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This question must, then, be regarded as still open to discussion; but, assuming, for the nonce, that the Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies in a certain folio volume published at London in 1623 were written by William Shakespeare, gentleman, sometime actor at the Black Friars Theatre and a principal proprietor therein, we apply ourselves to the brief examination of another, somewhat related to it, and at least as complicated: the question as to the authorship of certain marginal manuscript readings in a copy of a later folio edition of the same works, that published in 1632, which readings Mr.

It had been sufficiently abused heretofore, he was glad to find it now so well appreciated, at least in Al-Kyris, though he had no intention of putting forward any claim to its authorship.

Verily, no man is a proph Enough, enough! for ours is a prerogative, a glorious calling, and the crown of barren leaves is costlier than his of Rabbah; enough, enough! sing we the praises, count we well the pleasures of fervent, overflowing authorship.

"I want to placard him as he did me. I've got it all written out here. Sabe?" She took from her pocket a folded paper, and spreading it out on the editor's desk, with a certain pride of authorship read as follows:

When the publishers' letter came it contained an offer of seventy-five pounds for the copyright of 'Margaret Home, twenty-five more to be paid if the sale in three-volume form should reach a certain number of copies. Here was failure put into unmistakable figures. Reardon said to himself that it was all over with his profession of authorship.

Ashmun in the Law School at Cambridge. I had been busy, more or less, with the pages of Blackstone and Chitty, and other text-books of the first year of legal study. More or less, I say, but I am afraid it was less rather than more. For during that year I first tasted the intoxicating pleasure of authorship.

The former plan was adopted by the plebeian authors, the latter by those of quality; just as in the time of Frederick the Great an aristocratic literature in the French language subsisted side by side with the native German authorship of pastors and professors, and, while men like Gleim and Ramler wrote war-songs in German, kings and generals wrote military histories in French.

Here, likewise, he was too late. Had he in youth but had leisure and patience to devote himself seriously to the work of the pen, he was confident he could have ranked with the leading members of the profession of authorship, with the greatest imaginative writers and philosophers.

Lawrence Fulkerson had some of March's verses in his pocket-book, which he had cut out of astray newspaper and carried about for years, because they pleased his fancy so much; they formed an immediate bond of union between the men when their authorship was traced and owned, and this gave a pretty color of romance to their acquaintance. But, for the most part, March was satisfied to read.

There was not a State in Europe that did not say to itself: "Good Heavens! what would happen if she attacked us?" But we were not such fools as to leave it at that. We soon produced the first page of the Bernhardian literature: an anonymous booklet entitled The Battle of Dorking. The Battle of Dorking had an enormous sale; and the wildest guesses were current as to its authorship.