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7 Sir Sidney Lee Quotes

Sir Sidney Lee offers a dry, scholarly voice that puzzles and amuses readers who enjoy witty historical musings.

Sir Sidney Lee quotes

  1. a purely literal interpretation of the impassioned protestations of affection for a 'lovely boy', which course through the sonnets, casts a slur on the dignity of the poet's name which scarcely bears discussion

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  2. I believe that the luxuriance of Shakespeare's dramatic instinct largely dominates that outburst of lyric melody which gives the Sonnets their life.

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  3. Discriminating brevity is a law of the right biographic method.

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  4. Reading is a wrestling with ideas greater than any we can create for ourselves. It has been said, a little extravagantly, that reading can get the better of most physical sufferings, all indeed save the pangs of hunger.

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  5. He had a splendid appetite at all times, and never toyed with his food

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  6. Shakespeare's relations with men and women of the court involved him at the outset in emotional conflicts, which form the subject-matter of his 'Sonnets'

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  7. Shakespeare avows, although in phraseology that is often cryptic, the experiences of his own heart

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