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William Shakespeare
bronze statue by John Quincy Adams Ward
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- United States
- 1870
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Not who you're looking for? Others named William Shakespeare: English playwright and poet (1564–1616) · Australian singer (1948–2010) · 1864 essay by Victor Hugo · American inventor and politician (1869-1950)
“What cannot be eschewed must be embraced”
“Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.”
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”
“Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and talk too much of Proserpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down. Aye, and Ben Jonson too. O that B. J. is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving the poets a pill, but our fellow, Shakespeare, hath given him a purge that made him beray his credit.”
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