...i instruction in music books. Every line 72 (Shakespeare "For gain, not choirboy would know it. Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write Above a...But when your countenance fill'd up his line, Then lack'dl matter, that enfeebled mine.l In Spenser" indeed, we trace a mind constitutionally tender,...

...wherein they grew? Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write, 5 Above a mortal pitch, that slruc\ me dead? No, neither he, nor his compeers by night...familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence, 10 As victors of my silence cannot boast, I was not sic\ of any fear from thence. But when your countenance...

...thoughts in my brain inherse. Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew? POETRY QUOTATIONS 410 Was . Hazen (1. 1—6) 216 But when your countenance filled up his line, Then lacked I matter; that enfeebled mine....

...you, That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse, Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew? Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write Above a...astonished. He, nor that affable familiar ghost Which nighdy gulls him with intelligence, As victors, of my silence cannot boast; I was not sick of any fear...

...you, That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse, Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew? Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write Above a...of any fear from thence. But when your countenance filled up his line. Then lacked I matter, that enfeebled mine. They that have pow'r to hurt, and will...

...That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse, Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew? 5 Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write Above a...verse astonished. He nor that affable familiar ghost 10 Which nightly gulls him with intelligence, As victors, of my silence cannot boast; I was not sick...

...That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse, Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew? 4 Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write Above a...compeers by night Giving him aid, my verse astonished: 8 He, nor that affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence, As victors of my silence...

...you That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearsc. Making their tomb me womb wherein they grew? Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write Above a...astonished. He, nor that affable familiar ghost Which nighdy gulls him with intelligence. As victors, of my silence cannot boast; I was not sick of any fear...

...this in mind, in his sonnet 86, when he goes on from the 'proud full sail' bit to ask the question Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write, Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead? In short, this 86th sonnet provides a perfect paradigm of my thinking here. I believe that in it, within...

...Sonnet 86 describes the Rival Poet's overbearing behavior, which reduced Shakespeare to silence: Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead? Jonson's own writings, and his notorious remark "that Shakespeare wanted art," identify him as the...