Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . have lost their noses and ears in the pillory, according to their sentence. Byhis address, however, he soon contrived to reinstate himself in the favor of amonarch to whose pleasure the effusions of his muse had become necessary;and for the remainder of that reign he continued in high favor as a kind ofsuperintendent of the court reve
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . have lost their noses and ears in the pillory, according to their sentence. Byhis address, however, he soon contrived to reinstate himself in the favor of amonarch to whose pleasure the effusions of his muse had become necessary;and for the remainder of that reign he continued in high favor as a kind ofsuperintendent of the court revels. In 1617 he was appointed poet-laureate,with a salary of about five hundred dollars, and a butt of canary wine yearlyfrom the kings cellars. Want of economy, however, kept him constantly poor ;although, in addition to the royal bounty, he had a pension from the city. Hedied August 16, 1637, and was buried in Westminster abbey, where a hand-some tablet has been erected to his memory in Poets Corner, inscribed, 0rare Ben Jonson. Dryden, speaking of the great rival dramatists, says, Shak-spere was the Homer, or father, of our dramatic poets ; Jonson was the Virgil,the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakspere. 15C WILLIAM WILLIAM SHAKSPERE, the illustrious poet of nature, was born of a respecta-ble family at Stratford-on-Avon, England, April 23, 1564. His father was awool-comber, and of ten children the poet was the eldest. He was early re-moved from the grammar-school of Stratford, as business, and not learning, wasto form the employment of his future life ; but after being some time en-gaged in his fathers trade, he married at the age of seventeen. At this timehe unfortunately formed a connection with some dissipated companions, and ina thoughtless hour he accompanied them in deer-stealing, in the park of SirThomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford. The offence was again and againrepeated, and a prosecution was consequently begun against t
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