to Shakespeare Gap and intermediate points be changed partly to the old Mormon trail. [5]
- An ingenious scribbler might imitate it after a fashion, but Shakespeare himself could not counterfeit it. [5]
- Do the young men, to any extent, join in Browning clubs and Shakespeare clubs and Dante clubs? [4]
- He smiled at me, and said, "Well, since you doubt my theories, let us come, as your Shakespeare says, to Hecuba.... [11]
- When Shakespeare was managing his theatres and writing his plays London was full of foreigners, settled in the city, who no doubt formed part of his audience, for they thought that English players had attained great perfection. [4]
- He was fiercely loyal to Shakespeare and cordially scornful of Bacon and of all the pretensions of the Baconians. [5]
- They won't be looked on then as the work of a "humorist" any more than we think of Shakespeare as a humorist now. [5]
- If Shakespeare had known him, as he might have done, he would have had a character ready to his hand that would have added one of the most amusing and interesting portraits to his gallery. [4]
- Not less forcible is the language of Shakespeare, as for instance, in 'Measure for Measure:' "'Why does my blood thus muster to my heart, Making it both unable for itself And dispossessing all my other parts Of necessary fitness? [6]
- On the sarcophagus is the epitaph, composed in Latin by Dante himself, who seems to have thought, with Shakespeare, that for a poet to make his own epitaph was the safest thing to do. [4]
- But the surmise is damaged by the fact that there is no evidence--and not even tradition--that the young Shakespeare was ever clerk of a law-court. [5]
- In another corner is a little shelf of books, among them two which I have studied constantly since you were put in prison--your great Shakespeare, and the writings of one Mr. Addison. [11]
- But for the inscription such a transfer of the bones of Shakespeare would have been proposed, and possibly carried out. [6]
- There prevailed an insatiable curiosity for seeing strange sights and hearing strange adventures, with an eager desire for visiting foreign countries, which Shakespeare and all the play-writers satirize. [4]
- They can speak in tongues; they can talk about the solar spectrum; they can interpret Chaucer, criticise Shakespeare, understand Browning. [4]
- Then we'll reply in the language of Shakespeare and Milton, 'Every Other Week; and don't you forget it. [8]
- I haven't any idea that Shakespeare will have to vacate his pedestal this side of the year 2209. [5]
- You are clear, I suppose, that the Omniscient spoke through Solomon, but that Shakespeare wrote without his help? [6]
- We have seen how Shakespeare mirrored his age, but we have less means of ascertaining what effect he produced upon the life of his time. [4]
- I said that his excellency should find me more cock-a-hoop with Shakespeare than with myself. [11]
- Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the solemn pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others. [5]
- But, besides that he wrote in the spirit of his age, Shakespeare wrote in the language and the literary methods of his time. [4]
- Dryfoos listened uneasily; he did not quite understand the allusions, though he knew what Shakespeare was, well enough; Conrad's face expressed a gentle deprecation of joking on such a subject, but he said nothing. [8]
- Homer could not have written this book, Shakespeare could not have written it, I could not have done it myself. [5]
- When a man has a passion for Shakespeare, it goes without saying that he keeps company with other standard authors. [5]
- There was a Hamlet probably, there were certainly Romeos and Juliets, on the stage before Shakespeare. [4]
- What influence Shakespeare had upon the culture and taste of his own time and upon his immediate audience would be a most interesting inquiry. [4]
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