The Praise of Shakespeare: An English Anthology

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Sir Sidney Lee

PREFACE

CONTENTS

SOME NOTES ON SHAKESPEARE'S REPUTATION

PART I "THESE THREE HUNDRED YEARS"

PART II "GOOD SENTENCES"

PART III "ROUND ABOUT"

TO MY VERY GOOD FRIEND, MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

INDEX

Transcriber’s Notes:

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

A complete list of corrections as well as other notes follows the text.

THE PRAISE OF SHAKESPEARE

AN ENGLISH ANTHOLOGY

COMPILED BY
C. E. HUGHES

WITH A PREFACE BY
SIDNEY LEE

METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON
1904

Richard III., III. i. 87.

Who is it that says most? which can say more
Than this rich praise,—that you alone are you?
In whose confine immured is the store
Which should example where your equal grew.
Lean penury within that pen doth dwell,
That to his subject lends not some small glory;
But he that writes of you, if he can tell
That you are you, so dignifies his story;
Let him but copy what in you is writ,
Not making worse what nature made so clear,
And such a counterpart shall fame his wit,
Making his style admired everywhere.

Sonnet LXXXIV.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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