Shakespeare's England (1910) (14780869012)

Identifier: shakespearesengl00win (find matches)
Title: Shakespeare's England
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Winter, William, 1836-1917
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Publisher: New York, Moffat, Yard and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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ayneither regard, nor even notice, the house inwhich Thackeray lived and died. The shop-keepers of old Bond Street may. perhaps,neither know nor care that in a house in thisstreet occurred the woeful death-scene of Lau-rence Sterne. The How Street officers arequite unlikely to think of Wills Coffee Houseand Dryilen, or Buttons ami Addison, as theypass the sites of those vanished haunts o( witand fashion in the days oi Queen Anne. Thelounger through Berkeley Square, when per-chance he pauses at the corner o( BrutonStreet, will not discern Colley Cibber, in wigand ruffles, standing at the parlor windowand drumming with his hands on the frame.The casual passenger, halting at the Tavistoek.will not remember that this was onee MaeklinsOrdinary, and so conjure up the iron visageami ferocious aspect oi the first greatShylock oi the stage, formally obsequious tohis guests, or striving to edify them, despitethe banter oi the volatile Foote, with diseourseupon the Causes o( Duelling in Ireland.
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6< v. ~ ~ WESTMINSTER ABBEY 113 The Barbican does not, to every one, sum-mon the austere memory of Milton, nor Hol-born raise the melancholy shade of Chatterton,nor Tower Hill arouse the gloomy ghost ofOtway, nor Hampstead lure forth the sunnyfigure of Steele and the passionate face ofKeats, nor old Northampton Street suggestthe burly presence of rare Ben Jonson, noropulent Kensington revive the stately head ofAddison, nor a certain window in WellingtonStreet reveal, in fancys picture, the ruggedlineaments and splendid eyes of Dickens. YetLondon never disappoints; and for him whoknows and feels its liistory those associations,and hundreds like to them, make it populouswith noble or strange or pathetic figures, anddiversify the aspect of its vital present withpictures of an equally vital past. Such a wan-derer discovers that in this vast capital there isno end to the themes that are to stir hisimagination, touch his heart, and broaden hismind. Soothed by the equable English climatea